The Soundtrack
The Soundtrack (Journal)
The Soundtrack is a multi-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that brings together research in the area of music and sound in relation to film and other moving image media. A complex cultural, technological, industrial and artistic phenomenon, sound-with-moving image is a rich area for analysis, investigation and speculation. The journal's aim is to nurture an 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. The Soundtrack's aim is to nurture this new and expanding area of academic investigation in dialogue with soundtrack producers of all kinds.
General Call for Papers
The Soundtrack also seeks proposals for guest-edited volumes, contributions to themed issues and article submissions for upcoming issues. The Soundtrack is a cross-disciplinary journal that brings together research in the area of sound and music studies in relation to film and other moving-image media. Drawing on a range of critical traditions such as film studies, media studies, musicology and cultural studies, as well as interactive and emerging media, the journal welcomes articles that address a diversity of topics and which contribute to the development of this increasingly important field of study. We encourage writing that is accessible to audiences from a diversity of intellectual backgrounds and disciplines as well as providing a forum for practitioners.
Contributions are invited on topics such as, but not limited to:
- histories of sound design in narrative cinema
- sound and music in video games
- mobile media and interactive platforms
- early film sound and music practices
- sound and music in television
- studies of composers and music supervisors
- sound effects and genre
- film music and emotion
- acoustic ecologies
- studies of noise, environments and soundscapes in media
- trends in audiographic criticism
- sound art
The Soundtrack's aim is to nurture this expanding area of academic investigation in dialogue with creators of sound and music of all kinds.
Please send proposals to editor Michael Filimowicz.
Full articles should be 6000-8000 words in length. All articles submitted should be original work and must not be under consideration by other publications.
For further detailed information regarding submissions please refer to the Notes for Contributors and Intellect Style Guide.
Journal contributors will receive a free PDF copy of their final work upon publication. Print copies of the journal may also be purchased by contributors at half price.
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
Southampton 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 (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
