CALL FOR PAPERS
The Future of Sound Studies (special issue of the journal Music,
Sound, and the Moving Image)
Editors: Jay Beck and Tony 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 revised deadline for these submissions is 1 June 2008.
Please send queries to:
Jay Beck: jbeck4_at_depaul.edu; and Tony Grajeda:
agrajeda_at_pegasus.cc.ucf.edu
Music, Sound, and the Moving Image 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
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: journal_at_liv.ac.uk
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Iain Robert Smith
Institute of Film and Television
School of American and Canadian Studies
University of Nottingham
University Park
NG7 2RD
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