Greetings Scholars!

Golson Media on behalf of SAGE Publications is announcing a writing/publishing opportunity, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Ethnomusicology to be published in 2016. This will be an A-to-Z perspective organized in the following categories:

Behavioral and Social Contexts

Genres, Broad Categories

Indigenous Music (By Region)

Movements (Organized actions of a group for political, economic, social purposes)

Music Cultures of the World (By country)

Musical Instruments (types, classifications, views and practices)

Practice in Ethnomusicology (Disciplinary practices, techniques, perspectives)

Social Issues (Topics of investigation and analysis)

Theory and Method

Each article will include the contributor’s name and affiliation in the byline entry. Dr. Janet Sturman, of the University of Arizona, is the General Editor project and will be reviewing submissions. If interested including receiving the full list of articles, article submission guidelines and sample article, please reply to [log in to unmask] with your CV and article interest(s). We are making assignments with a submission deadline of February 2, 2015.

SAGE Publications offers an honorarium of SAGE book credits for smaller articles up to a free set of the printed product for contributions totaling 10,000 words or more. Please note there are approximately 250 articles available for assignment, below is a partial listing of articles.  A complete article list is available upon request.

Partial list of articles available for assignment for The SAGE Encyclopedia of Ethnomusicology (Article title/word count):

Acculturation 3,600  

Biological determinism 1,300  

Capitalism (see also commodification) 2,600  

Celebration 2,600  

Change and transformation (approaches to) 1,200

Class (social class divisions, musical experience, general theories, specific examples) 1,200  

Collective Action 1,200  

Colonialism (see also Colonial and post-colonial studies) 2,400  

Concert Stage (World stage) 5,000  

Cosmology and mythology 2,800

Cross-cultural studies 1,800

Cultural Acquisition 1,200  

Cultural programming 1,100  

Employment, for ethnomusicologists (see also Ethnomusicology as Profession) 1,300  

Ethnomusicology as Profession (role in academia and society) (see also employment) 3,000 

Exposition (exhibits; see also tourism) 1,400  

Family (music making) 1,400  

Folklore 2,600

Games (music in play, video games) 1,200  

Generation (age groups, expectations, norms) 2,600  

Gospel Music 2,000  

Humor 1,100  

Immigrant and refugee studies 2,200  

Leaders (rulers, heads of state; specialists) 1,400  

Local Music (revalorization and revival) 1,400  

Lullabies 1,400  

Meaning and metaphor (see also Semiotics) 1,300

Museums (work in, curating for, establishing, role in discipline) 2,200  

Music industry 3,500  

Music, definitions of 2,000  

Native American (focus religious practices) 3,200  

Occupational roles 1,500  

Oral history 3,300  

Participant Observation (modern perspective on) 2,500

Performance Studies 1,800

Propaganda 1,000

Proverbs (about music) 1,400  

Public Policy 1,400  

Public sector ethnomusicology 1,300  

Punishment 1,300  

Race and music 2,500  

Rural (aspects of rural musical experience shared across cultures; See also "Urban") 2,400 Self-determination 1,300  

Social Movements (music serving or inspired by; spectrum of examples) 3,000  

Status (of musicians; music as means of marking) 1,600  

Storytelling (epic, oral transmission, bards) 4,000  

Taoism 2,800

Television 3,100

Theater, musical 4,200  

Theatrical (local and global) 4,100  

Tourism and music 2,400  

Urban (aspects of urban musical experience shared across cultures; See also "Rural") 3,000

Thank you for your time and consideration. Please let me know if I can provide any additional information.

Joanne Steinberg