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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Hello all (with the usual apologies for cross-posting),<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">As the incoming editors for Popular Music History Journal, we are seeking
a new Reviews Editor for the journal. The current editor Andy Linehan has
chosen to step down from the role after many years, and we thank him for all
his hard and excellent work. If you would like to take on this position, please
send a CV and a short (2-300 word) statement on your experience in this area to
<span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><a href="mailto:Catherine.strong@rmit.edu.au" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">Catherine.strong@rmit.edu.au</a></span>
by August 20 (or email if you have any queries about the role).<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">We are also actively seeking content for the journal, and would
like to invite scholars working on any aspects of popular music’s past to
submit their work. While any historical articles are very welcome, we are also
working to emphasise the following areas in the journal, and are interested in
either single papers or ideas for special issues on the following topics:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Histories
outside the Western canon<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">While the histories of the bands and scenes that are central to
the Anglophone music canon have been extensively analysed, popular music
histories beyond this are increasingly coming to light, and offer new and
challenging ways to think about the effects of popular music. We welcome
submissions from scholars working outside the Anglophone world, and also those focusing
on narratives emerging from within that give voice to hidden, alternative and
counter-histories.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Fan
voices/perspectives<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">The growth of DIY archives and museums, and the increasing use of
social media to circulate historical artefacts and facilitate discussions among
fans of popular music mean there has been a growth in ‘bottom up’ materials
available to scholars studying popular music histories, both in terms of what
is preserved/circulated and the processes by which this happens. We would
encourage scholars working in this area, and those using methodologies that
privilege the voices of fans in various ways, to publish with us.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Institutional
histories<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">We welcome papers that continue the journal’s interests in how
cities, regions and nations construct and display popular music histories, and
industrial, state and fan agendas. For example, the Victorian state Government
in Australia has established the Australian Music Vault as an institutional
archive and digital participatory space. We would envisage these sort of
landmark events across the globe to be worthy of special issues as well as one-off
papers.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">History,
archiving and material culture<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">While the journal has aired particular articles on contemporary
archiving, we would like to continue this tradition, in exploring further the
material constraints of ‘completist’ music archives, and the relationships/differences
in amateur and ‘official’ archiving. Papers that explore music’s role in
debates about popular culture in this space, in terms of practices,
philosophies and agendas, are of particular interest.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;page-break-after:avoid;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Proactive
responses to events<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;page-break-after:avoid;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Music heritage debates regularly occur in the mainstream media. As
editors, we believe it is imperative to be responsive to contemporary events
(e.g. musician deaths or events such as the Manchester bombing or Punk 40 event
in London) and construct special issues in as real time as possible in
relation. Proposals along these lines are very welcome.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Please contact us if you have any ideas for special issues, or if
you would like to see if a paper you have would be suited to the journal. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Finally, we would like to acknowledge the many years of hard work
and dedication that Dave Laing, the outgoing editor, has put into this journal.
We will do our best to live up to his fine example.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Yours truly,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Shane Homan (<span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><a href="mailto:shane.homan@monash.edu" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">shane.homan@monash.edu</a></span>)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Catherine Strong (<a href="mailto:Catherine.strong@rmit.edu.au">Catherine.strong@rmit.edu.au</a>)<span></span></span></p>
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