CALL FOR PAPERS
Journal of Creative Communication
Special Issue on ‘Popular Music of Asia: Cultural
Perspectives’
The Journal of Creative Communication, a refereed journal
from Sage Publications, New Delhi, and Mudra Institute of Communications,
Ahmedabad (MICA), proposes to bring out a Special Issue on ‘Popular Music of
Asia: Cultural Perspectives’.
The domain of
Musicology has been traditionally restricted to western classical music.
Theorising on all other forms of music is, even today, seen as ‘ethno-musicology’.
The emergence of Cultural Musicology serves better, the purpose of analysing
music as creative expression across cultures and genres. It promotes
interdisciplinarity, without lines or demarcations.
Asia, despite
its almost infinite variety in popular music, is bound by common strains of
tonalities especially in the traditional music forms that also represent a
physical worldview. Yet, changes in lifestyles have impacted soundscapes in
ways similar to how changing architecture has impacted landscapes of Asia. In
that, the arts like music and architecture have also changed. Mediated
soundscapes reflect these changes and they cause the change too. Although
traditional genres still occupy the popular spaces, their functions, contents,
and contexts have changed. Creative behaviours of stakeholders have also
changed commensurately with respect to the temporality in technology, global
economic hierarchies, and market dynamics and spaces thus lost or created.
As another dimension of these changes, distinctions between
entertainment and aesthetics have blurred redefining aesthetics in terms of the
fulfilment of needs rather than the setting of standards. The needs and
meta-needs of people may be understood through the music they listen, but
economics of media sometimes suppresses true variables and neither is feedback
dependable nor the pulse of the audience truly gauged.
The umbrella of cultural musicology is vast enough to accommodate
scientific as well as philosophic approaches that bring to us newer understandings
of popular music. The forthcoming issue of JOCC invites cultural
anthropologists and sociologists, music historians and systematic
musicologists, theorists and empiricists, traditionalists and innovators,
zoo-musicologists and music archaeologists, among others to discuss their
cultural perspectives on any Asian form of popular music.
Research papers on the topic could relate to specific ideas given below
but not restricted to:
1. Soundscapes
2. Meta-musicology,
New Hybrid Spaces
3. The
Industrial Culture (including impact of Piracy, Muscle Power and Distribution,
and Betting)
4. Economics
of Popular Music
5. Popular
Applications
6. Inter-cultural
Communication
7. Change
& Innovation
8. Impact
of and on Traditional Music
9. Identity,
Policy, and Politics
10. History,
Education, and Psychology
Deadline for submission of Abstracts: 15th May, 2013.
Deadline for submission of Full Papers: 1st July, 2013.
Please submit an Abstract (200 words) and keywords (five) and profile of
author/s (50 words) together with full papers (5000-7500 words, including
references and tables).
For any further queries, please write to:
Adjunct Professor,
Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA)
OR
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