Call For Papers: Popular Music and Society

Eine spezielle Ausgabe des amerikanischen Journals POPULAR MUSIC AND SOCIETY untersucht Konstruktionen von Subjektivität in der Musik von Michael Jackson, mit einem Fokus auf Gender, Sexualität, Alter, Behinderung und Rasse. Für diese Ausgabe werden noch Beiträge gesucht: „Contributors are invited to address ways in which Jackson’s vocality, grooves, rhythmic invention, songwriting, conformity with and/or irreconcilability of generic categories, particular songs, song categories (such as ballads) or albums, record production, use of technology, and live or mediated performance work to produce his own, often spectacularized, subjectivities, as well as those of his listeners. We are interested in drawing together articles that engage in an interdisciplinary manner the myriad ways in which subjectivity is constructed in Jackson’s work: narratives of desire, healing, redemption, anger, violence, celebrity; engagement with world politics, charity; intergenerational relationships; the spectacular body in performance; illness as it impacted his music and performance; freakishness/the fantastic; challenges to hegemonic constructions of race, masculinity, sexuality, gender–to name only a few possibilities. Although we welcome contributions that employ a broad range of methodologies, including the development of new methodologies for the analysis of popular music, we intend that these essays address musical sound and sound related to text (lyrics), image(s), and dance directly. (…) We therefore see the need for rigorous scholarship into Jackson’s creative output, with specific emphasis on musical sound, the place where he, himself, arguably commented most explicitly upon the matters referred to above. Our vision is that this issue will include essays that range over Jackson’s long career, from his time with the Jackson 5 through his last studio album, Invincible, and final live performances, perhaps including the forthcoming film documenting preparation for his This Is It tour.
Essays (6-8000 Wörter) können bis September 2010 eingereicht werden mit akademischer Zugehörigkeit, Postadresse, Email.