This call for articles which will result in the first volume and issue of the norient academic online journal aims to show the diversity of popular music throughout the world by focusing on popular music in a broad sense from outside the European and North American canon of popular music. This not only includes popular music from Asia, Africa and South America but also the popular music of immigrant communities throughout Europe and the world. Besides providing a geographically diverse overview of popular music another central issue for this first call for articles is a reflexive account of the ethnography itself. Here we are looking for articles which not only critically reflect on the material presented but also on the interaction between the researcher and the researched.
Articles can be submitted in any language the editors can read (currently English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Scandinavian, Russian, Dutch, Esperanto) but must include an abstract in either English or German.
Deadline for abstracts (maximum 200 words) is February 28th, 2011.
Please submit your abstracts to
journal_submission at norient.com
For inquiries regarding the journal you can contact the editor-in-chief David-Emil Wickström (dew at norient.com).
Tentative schedule:
By April 2nd, 2011: Decision if abstract is accepted
September 19th, 2011: Deadline for articles (maximum 6000 words, Chicago Manual of Style with the author-date system and endnotes)
December 2011/Early 2012: Articles published
