CFP (journal articles): The Future(s) of Music? - Notions of Prospective Musics in Utopian Movies and Literature

Call For Articles
The Future(s) of Music? – Notions of Prospective Musics in Utopian
Movies and Literature

The famous Cantina Band scene from George Lucas’ Star Wars, featuring
an alien ensemble performing a foxtrott-like John Williams
composition, is just one of many examples: While film scores often
have provided an experimental ground for musical innovators – just
think of the trendsetting sound creations Oskar Sala and Bernard
Herrmann contributed to the late films by Alfred Hitchcock – diegetic
depictions of musical performances, i.e. those scenes in films where
the production or consumption of music is part of the story, often
draw on known musical idioms when the dramatic setting is explicitly
utopian. The paradox here is that there seems to be a decisive
difference between composing innovative film scores on the one hand
and imagining, picturing and sounding-out “the music of the future” on
the other. Or, is it futures?

Now that Holly- has been joined by Bolly-, Hallyu-, Nolly-, and
several other -woods from all around the globe, the Norient Academic
Online Journal (NAOJ) is looking for articles for its second volume
that address cinematic, theatrical / dramatic and / or literary
delineations of the future(s) of music and that pay particular
consideration to the specific positions, perspectives and artistic
strategies of its producers. NAOJ is looking for contributions that
reflect on the diversity of worldviews, on “aural imaginations” of
places, discuss markers of knowledge and power, or explore traces of
ethnocentrism, traditionalism, or parody in these various produced and
performed futures.

We also welcome ethnographic articles on popular musics from around the world.

Deadline for abstracts (maximum 200 words) is May 31st, 2012 and
should be submitted to
journal_submission at norient.com

For further information:
http://norient.com/academic/vol2/