Dear Colleagues,
This is the first call for submissions for the Spring/Summer 2025 issue of Rising Voices in Ethnomusicology: A Student Journal. We are titling this new issue, vol. 21 no. 1, “Music, Gender, and Sexuality.” We welcome all submissions as they pertain to this topic, conceived broadly.
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.
We are currently accepting submissions for the following categories: graduate student articles, creative submissions, and professional submissions. Please note that we will not consider undergraduate submissions for this cycle unless they are directly related to the theme. Refer to the list below for details on each of these categories. We hope you will share widely with those who may be interested.
If you would like to submit a piece for this issue, please forward submissions to the editors at risingvoicesjournal@gmail.com by March 1, 2025. Submissions must follow Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition (author-date)—attention to our guidelines is crucial for acceptance. Please follow our updated 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. Please feel free to share this call widely.
If you have any questions, please email risingvoicesjournal@gmail.com.
Sincerely,
Hannah Snavely and Garrett Groesbeck
Editors, Rising Voices in Ethnomusicology
1. Graduate Student articles (c. 2000-2500 words): Articles related to the issue’s theme, 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. Creative submissions: Photography, artwork, music, and more! Refer to recent issues for examples of diverse potential approaches to this category.
3. Professional submissions: We solicit submissions from professional contributors who work in ethnomusicology and related fields for our “Dear SEM” column (c. 500-750 words). Responses may be related to the issue’s theme and/or respond to any portion of the following prompt:
How have concerns and theories in gender and sexuality changed throughout the course of your career, and in what directions do you see the field heading within these paradigms?
How are feminist and queer theory both distinct from, and related to, your identity as queer scholars and/or women? How might these entanglements complicate research?
What advice do you have for graduate students as they continue to navigate heteropatriarchal academic spaces and fieldwork sites? How do you create safety, inclusivity, and community in the classroom?