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Music, Sound, and the Moving Image (ISSN 1753-0768) is the first international scholarly journal devoted to the
study of the interaction between music and sound with the entirety of moving image media
- film, television, music video, advertising, computer games, mixed-media installation, digital
art, VJ-ing, et alia. Published by Liverpool University Press and co-edited by Anahid Kassabian
(University of Liverpool) and Ian Gardiner (Goldsmiths, University of London), the journal is intended
to be truly interdisciplinary, inviting contributions from across a range of critical
methodologies, to include musicology and music analysis, film studies, popular music studies,
cultural theory, aesthetics, sociology, marketing, sound studies, and music psychology. It is
hoped that the journal will provide an important focus for the similarly diverse and expanding
community of media music scholars. Issue 1 will be published in Spring / Summer 2007.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The journal is published twice a year, and articles (5,000 - 10,000 words) are invited on a continuous
basis for editorial consideration and peer review. Style guidelines are available from
the editorial addresses below.
MSMI is also committed to publishing English translations of important articles from other languages.
Proposals for translations are welcome and should include the name of the proposed
translator and the willingness to seek permission - we are also interested in receiving
recommendations of works that should be translated.
Deadline for Issue 2: June 22, 2007.
ALSO: articles are invited for two special themed issues, to be published 2008/2009.
A) The Future of Sound Studies Editors: Jay Beck, Anthony Grajeda
In his introduction to a 1999 special issue of iris dedicated to 'The State of Sound Studies', Rick
Altman announced that the academic study of sound is 'A Field Whose Time Has Come.'
Michele Hilmes, however, recently speculated that 'the study of sound, hailed as an
"emerging field" for the last hundred years, exhibits a strong tendency to remain that way,
always emerging, never emerged.' Although a good deal of scholarly work on sound has
emerged over the past few years, traversing several academic fields (film sound, radio,
audio technology, cultural analysis of sound, music studies), the current state of sound studies,
as Jonathan Sterne asserts, 'remains conceptually fragmented.'
This special issue of Music, Sound, and the Moving Image proposes to take up the challenge
of delineating the future of sound studies by inviting papers that not only pursue the theory
and history of sound as an object of study but also aim to articulate cross-disciplinary methodologies
and analytical approaches. We are particularly interested in essays that address
such topics as: the relationship between film sound studies and sound studies; defining
"sound culture studies" and the shift to cultural contexts; the formal and aesthetic dimensions
of sound; the medium-specificity thesis and disciplinary boundaries; theorising a history of listening
and subjectivity; reassessing the role of sound in film theory.
For this special issue of MSMI, the editors seek two types of submissions: full length essays (approximately
7500 words) and short position papers (1000-1500 words). The final deadline for
these submissions is 1 November 2007.
Please send queries to:
Jay Beck: [log in to unmask]; and Tony Grajeda: [log in to unmask]
B) Prequels/Sequels/Translations/Re-Invention Editor: Miguel Mera
Some possible ideas:
* Different composers or sound-designers working on film sequels - e.g. Jurassic Park, Harry
Potter, the Bond series, etc.
* Re-makes of the same film: King Kong (1933, 1976, 2005); Cape Fear (1962, 1991); Ocean's
Eleven (1960, 2001), etc.
* Remakes of films into a different language and cinematic tradition: Breathless from A Bout
de Souffle, A Fistful of Dollars from Yojimbo, City of Angels from Der Himmel über Berlin,
Twelve Monkeys from La Jetée. etc.
* Translation of films into computer games - e.g. Catwoman (2004), The Hulk (2003).
* Translation of games into films: Tomb Raider, Super Mario Brothers, Resident Evil, etc.
* Updating and arranging of TV programme theme music: e.g. (on UK TV) ITV News, Question
Time, A Question of Sport, etc.
* Translation of the same programme format from UK to US television: e.g. Cracker, Balllykissangel
to Hope Island, Birds of a Feather to Stand by Your Man, etc.
Editorial correspondence should be addressed to: Music, Sound, and the Moving Image,
School of Music, University of Liverpool, 80 Bedford Road South, Liverpool L69 7WW, or email:
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Books for review and review enquiries should be sent to Dr. Holly Rogers, School of Music,
University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Eire, or email: [log in to unmask]
For Subscription or advertising information call +44 [0]151 794 2234 or email: [log in to unmask]
On behalf of:
Elena Boschi
Editorial Assistant
Music, Sound, and the Moving Image
Liverpool University Press
Prof. Anahid Kassabian, Ian Gardiner Editors
Elena Boschi, Tim McNelis
Editorial Assistants
School of Music
University of Liverpool
80 Bedford Street South
Liverpool L69 7WW
+44 0151 794 3098
+44 0151 794 3141 (fax)
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