CFP GLI SPAZI DELLA MUSICA

«Gli spazi della musica» is a biannual online journal published by the Università degli Studi di Torino, Department of Humanities (StudiUm), based on a process of double blind peer-reviewing (ISSN 2240-7944).
http://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/spazidellamusica/index [select English Language]
The editorial board actively encourages authors to submit contributions for the forthcoming issues (2017, no 1 and no 2), for both sections of the journal.
Ricercari:
Ricercari is a series of free papers on basic topics of music studies.
Therefore, the editorial board invites authors to submit essays about any aspect of musicological and comparative research.
Variazioni:
Variazioni is a series of papers on a given topic. Topic for 2017 is related to the University of Torino’s research line #hackUniTO for Ageing, aimed at promoting the research on senility. Therefore, the editorial board of «Gli spazi della musica» encourages authors to
submit contributions about:
Music between youth and senility
Possible but not exclusive topics could be:

• Representations and portrayals of childhood, youth, senility and ageing through music theatre and music.
• Late style vs young style.
• Representation of old age in mythology and its musical adaptation.
• Musical myths of origins and birth.
• The relationship between new and old, as well as between originality and conservation in music.
• New music and the processes of music ageing.
• Ageing as either peak or downfall (or decadentism), through life and art.
• Music prodigies and their development, both in composition and performance.
• New and old music cultures: relationships, frictions and coexistences.
• Sociology of musical youth and ageing.
• Musical anthropology between youth, senility and ageing.

Deadlines for all types of contributions (Ricercari and Variazioni), written according to the Author guidelines published on the website and provided with a 600-character abstract:
January 10, 2017 for the first issue;
June 15, 2017 for the second issue.
Papers must be submitted to:
glispazidellamusica.studium@unito.it
Supported languages are Italian, English, French, German, and Spanish.

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