POPULAR MUSIC AND SOCIETY

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Special Issue: "Popular Music in the Post-Soviet Space: Trends,
Movements, and Social Contexts"

Guest-Editors: Yngvar Steinholt, Tromsø University
David-Emil Wickström, University of Copenhagen
Mark Yoffe, George Washington University


Fifteen years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, popular music
is thriving in the former Soviet territories and covers a broad
variety of genres. Among these are rock bands formed in the Soviet
era, surviving legends of Soviet pop, and younger bands and
performers of the 1990s and 2000s. Local and foreign musics blend as
new impulses arrive from without and arise from within the region.
Thanks to the most recent wave of Russian emigrants, these popular
musics have also spread to various localities around the world, as
exemplified by the phenomenon of "Russendisko" in Berlin or the
Russkii Rok-Klub v Amerike (Russian Rock Club of America).

This special edition of Popular Music and Society aims to present
research on contemporary popular music (broadly defined) in the
former Soviet republics and their diasporas. A central issue will be
how the musical landscape has changed since the collapse of the
Soviet Union: What present trends can be observed? How has the
Soviet context influenced the popular music of today? How is music
performed and consumed? How has the interrelationship between
cultural industry and performers developed? How are nationalist
sensibilities affecting popular music and vice versa? What are the
future potentials and orientations of popular music in and around
this vast region?

Contributions are welcomed from researchers in all disciplines
involved in the study of popular music in the post-Soviet space:
popular music studies, ethnomusicology, Russian studies, literature
studies, culture studies, sociology, history, linguistics, folklore,
journalism.

Deadline for abstracts (maximum 600 words): 1. September 2007

Submission instructions: Submit abstract by e-mail to Yngvar
Steinholt at:

<yngvar.steinholt@...>

Tentative schedule:

1 September 2007: deadline for abstracts
1 September 2008: deadline for articles (must be in MLA format)
Spring 2009: special issue published

Journal websites: <http://www.niu.edu/popms> and <http://
www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/03007766.asp>

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david-emil wickström
phd-student
"transformations in russian popular music of the post-soviet era -
case study st. petersburg"
københavns universitet, denmark
www.ikso.net/~dew/phd.php