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Apologies for cross posting: REMINDER: Call for Papers (Deadline 30th November 2015) I@J 6/1 (2016) New Directions in Music Fan Studies Edited by Dr. Koos Zwaan and Dr. Mark Duffett Popular music fandom has received widespread media attention since the early years of postwar music. Elvis Presley evoked strong fan responses and generated monumental opposition from “anti-fans”. “Beatlemania” shaped many young people’s experiences of the 1960s. Fandom is associated with specific cultural practices, from listening to records and making music, to paramusical activities such as wearing t-shirts, or collecting set lists, participating in fan media (blogs, fiction, graphics), or adorning one’s body with tattoos of band logos. The advent of social media has brought new possibilities for fan-celebrity interaction. Established cultures have taken new forms. For example, fan letters and fanzines have not disappeared but, rather, have transformed to exploit the possibilities of new media. Fandom has also taken on different meanings for pop musicians. Social media campaigns, crowd funding and ‘meet and greet’ online chat sessions have become regular practices for some artists. Their relationships with fan communities have been revolutionized. IASPM Journal, the journal of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, wishes to encourage further research and debate in this area with a special issue on new directions in popular music fan research, to be published in 2016. We invite papers that draw on popular music studies and fan studies to offer insights and perspectives on different forms and practices of popular music fandom. We are looking for a range of international perspectives from the different localities and cultures that IASPM represents. For this special issue, we are particularly interested in changes in popular music fandom and the new methodologies that studying this subject requires. Themes related to new directions in popular music fan studies can include, but are not restricted to: - Popular music genre fandom. - Popular music fandom and professional music making. - Popular music fandom and music in everyday life. - Popular music fandom and social activism. - Popular music fandom, celebrity and totemism. - Popular music fandom and mythology. - Popular music fandom and class identity. - Histories of popular music fan communities. - “Superfans” and media representations. - Fan response to tribute acts. - Popular music fandom and social media. - Unsanctioned and closet forms of popular music fandom. - “Anti-fans” of popular music. - Popular music fandom and taste cultures. - Race and popular music fandom. - Place, pilgrimage and fan identity. - Fan practices such as collecting. - Fandom, nostalgia and generational memory. - Fandom and the life cycle. POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTORS MUST BE MEMBERS OF IASPM. These authors are encouraged to submit a 300-word abstract including references, showing engagement with existing literature in both popular music studies and fan studies, by 30 NOVEMBER 2015 to: [log in to unmask] The submission deadline for articles will be 27 February 2016. Please register as an Author and submit online, ensuring you are a current member of IASPM Dr. Koos Zwaan (Inholland University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands) Dr. Mark Duffett (University of Chester, UK) -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------