The Radio Journal:
International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media
Call for contributions
Special Number: John Peel, DJ, 1939-2004
The sudden death last month of the legendary BBC DJ and broadcaster John
Peel who for 30 years championed new music and artists on his shows for
radio stations in the USA, UK, Germany, Finland and globally (via the BBC
World Service, and latterly the BBC website broadcasts of his thrice-weekly,
regular BBC Radio 1 show) prompted an unprecedented outpouring of grief,
affection and appreciation from radio listeners, music fans and the music
and broadcasting industries in Britain and around the world. More than
30,000 e-mails from listeners and musicians were received by the BBC Radio 1
website on the day of his death; and two weeks later, thousands of regular
listeners, many of whom had travelled from outside the UK, attended his
public funeral on 12 November at St. Edmundsbury Cathedral, in Bury St
Edmunds, Suffolk.
As our own proposed marking of his extraordinary contribution to radio, to
be published in a special number in Volume 4 (2006), The Radio Journal would
like to invite submissions of original academic research into any aspect of
John Peel¹s broadcasting career. We especially wish to encourage articles
that would strive to go beyond historic details - familiar or unfamiliar -
of his career, and which would seek if possible to illuminate various
aspects of radio, the nature of the medium and broadcasting in general
through in-depth consideration of his important work and its effects.
The number will be co-edited by Journal editor Ken Garner author of the
official history of BBC Radio 1¹s support of new live music In Session
Tonight: The Complete Radio 1 Recordingsú - and Eric Rothenbuhler, Professor
of Communication at Texas A&M University, who has long had a special
interest in American music, and the record and radio industries.
The Journal would particularly welcome research on any of the following
(this is only an indicative list, other topics are welcome):
· The ³unpluggable² DJ: Peel, the music business, the promotion of the
new, and public service music broadcasting
· His effect on and relationships with global listeners and musicians,
via the BBC World Service, & more recently the internet
· Peel and the conventions of US format radio: his early career in US
radio, 1963-1966, on (successively) WRR & KLIF Dallas; KOMA Oklahoma City;
KMEN San Bernadino, California.
· Peel¹s place in the ³Pirate² era: ŒThe Perfumed Garden² 1967, Radio
London, North Sea
§ BBC Radio 4¹s Home Truths, documentary and magazine radio, and
notions of authenticity, sincerity and performance
· Peel, the Army and National Service: his relationship with British
Forces Broadcasting (BFBS) and its listeners in the British armed forces
overseas
· Peel the European: the impact of his shows for commercial stations in
Bremen, Helsinki, Berlin/Brandenburg, and elsewhere
Articles should preferably be written in English and between 4000 and 6000
words in length, complete with a 250-word abstract and up to six key words
for indexing purposes.
Articles should be submitted by e-mail MS word attachment no later than
September 30, 2005, to Ken Garner ([log in to unmask]) or Eric Rothenbuhler
([log in to unmask]). Earlier submission would be appreciated. We would
welcome receipt of proposed abstracts by January 31st, 2005, for intended
submissions, but this is not essential.
All articles will be blind peer-reviewed by members of the board(s). Please
follow the Harvard or included style of referencing. Numbered notes may be
used in addition where necessary, for example for archival sources and radio
broadcasts not readily accessible following original broadcast.
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The Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media is
published by intellect books in association with the Radio Studies Network,
the UK¹s association for researchers and teachers of sound broadcasting, and
is an academic, peer-reviewed publication for all those interested in
research into the production, reception, texts and contexts of radio and
audio media; including all structures, forms and genres of radio
broadcasting, while also embracing net distribution and audio streaming of
radio services and texts, CD-ROMs, books-on-tape, and sound art. The Journal
welcomes individual contributions from established and new scholars around
the world, including work and research in progress. Critical approaches are
invited from a range of scholarly disciplines across the humanities and
social sciences. Joint and/or inter-disciplinary submissions are also
encouraged. Original work on practice and production in the radio industries
is as welcome as theory formation. Pedagogical issues will be covered in an
annual feature on the teaching of radio studies.
Editor
Ken Garner Glasgow Caledonian University
Editorial Board
Carin Åberg Caricomm Konsult (Internet Agency)
Andrew Crisell University of Sunderland
David Goodman University of Melbourne
Michele Hilmes University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kate Lacey University of Sussex
Peter Lewis LSE (Associate Editor)
Enrico Menduni University of Siena
Caroline Mitchell University of Sunderland
Gail Phillips Murdoch University
Eric Rothenbuhler Texas A&M University
Sean Street Bournemouth University
International Advisory Board
Aggrey Brown University of the West Indies
Manuel Chaparro Escudero University of Malaga
Jean-Jacques Cheval University Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3
Hugh Chignell Bournemouth University (Reviews
Editor)
David Hendy University of Westminster
Stanislaw Jedrzejewski Lublin University and Polish Radio SA
Michael C. Keith Boston College
Jason Loviglio University of Maryland
Paul Moore University of Ulster
Paddy Scannell University of Westminster
Jo Tacchi Queensland University of
Technology
Tim Wall University of Central England
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