Put down the mince pies and step away from the cooking sherry. With one week to go until Christmas Eve, it’s probably a safe bet to say that most of us are already in the process of winding down for a well-deserved break involving Elf, Home Alone and eating and snoozing the days away.
But if you’re planning on using that time to get a head start on schemes, plots and projects for 2011, we’ve got a Christmas cracker of an opportunity for you.
Supernova Books, a new imprint of Aurora Metro, is seeking contributors for their forthcoming book, Women Make Noise, which will critically explore the past and present participations of women and girls within popular music.
Women Make Noise will critique mainstream representations of the ‘all-girl’ band to explore alternative accounts of ‘all-girl’ bands; to explore the complexities of creativity, identity, performance, aesthetics, politics, conflict and community at work in women and girls collective music-making.
The book will focus on the ways in which music can be used as a radical medium by women and girls in order to contest wider struggles – for instance, of nation, ethnicity, class, sexuality, gender, age and feminisms, highlighting how ‘all-girl’ bands offer the potential to question and transform society, culture, history and politics.
The book will feature informed yet accessible contributions from a variety of writers, and they want you to submit your proposals for chapters on women in musical genres including (but not limited to) rap and hip-hop, metal, punk, hardcore, rock, pop, riot grrrl, disco and electro.
Proposals should be approximately 500 words and include an outline of the musical movement, music-makers and individuals that you wish to focus on, highlight your personal connection to those music cultures and communities, and outline how you’ll engage with the thoughts, ideas and perspectives of the music-makers and cultural producers that you’ll be discussing.
Proposals should also highlight how the chapter will meet the overall ethos of the book and demonstrate your ability to write for a popular and specialist audience. You’ll need to submit your ideas to julia.h.downes@gmail.com, along with a 100-word author biography, by Friday 31st December.
More information here.
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