CfA: The Artistry and Business of Queen
Call For Chapter Proposals: The Artistry and Business of Queen
Deadline Abstracts: 31.10.2021
Dealdine full chapters: 31.03.2022
Following a successful online conference about Queen, which took place in May 2021, bringing together academic papers, interviews with industry insiders, familiar with Queen’s career and the band’s most dedicated fans, we aim at publishing an edited collection, devoted to Queen’s career, artistry, representation in different media and fandom. In particular, we seek proposals for book chapters, covering but not exclusively such themes as:
Music and lyrics of Queen’s songs
Technology, studio craft, instruments, and instrumentation
Live performance
Album covers/ Artwork
Queen’s relationship with video, cinema and theatre
Queen’s solo activities
Queen post Mercury
Queen’s reception in the UK and abroad
Abstracts (in word, not pdf) of no more than 300 words with a short bio should be e-mailed by 31 October 2021 to Tony Rigg trigg @ uclan.ac.uk and Ewa Mazierska ehmazierska @ uclan.ac.uk.
Full chapters by 31 March 2022.
Please feel free to view the conference with can be found here:
Part 1 https://youtu.be/CC-bMBz20kE
Part 2 https://youtu.be/BvdG-tNEYy4
Ewa Mazierska
Professor of Film Studies
Co-chair, Music Research@UCLan
School of Journalism and Media
University of Central Lancashire
Preston
PR1 2HE
Livesey House 110