[Gandur] Call for Contributions for Puls No 4

[Rósa Þorsteinsdóttir]

Musik- och dansetnologisk tidskrift
Journal for Ethnomusicology and Ethnochoreology http://musikverket.se/puls

Call for Contributions for Puls No 4
Theme: To practise the traditional in the present time

Late modern societies offer different roads to contact with «traditional» cultural expressions. Some have access to family or local traditions, but many absorb traditional music and dance via education or media; the “traditional” is performed and experienced through both old and new channels. Generally, though, folk music today exists outside of the cultural frames where music and dance were performed before they moved to urban and global contexts.

The fourth issue of Puls aspires to examine what kinds of meaning traditional music and dance transmit today. Are the qualities purely musical or do they include some kind of nostalgia or ideas about another time and another way of life? Do they refer to the world today, or even something quite different? When old musical forms are performed, maintained and perceived, which kinds of knowledge and experience are necessary for performers and audiences in order to still be able to call the music or dance “traditional” or “folk”? Is it enough to replicate musical, textual or movement structures and create new material in “old” styles, or do you need to have knowledge and experience of the world/culture where the roots of the music are? What frames of reference do we have today? What perspectives on «tradition» can be found with contemporary performers and public? Puls does not seek normative answers but descriptions and analyses of how musicians and audiences today relate to traditional music and dance, and in what ways relations between «text» and context are in a process of change.

The special issue dedicated to this theme is planned as a section of Puls 4; the editors
also welcome other contributions treating more general aspects of ethnomusicology and ethnochoreology in present society. Guest Editor of Puls 4 is Hans-Hinrich Thedens, dr. philos. and

ethnomusicologist, Norsk folkemusikksamling, Nasjonal Library, Oslo, Norway Hans- Hinrich.Thedens at nb.no

Prospective authors are welcome to submit articles for peer review for the fourth issue before April 2nd 2018 to puls at musikverket.se

The extent of articles should be 10–20 pages (4,000 to 8,000 words). The editors welcome illustrations, sound etc., suited to the online format. Please use footnotes and the author-date system for references, and provide an alphabetical list of references. Submission Guidelines in English can be downloaded at http://musikverket.se/svensktvisarkiv/files/2017/03/Guidelines-for- authors-Puls-updated-March-2017.pdf

For further information, please see http://musikverket.se/svensktvisarkiv/puls and choose English language at the top of the page, or contact the General Editor at ingrid.akesson at musikverket.se 

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