We are now accepting submissions for the Fall/Winter 2025 issue of Rising Voices in Ethnomusicology. We are calling this new issue, vol. 21, no. 2, "Ethnomusicology Now." We welcome submissions across a range of topics, current student interests, and concerns within ethnomusicology or related academic disciplines. Additionally, we offer the following questions as potential starting points: how might ethnomusicologists approach the present fraught moment for higher education? How might ethnomusicologists sustain commitments to social justice in the current climate? How have recent developments impacted the studies of ethnomusicologists transnationally? And how do we envision the development of our discipline into the future?
Authors will engage in a collaborative process with the editing team, working through multiple rounds of editing and feedback prior to publication. We strive for a collaborative review process that helps bridge the gap between writing for university courses and peer-reviewed publication. We especially welcome submissions from first-time publishers, multilingual writers, and from those affiliated with institutions outside the anglosphere.
The following categories are currently open: graduate student articles, undergraduate student articles, creative submissions, news items, and professional submissions. For details on each of these categories, please see the guidelines below.
If you would like to submit a piece for this issue, please send a manuscript to the editors at risingvoicesjournal@gmail.com by September 1, 2025. Submissions must follow Chicago Manual of Style, 18th edition (author-date)—attention to our guidelines is crucial for acceptance. Please follow our submission guidelines at our website. Submit files in .docx (text), .jpg (photography and images), .mp3 or .flac (audio), and .mp4 (video) formats. Include your contact information and university affiliation in your email, and note for which category you are submitting.
If you have any questions, please email risingvoicesjournal@gmail.com. We hope you will share this call widely with those who may be interested!
Sincerely,
Garrett Groesbeck and Mark Hsiang-Yu Feng
Editors, Rising Voices in Ethnomusicology
We are currently accepting submissions for the following categories:
1. Graduate student articles (c. 2000-2500 words): Articles engaging musical research or theoretical concepts from ethnomusicology and related disciplines. Authors are encouraged to submit pieces incorporating a variety of media (written with visual, audio, and/or video components).
2. Undergraduate and incoming graduate student submissions (c. 1500-2000 words): We welcome rigorously-researched undergraduate papers that engage with literature from ethnomusicology and related fields, which may include term papers. Undergraduates with accepted submissions will be assigned graduate student mentors to work with edits before publication. We hope that professors will also feel encouraged to recommend exceptional student work.
3. Creative submissions: Photography, artwork, poetry, short stories, music, field notes, interview snippets, and more! Refer to recent issues for examples of diverse potential approaches to this category.
4. News items (c. 150-500 words): Announcements of particular relevance to students in ethnomusicology - this could include funding opportunities, newly announced publications, calls for submissions or applications, conference proceedings, and more.
5. Professional submissions (c. 500-750 words): We solicit submissions from professional contributors who work in ethnomusicology and related fields for our “Dear SEM” column.