The Soundtrack
The Soundtrack (Journal)
The Soundtrack is a multi-disciplinary, double-blind peer-reviewed journal that brings together research in the area of music and sound in relation to film and other moving image media, including television, games and installations. A complex cultural, technological, industrial and artistic phenomenon, sound-with-moving image is a rich area for analysis, investigation and speculation. We encourage writing that is accessible to audiences from a diversity of intellectual backgrounds and disciplines as well as providing a forum for practitioners to discuss and describe their work. The Soundtrack's aim is to nurture this new and expanding area of academic investigation in dialogue with soundtrack producers of all kinds.
The Soundtrack is a multi-disciplinary, double-blind peer-reviewed journal that brings together research in the area of music and sound in relation to film and other moving image media, including television, games and installations. A complex cultural, technological, industrial and artistic phenomenon, sound-with-moving image is a rich area for analysis, investigation and speculation. We encourage writing that is accessible to audiences from a diversity of intellectual backgrounds and disciplines as well as providing a forum for practitioners to discuss and describe their work. The Soundtrack's aim is to nurture this new and expanding area of academic investigation in dialogue with soundtrack producers of all kinds.
We welcome research articles from graduate students, emerging scholars, junior and senior faculty, as well as interviews with practitioners, personal accounts and retrospectives on sound media.
Areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to: classical and contemporary film/TV/gaming soundtrack style, radio, recorded music, audio translation, sound and the built environment, musicology, storage media as cultural document, histories and theories of global sonic cultures, music/sound and politics, labour in the sound and recording arts, technology, audience studies, digital humanities, acoustic ecology, decolonizing sound media, sound ethnography, sonic mapping and cartography, artist profiles, teaching and pedagogy, as well as reviews of new or noteworthy books in the field.
Who we are
The Soundtrack is a multi-disciplinary, double-blind peer-reviewed journal that brings together research in the area of music and sound in relation to film and other moving image media, including television, games and installations. A complex cultural, technological, industrial and artistic phenomenon, sound-with-moving image is a rich area for analysis, investigation and speculation. We encourage writing that is accessible to audiences from a diversity of intellectual backgrounds and disciplines as well as providing a forum for practitioners to discuss and describe their work. The Soundtrack's aim is to nurture this new and expanding area of academic investigation in dialogue with soundtrack producers of all kinds.
Call for papers
We welcome research articles from graduate students, emerging scholars, junior and senior faculty, as well as interviews with practitioners, personal accounts, and retrospectives on sound media.
Areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
- classical and contemporary film/TV/gaming soundtrack style;
- sound and genre (horror/sci-fi/comedy/musicals);
- sound and music for the streaming screen(s);
- music videos;
- sound, music and streaming platforms (Spotify, Apple Music, etc.);
- sound art, installations and gallery curation;
- radio and the history of recorded music;
- audio translation (subtitles, dubbing, etc.);
- sound and the built environment;
- musicology;
- storage media as cultural document;
- histories and theories of global sonic cultures;
- music/sound and activist politics;
- labour in the sound and recording arts;
- exhibition technologies (Dolby, THX, IMAX);
- audience studies and audio fan cultures;
- acoustic ecologies;
- sound and the archive;
- decolonizing sound media;
- sound ethnography;
- sonic mapping and cartography;
- artist profiles;
- teaching and pedagogy in sound studies;
- reviews of new or noteworthy books in the field.
Deadlines
We are currently accepting articles for our next issue. Please submit your article to Dr Wright (benjamin.wright@uwindsor.ca) by 4 January 2022 for consideration. Articles submitted after this date will be considered for future issues of the journal. Abstracts between 300 and 500 words can also be sent for articles that are works in progress.
Editorial Board
Pwyll Ap Sion
Bangor University, UK
Martin Barnier
Université Louis Lumière Lyon II, France
Greg Booth
University of Auckland, New Zealand
Kevin Donnelly
Alvernia University
Wendy Everett
University of Bath, UK
Liz Greene
Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Guido Heldt
University of Bristol
, UK
Kathryn Kalinak
Rhode Island College, USA
Pamela Robertson Wojcik
University of Notre Dame, USA
Isabella Van Elferen
Kingston University, UK
John Wynne
University of the Arts London, UK
Charles O'Brien
Carleton University, Canada
Holly Rogers
Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Neil Verma
Northwestern University, USA
Carol Vernallis
Stanford University, USA
Timothy J. Anderson
Old Dominion University, USA
Paul Cote
University of Maryland, USA
Justin J. Morris
University of Toronto, Canada
Contents
- Volume (12): Issue (1)
- Cover date: 2020
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- Volume (11): Issue (1-2)
- Cover date:
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- Volume (10): Issue (1)
- Cover date: 2017
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- Volume (10): Issue (2)
- Cover date: 2017
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- Volume (9): Issue (1&2)
- Cover date:
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- Volume (8): Issue (1)
- Cover date: 2015
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- Volume (7): Issue (1)
- Cover date: 2014
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- Volume (7): Issue (2)
- Cover date: 2014
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- Volume (6): Issue (1)
- Cover date: 2014
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- Volume (5): Issue (1)
- Cover date: 2012
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- Volume (5): Issue (2)
- Cover date: 2012
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- Volume (4): Issue (1)
- Cover date: 2011
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- Volume (4): Issue (2)
- Cover date: 2011
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- Volume (3): Issue (1)
- Cover date: 2010
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- Volume (3): Issue (2)
- Cover date: 2010
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- Volume (2): Issue (1)
- Cover date: 2009
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- Volume (2): Issue (2)
- Cover date: 2009
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- Volume (1): Issue (1)
- Cover date: 2007
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- Volume (1): Issue (2)
- Cover date: 2007
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- Volume (1): Issue (3)
- Cover date: 2007
