Mark Duffett is editing two special issues on music fandom for Popular Music and Society, and the first of these has just been published. It features the following articles:
Introduction: Directions in Music Fan Research: Undiscovered Territories and Hard Problems
Mark Duffett
A Long Strange Trip: The Continuing World of European Deadheads
Peter Smith & Ian Inglis
“Anyone who Calls Muse a Twilight Band will be Shot on Sight”: Music, Distinction, and the “Interloping Fan” in the Twilight Franchise
Rebecca Williams
Diva Worship and the Sonic Search for Queer Utopia
Craig Jennex
Making Monsters: Lady Gaga, Fan Identification, and Social Media
Melissa A. Click, Hyunji Lee & Holly Willson Holladay
“His Soul Was Wandering and Holy”: Employing and Contesting Religious Terminology in Django Fandom
Siv B. Lie
Forum:
My Music, Not Yours: Ravings of a Rock-and-Roll Fanatic
B. Lee Cooper
You can read the full issue here:
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpms20/current#.Ub3wlqXnmTc
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