Issues
ISSUE 1 – Volume 1, Issue 1 – February 2017
Guest Editor: Nicholas Gebhardt, Birmingham City University (UK)
“Here are mutes, liquids, aspirates – vowels, semivowels and consonants. Now we see that words have not only a definition and possibly a connotation, but also the felt quality of their own kind of sound.” (Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook).
ISSUE 2 – Volume 1, Issue 2 – October 2017
Guest Editor: Simon Barber, Birmingham City University (UK)
A song can be about anything
About peace or war, or the sins of industry
Or the discontents of fame, or of obscurity
Or how we first met, on the warmest day
And how I hadn’t planned to love someone until you came
Or how we survived on happiness and sleeping on the floor
Or how you used to love me but you don’t even know me anymore
– Dan Wilson, ‘A Song Can Be About Anything’ from Love Without Fear
ISSUE 3 – Volume 2, Issue 1 – July 2018
Guest Editor: Laura Snapes, Deputy Music Editor, The Guardian (UK)
“There is nothing wrong with hating rock critics” – Of Montreal, 2003
ISSUE 4 – Volume 2, Issue 2 – December 2018
Guest Editor: Dr Simon Jones, Middlesex University (UK)
“Playing MUSIC, for me right, it gets some heads together…gets a little TRIBAL thing going on, you know. Get the FREQUENCY up…..Everybody’s on the frequency. It’s always been about that…and EXCITING people and changing their frequency“, Robbo Dread, Birmingham, 2017
ISSUE 5 – Volume 3, Issue 1 – April 2019
Guest Editor: Nicholas Gebhardt Birmingham City University (UK)
In partnership with Ideas of Noise festival, Birmingham.
ISSUE 6 – Volume 3, Issue 2 – November 2019
Issue Editors: Craig Hamilton and Sarah Raine
The fiesta was really started. It kept up day and night for seven days. The dancing kept up, the drinking kept up, the noise went on. The things that happened could only have happened during a fiesta. Everything became quite unreal finally and it seemed as though nothing could have any consequences. It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta. All during the fiesta you had the feeling, even when it was quiet, that you had to shout any remark to make it heard. It was the same feeling about any action. It was a fiesta and it went on for seven days. – The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway.
ISSUE 7 – Volume 4, Issue 1 – July 2020
Guest Editor: Edmund Hunt, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (UK)
’Technology is something I love and hate at the same time. One one hand the absence of any kind of technology means silence (or an environment of natural sounds which we hear much clearer because of the general silence); on the other hand, you need technology to make art’. – Christina Kubisch, ‘Artists’ Statements II: Christina Kubisch’, in The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music, ed. by Nick Collins and Julio d’Escriván, 2nd edn (Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 2017:176)
ISSUE 8 – Volume 4, Issue 2 – December 2020
Guest Editor: Edmund Hunt, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (UK)
ISSUE 9 – Volume 5, Issue 1 – August 2021
Guest Editor: Ash Watson, UNSW Sydney (Australia)
“Perhaps only imagination, in its full processes, can touch and reach and recognise and embody… There are many other kinds of writing in society, but these now—of past and present and future—are close and urgent, challenging many of us to try both to understand and to attempt them” – Raymond Williams
“Good prose is like a windowpane” – George Orwell
ISSUE 10 – Volume 5, Issue 2 – December 2021
Guest Editors: Shane Blackman and Rob McPherson, Christ Church Canterbury University (UK)
Autoethnographic and Qualitative Research on Popular Music