Call for Submissions
The Role of Music Psychology Research in a Complex World: Implications, Applications and Debates
A Music & Science Special Collection
Deadline: 31 December 2020
The study of the musical mind its associated behaviours has become increasingly socially conscious, with more emphasis on applications and values, and calls to reflect on music(king)'s capacity to afford (inter)subjectivity and empathy; to engage with music's global diversity, and to encourage interdisciplinarity communality. The special collection is particularly timely as recent years have seen rapid societal and cultural change on a global scale, which has impacted on priorities for the environment, education, community, wellbeing, politics, and social justice, as well as mounting concern about the rise of intolerance in an increasingly polarised society. This will be the first collection of papers in nearly a decade that (re)considers music psychology (in the broadest sense of the term) in light of current challenges, and seeks to foster discussion and debate about the role that music psychology might play in addressing them.
We invite submissions that address a wide variety of topics, methodologies, and questions, including (but not limited to):
• (How) can music psychology understand and address current societal challenges?
• What should a socially engaged music psychology look like today?
• What are the urgent/difficult questions?
• What new approaches to socially applicable research are there?
• What key assumptions remain in the field and how might they be challenged?
• Any paper that explicitly applies music psychological knowledge to address socially urgent research questions.
The submitted manuscripts for this Special Collection will be peer-reviewed before publication.
More information can be found here: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/mns/special-collections/The-role-of-music-psychology-research-in-a-complex-world
Guest Editors: Prof. Karen Burland and Dr Emily Payne
Dr Emily Payne
Lecturer in Music
Assistant Editor, Music & Science
School of Music, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
