*CFP* "BLACK AND QUEER, MUSIC ON SCREEN", ISSUE 6.2, LIQUID BLACKNESS: JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND BLACK STUDIES

This special issue of liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies proposes to work on Black Queer expression in audiovisual musics cutting across histories of the avant-garde, popular audiovisuality, and frameworks both transnational and critically transhistorical. The goal of the issue is to set up the framework for a survey of Black and Queer musicality in audiovisual media so as to suggest “non-contemporaneous” dialogues between and across historical registers and media platforms, so that the critical expressive power of non-conforming persons of color become a given rather than an alibi, an absence, or a projection.

 

 

Topics List

• Black queer practices of exceeding and disabling technology in the form of musical, audiovisual technics
• Archival recovery, fictive archiving, and critical fabulation of the archive through voice, sound, music, and musical audiovisuality
• Hemispheric and triangular kinships of Black queer media as musical counter-positions within the Americas
• Productivities and problematics of Black queer practices enabling “queer of color” expression
• The politics of citation, reference, and allusion in Black queer musical media practices
• Transmedia musical imaginaries, ethics, and aesthetics
• Surprising transnational circuits of visual imageries and performance practices, that is, audiovisual treatments of the Black
• Atlantic or the Black Pacific
• Musicality, voice, and sound informing counterintuitive or counterhegemonic readings of popular Back queer media
• Digitality, diaspora, musicality
• Soul as reason: re-thinking the place of affect as paralinguistic rhetoric of critique, community, or desire
• “Dirty” computing, musical freakdom, and the gestural paragrammatics of collective self-fashioning
• Musicality and remembrance as transformation of collective memory, in Black musical film more generally, in addition to Blues women’s recordings.
• Afro-Historicisms, Afro-Futurisms, or Afro-Pessimisms on the musical screen
• Shouts and whispers on screen: historical claims and rhetorics in Black audiovision
• Cool, hot, noise: style on the musical screen
• Analytics of track, mix, and edit on screen as homologies of self-fashioning and collective movement
• Ad hoc surrealisms, absurdisms, anti-realisms: musicality as fugitivity
• Generational non-contemporaneity: Black voice carrying over and beyond period and across medium

Submission Due: September 15, 2021 (send to journalsubmissions@liquidblackness.com)

 

Author Guidelines & Submission Information

Submission Types:

• Traditional essays: approx. 3-5,000 words (including footnotes)—all essays should be accompanied by at least one image
• We welcome submissions of interviews, visual and textual art, video, and other artistic work
• Questions about the length, style, format of experimental submissions can be directed to journalsubmissions@liquidblackness.com
• liquid blackness follows the formatting and reference guidelines stipulated by The Chicago Manual of Style
• All submissions, solicited and unsolicited, will be peer-reviewed

Media Specifications:

• We welcome the submission of media files such as video or sound clips, which will be published as supplementary data. The following audio and video file types are acceptable as supplementary data files and supported by our online platform: .mp3, .mp4, .wav, .wma, .au, .m4a, .mpg, .mpeg, .mov, .avi, .wmv., html.
• Executable files (.exe) are not acceptable.
• There is no restriction on the number of files per article or on the size of files; however, please keep in mind that very large files may be problematic for readers with slow connection speeds.
• Please ensure that each video or audio clip is called out in the text of the article, much like how a figure or table is called out: e.g., “see supplementary audio file 1.”