[AMS-announce] CFP (essay collection): Pop Culture Tools in the Music Classroom

[Announcements for the AMS]

CFP

Pop Culture Tools in the Music Classroom

Authors are invited to submit potential contributions to an essay collection
on using popular culture in undergraduate- and graduate-level music courses.
The essays should focus on teaching and learning tools derived from popular
culture, and may also include generalized considerations of popular-culture
texts. The collection is intended to serve as a framework for course design
or as a supplementary text in either pedagogy or music classes. Approaches
concerning methods of using popular culture to address either art or
vernacular musics, from the disciplines of musicology, ethnomusicology,
music theory and analysis, and performance studies are welcome. Topics may
include, but are not limited to:

. electronic media such as mp3s and other digital audio; Ipod culture;
streamed radio . multimedia sources, including YouTube, music videos,
television shows, movies, soundtracks . videogames such as Guitar Hero, Rock
Band, Dance Dance Revolution, and others . online environments such as
Second Life . covers, versioning, parodies, mashups

Essays should be 6,000-10,000 words in length and conform to Chicago Manual
of Style guidelines. Authors will be responsible for acquiring any necessary
permissions for copyrighted materials included in their works. Text should
be submitted as Word files (.doc or .rtf format), with musical examples in
.tif, .pdf, .jpg, .gif, or .bmp format (.tifs are preferred).

The collection will be published by Scarecrow Press in 2010. Materials
should be submitted electronically to Nicole Biamonte at
<nbiamonte at gmail.com> by August 1, 2009. Please include:
1) a cover letter or message, including the author's name and essay title
2) an abstract of approximately 200 words
3) the proposed contribution, with author's name and other identifying
information omitted
4) a brief biography (50 to 100 words)
5) a current cv