Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Writing Opportunity Where the Palm Trees Meet the Pines
Call for contributions and Editorial Board announced
Chapter&Verse is a new web journal that explores the creative intersection between popular music and the written word - novels and short stories, plays and poetry, journalism and criticism.
The site, launched with the Spring 2004 edition, will carry essays, articles and reviews which cover that inter-cultural territory where rock stars publish short stories, novelists tap in to the energy of jazz, soul and hip hop, poets forge alliances with hippies, b-boys and rastas, sci-fi visionaries influence prog rock and cyber punk, Gothic voices inspire nu metal, and music critics and columnists eulogise and crucify.
Chapter&Verse plans to include pieces on Bob Dylan and the Last Poets, Gil Scott Heron and Patti Smith, Jack Kerouac and Tom Wolfe, Poppy Z Brite and Genesis P-Orridge, Jim Morrison and Jewel, Hanif Kureishi and Salman Rushdie, U2 and REM, Allen Ginsberg and Henry Rollins, Adrian Henri, John Cooper Clarke and Benjamin Zephaniah, Julie Burchill and Joolz Denby, William Gibson and Sam Shepard, Nick Hornby and Steve Earle, Douglas Coupland and Irvine Welsh, Nik Cohn and Greil Marcus, Nick Kent and the Nu Yoricans, to name only a few.
It will consider literary movements that have become entangled with popular musical forms - the Beats, the Angry Young Men, the Mersey Poets, the Blank Generation writers and those more recent voices of the Chemical Generation - and musical genres - from blues to reggae, country to punk, acid house to industrial, rap to drum'n'bass - that have dipped into the literary well for intellectual sustenance and emotional inspiration.
The journal will also contemplate those literary figures - from Shakespeare to Blake and the Romantic poets, Rimbaud and the Symbolist poets to Joyce, Orwell and Greene to Nelson Algren and John Dos Passos, Anthony Burgess and Joseph Heller to Hubert Selby, Jr and J.G.Ballard - who have inspired popular musicians to react and respond.
Chapter&Verse will attempt to understand better the interplay between the printed and spoken word and music-making, on stage and in the studio: Is a song lyric ever poetry? How do musicians utilise the literary in their creative lives? Is there such a thing as jazz literature? Is punk verse simply oxymoronic? Where do New Journalism and recent rock criticism overlap? And why do many latterday writers turn to pop culture as a source for their work?
But its main objective will be to broadly investigate the terrain, open up some windows of opportunity, for writers and commentators who want to say something about this fertile crossroads in the contemporary cultural landscape.
NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS
If Chapter&Verse is of interest to you and you have articles - or ideas for articles - that might fit the brief, do write to the Editor, Simon Warner, at chapterandverse@writersinc.net
Please note that the second issue of Chapter&Verse is scheduled for Autumn 2004. Potential contributors to that edition should be aware that there is June 30th, 2004 deadline for proposals which should come, initially, in the form of a 300 word abstract. Proposed submissions will then be considered by members of the Editorial Board.
Articles may range in length from 3,000-6,000 words. Shorter contributions - reviews of relevant works in print, recordings or live events or comment pieces, for example - are also invited with a suggested length of 1,000-1,500 words. Do contact the journal if you have suggestions for items you might wish to cover.
8-23-04 Update:
The email address for Chapter and Verse has changed. Use: journal@chapterandverse.org.uk
¶ 6/22/2004 11:48:00 AM
Call for contributions and Editorial Board announced
Chapter&Verse is a new web journal that explores the creative intersection between popular music and the written word - novels and short stories, plays and poetry, journalism and criticism.
The site, launched with the Spring 2004 edition, will carry essays, articles and reviews which cover that inter-cultural territory where rock stars publish short stories, novelists tap in to the energy of jazz, soul and hip hop, poets forge alliances with hippies, b-boys and rastas, sci-fi visionaries influence prog rock and cyber punk, Gothic voices inspire nu metal, and music critics and columnists eulogise and crucify.
Chapter&Verse plans to include pieces on Bob Dylan and the Last Poets, Gil Scott Heron and Patti Smith, Jack Kerouac and Tom Wolfe, Poppy Z Brite and Genesis P-Orridge, Jim Morrison and Jewel, Hanif Kureishi and Salman Rushdie, U2 and REM, Allen Ginsberg and Henry Rollins, Adrian Henri, John Cooper Clarke and Benjamin Zephaniah, Julie Burchill and Joolz Denby, William Gibson and Sam Shepard, Nick Hornby and Steve Earle, Douglas Coupland and Irvine Welsh, Nik Cohn and Greil Marcus, Nick Kent and the Nu Yoricans, to name only a few.
It will consider literary movements that have become entangled with popular musical forms - the Beats, the Angry Young Men, the Mersey Poets, the Blank Generation writers and those more recent voices of the Chemical Generation - and musical genres - from blues to reggae, country to punk, acid house to industrial, rap to drum'n'bass - that have dipped into the literary well for intellectual sustenance and emotional inspiration.
The journal will also contemplate those literary figures - from Shakespeare to Blake and the Romantic poets, Rimbaud and the Symbolist poets to Joyce, Orwell and Greene to Nelson Algren and John Dos Passos, Anthony Burgess and Joseph Heller to Hubert Selby, Jr and J.G.Ballard - who have inspired popular musicians to react and respond.
Chapter&Verse will attempt to understand better the interplay between the printed and spoken word and music-making, on stage and in the studio: Is a song lyric ever poetry? How do musicians utilise the literary in their creative lives? Is there such a thing as jazz literature? Is punk verse simply oxymoronic? Where do New Journalism and recent rock criticism overlap? And why do many latterday writers turn to pop culture as a source for their work?
But its main objective will be to broadly investigate the terrain, open up some windows of opportunity, for writers and commentators who want to say something about this fertile crossroads in the contemporary cultural landscape.
NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS
If Chapter&Verse is of interest to you and you have articles - or ideas for articles - that might fit the brief, do write to the Editor, Simon Warner, at chapterandverse@writersinc.net
Please note that the second issue of Chapter&Verse is scheduled for Autumn 2004. Potential contributors to that edition should be aware that there is June 30th, 2004 deadline for proposals which should come, initially, in the form of a 300 word abstract. Proposed submissions will then be considered by members of the Editorial Board.
Articles may range in length from 3,000-6,000 words. Shorter contributions - reviews of relevant works in print, recordings or live events or comment pieces, for example - are also invited with a suggested length of 1,000-1,500 words. Do contact the journal if you have suggestions for items you might wish to cover.
8-23-04 Update:
The email address for Chapter and Verse has changed. Use: journal@chapterandverse.org.uk
¶ 6/22/2004 11:48:00 AM
