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News framing and queer theory:
Dossier - "The Visualization of Music": Contemporary Performances, Productions, and Recirculations
2025-06-16
Lumina magazine invites authors to submit articles for the dossier "The Visualization of Music." Submissions are open until August 4th, and the dossier will be published on December 30th, 2025.
Guest Editors
Jhonatan Mata (PPGCom UFJF- Brazil)
Nilson Assunção (UFJF- Brazil)
Heloísa de A. Duarte Valente (Universidade Paulista - UNIP, Brazil)
José Luís Fernández (UBA-UNTREF-UNLZ)
The recent—and still pulsating—global acclaim of the film "I'm Still Here" (2024) signals issues that go beyond the genuine buzz surrounding its more than 90 awards and nominations, including Brazil's first Oscar in the International Film category. In the biographical drama directed by Walter Salles, the role of sound—and music in particular—is fundamental. And it oscillates between the acousmatic and performance (Zumthor, 2014), especially when the songs directly dialogue with the characters' speeches. This new issue of Lumina Magazine encourages us to consider the shifts of music from a scenario of self-sufficiency grounded in its pure acoustic dimension to one of complementarity and even equivalence with images. Considering that the idea of "pure music" is quite recent in human culture and a result of Beethoven's intervention and his sonata model in the farewell to the 18th century, this special issue prioritizes work proposals that recognize the opposite: the power of words, gestures, visual accompaniments (sets, choreography, graphic arts), theatrical performance, and narrative or figurative references in the relationship between audiovisuals and music.
Among the many possibilities for study, we highlight the new angles that cinema and television have for approaching the "musical question," the soundtracks that have inspired audiovisual works, from Blue Velvet (David Linch, 1986) to Saudosa Maloca (Pedro Serrano, 2024), the popularization and diversification of musical film/video biographies, and the relevance of soundtracks for the "visualization" of formats such as series, soap operas, and documentaries. From an architectural perspective, we also suggest articles that address the relationship between music and the space for which it was (or was not) conceived and that contrast notions of portable music in its dialogues with music conceived for specific moments and places. We are also interested in the reconfigurations of the music video in the streaming era (GARRET, 2020), in its aesthetic dimensions (SOARES, 2013), consumption, circulation, and audience participation. In the arts and graphic design, printed publications and the development of booklets for physical media—especially vinyl—are examples of objects of study that reinvigorate an industry driven by factors such as nostalgic appeal and ritualistic experiences of materiality and fetishism with music.
Topics of Interest
The visualization of music in a broad sense: aesthetic, ethical, and narrative reconfigurations considering various supports, media, and screens.
New audiovisual/sound genres and formats and the relationships between image and sound in these spaces.
Memes, fandoms, and influencers: musical activism and the platformization of music across multiple screens.
Tensions and dialogues between audiovisuals and music in the context of artificial intelligence.
Dissemination and consumption of music and audiovisuals in a scenario of mass self-communication.
Theoretical and methodological proposals regarding the topic at hand.
Interdisciplinary studies involving marketing, scenography, performing, visual, and plastic arts, design, architecture, and their connections with image and sound.
Audiovisual coverage of musical events and mega-events.
The "musical question" and its approaches in film and television.
Confluences and distinctions between audio and music in streaming.
The contemporary music video: discourses and narratives that prioritize the visualization of music.
Political and social issues involving audio/music and video.
Amateur and professional productions in a scenario of convergence and recirculation of image and sound (social media, engagement, participation, and media fluency).
Relationships between journalism and music based on images.
Important Dates
Launch and Call - June 17th to August 4th
Review submission: from first receipt until August 7th
Review feedback: by September 27th
Review: September 27th to December 15th
Publication: December 30th, 2025
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