CFP (edited volume): Sonic Contestations of Nuclear Power

SONIC CONTESTATIONS OF NUCLEAR POWER, EDITED VOLUME
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS

Noriko Manabe (Princeton) and Jessica Schwartz (UCLA) are preparing the edited volume, Sonic Contestations of Nuclear Power, which will consist of academic essays or personal testimonials of approximately 5,000 words, as well as creative works. We have already received commitments from a number of notable authors and creators, and we are looking for a few additional essays to round out the volume. Our preliminary table of contents has met with great enthusiasm from a university press. We have also received substantial funding from the Center for Human Values at Princeton University to host a workshop for contributors in late October 2015.

Over the last fifteen years, the growth of musicological scholarship on the Cold War, sound studies, and ethnomusicological accounts of violence and protest have formed a robust intellectual platform from which sound-based scholarship on the nuclear phenomenon can dialogue with extant literature from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Furthermore, the expansion of nuclear power and weapons has inspired musicians to write pieces protesting these developments or engage in debate. This edited collection includes critical approaches covering different historical moments, geographical regions, and conceptions of sound, music, media, and performance. We also aim to include practicing musicians’ voices, in the form of self-authored essays, compositions, or interviews.

We are open to many suggestions with a particular interest in French nuclear power, Native American communities affected by weapons testing or uranium mining, countries currently expanding nuclear power or weapons (e.g., North Korea, China, India, Pakistan, the Middle East), sonic responses to nuclear fuel reprocessing or waste disposal, and American early Cold War songs.

*If you are interested in contributing, please send a title, abstract of about 250–300 words, and a short biography to sonic.nuclear -at- gmail.com by June 12.*