CfA: Archives, Access, and Ethnomusicology (MUSICultures Special Issue Call for Papers)
CfA: Archives, Access, and Ethnomusicology
MUSICultures Special Issue Call for Papers
https://cstm-sctm.ca/publications/#journal
Deadline for complete manuscripts: March 31, 2024
MUSICultures solicits articles for a special issue on the theme of archives, access, and ethnomusicology. This special issue builds on the Society for Ethnomusicology pre-conference symposium held at the Canadian Museum of History as part of the SEM 2023 conference in Ottawa, Ontario in October 2023. We welcome submissions from participants at that pre-conference symposium, as well as researchers, both Canadian and international, working in the area of archives and access more broadly.
This special issue will be guest edited by Dr. Laura Risk (University of Toronto Scarborough) and Dr. Janice Esther Tulk (Cape Breton University) and is scheduled to be published in 2025.
The keywords that animated the pre-conference symposium theme – archives, access, ethnomusicology – are frequently used and generally understood. At the same time, their definitions are not fixed and can hold myriad associations. Through time and across contexts, it is important to reflect on what is understood and what is taken for granted when these words and concepts are evoked. What assumptions are at play, and how might differing assumptions lead to misunderstanding or miscommunication? What is the potential of – and what are the obstacles to – meaningful engagement with archives, access, and ethnomusicology (in communities, in archives, in academic spheres, etc.)?
This special issue on archives, access, and ethnomusicology will further explore and expand upon fundamental questions about how archives and collections are conceptualized, created, and understood. Through a variety of theoretical approaches and case studies, it will probe the boundaries of archives and examine access in contemporary contexts.
Of particular interest are papers expanding upon emergent themes:
post-curatorial practices and counter-archival initiatives;
decolonization, repatriation, and principles of ownership, control, access, and possession (OCAP);
ethics, relationality, and reciprocity;
experiential and autoethnographic methodologies with archival objects and the tensions between preservation and (hands-on) access;
arts-based modes of access, including new technologies and virtual/augmented reality;
collection, curation, and access in the era of social media; and
ontologies of the archive, including databases vs. archives, and archives and ephemerality.
MUSICultures is the peer-reviewed journal of the Canadian Society for Traditional Music / société canadienne pour les traditions musicales. It is published once a year under the auspices of the Society. Membership in CSTM is not a prerequisite for publication.
Articles are normally in the range of 6,500-8,500 words.
Please visit this website for complete submission details:
https://cstm-sctm.ca/publications/#journal
Please send article submissions to musicultures[at[cstm.ca.
The deadline for complete manuscripts for the special issue is March 31, 2024.