[Air-L] CFP: "Technologies and Recording Industries" (Creative Industries Journal, Fall 2015)

[Eric Harvey]

*Hi all, please circulate widely and direct any questions to myself or Kyle
at the below emails. Thanks!*

CFP: Technologies and Recording Industries
Creative Industries Journal, Special Issue 8.2 (Fall 2015)

*Deadline: March 6, 2015*

The past 15 years have proven transformative for music recording industries
around the world, as digital technologies from the ground up (mp3s) and the
top down (streaming platforms) have helped transform the landscape of
production, promotion, distribution, retail, and fandom. Yet while these
transformations have recently upended assumptions about musical practice
for artists, industry workers, fans, journalists, and researchers, a
broader historical perspective situates them in a legacy more than a
century long. Indeed, a history of recording industries told from a media
and technology perspective is one of constant flux. The introduction of new
media technologies has continually reorganized the practices, regimes of
value, discourses, and power relationships of the recording business.

This issue of the Creative Industries Journal seeks to address the
constitutive roles of technologies in shaping recording industry practices.
How have the introduction and adoption of new tools of production,
distribution, promotion, or consumption facilitated changes in the creative
and industrial practices surrounding popular music in a variety of global
contexts? Following Williamson & Cloonan (2007) and Sterne (2014), we
specify “recording industries” instead of “music industries” to focus
attention on the myriad creative and industrial processes related to music
(or, broadly, sound) recordings, and to evade the tendency to group a
variety of disparate music and sound-related industries (licensing,
instrument sales, live performance) under one heading. We use the plural to
assert the multiplicity and variety of recording industries that have
emerged over time, which may not have anything to do with the current
corporate-owned, multinational recording industry.

Possible topics for this issue include, but aren’t limited to:

   - Connections between technological formats and genres
   - Streaming services and music distribution
   - Discourses surrounding the vinyl record resurgence
   - Collectors and collecting practices
   - Record stores and the recording industries
   - New technologies and global/local regimes of representation
   - Music, technology, and identity
   - Industry practices of the digital music era
   - Trade papers and the recording industries
   - Media mobility vs. audio fidelity
   - Sound recordings and radio
   - Television and the recording industry
   - Failed or ephemeral formats
   - Re-issues and new formats
   - Record label histories
   - Technological experimentation
   - From cylinder to disk
   - Recordings as material culture
   - The history of personal recordings
   - Internationalization of recording technologies/industries
   - The recording industry and children’s media
   - Spoken-word phonography
   - Taste-making and technologies

To be considered for publication, articles should be between 5000 and 6000
words, double-spaced in Harvard Style. For more information on style and
formatting, please see Intellect’s style guide. All submissions in these
categories will be blind reviewed. Queries regarding potential submissions
also are welcome. Authors are responsible for acquiring related visual
images and the associated copyrights. *For more information or to submit a
query, please contact the issue’s editors Kyle Barnett
(kbarnett at bellarmine.edu <kbarnett at bellarmine.edu>) or Eric Harvey
(ericharvey at weber.edu <ericharvey at weber.edu>) All submissions are due via
email by March 6, 2015.*

Creative Industries Journal is a peer reviewed journal with a global scope,
primarily aimed at those studying and practicing activities which have
their origin in individual creativity, skill and talent, and which have a
potential for wealth creation. These activities primarily take place in
advertising, architecture, the art and antiques market, crafts, design,
fashion, film, interactive leisure software, music, the performing arts,
publishing, television and radio.


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Eric Harvey, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication
Weber State University
1395 Edvalson St.
Ogden, UT 84408