CfA: "Ethnomusicology and AI", Ethnomusicology Forum

CfA: "Ethnomusicology and AI", Ethnomusicology Forum

Deadline for expression of interest: 25 October, 2024

For the first issue of its 2025 volume, the journal *Ethnomusicology Forum* will launch an Editors Forum, a new feature that will collect short pieces of writing on topics of timely relevance to the ethnomusicological community.

For the inaugural forum, the editors are seeking short contributions (maximum 2,500 words) on the theme of ‘Ethnomusicology and AI’. Contributions can take the form of essays, think pieces, and position papers (among others); experimental pieces of writing are particularly welcome. The editors are keen to receive submissions from early career scholars, musicians, artists, activists, and public scholars, and from
contributors working outside of the UK and the US.

Topics might include (but are not limited to) the following:
  - Ethnographies of AI-based music making and AI-inflected musical scenes
  - Ethnographies of music-related AI software platforms and apps
  - AI and ethnomusicological fieldwork
  - The use of generative AI for ethnographic writing
  - The use of AI for music transcription and music analysis
  - AI and translation
  - AI and copyright
  - AI and ethics
  - AI in the ethnomusicological classroom and AI pedagogies
  - AI and institutional politics

Interested authors should submit an expression of interest in the form of a
300-400-word abstract by 25 October 2024. Please also include a short
(75-word) biography.

Abstracts and bios should be emailed to: efeditorb[at]bfe.org.uk

*Timeline*
Friday, 25 October 2024: Abstract and bio due
Friday, 15 November 2024: Decision communicated to authors
Friday, 17 January 2025: Full submission due