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Submission Guidelines
American Music
Information for Authors and Publishers
Articles should be submitted electronically (or in hard copy if electronic submission is not possible) to Neil Lerner, Editor, American Music, Davidson College, Department of Music, Box 7131, Davidson, NC 28035; e-mail: nelerner@davidson.edu. File attachments should be in Microsoft Word or in rich text format. Use endnotes. Please note that except for originals of illustrative material, submitted articles are not returned to authors. Submitted articles should normally be approximately 25 to 50 pages, double spaced.
The author's full name, mailing address, and e-mail address should appear only in the cover letter, as submissions are reviewed anonymously. Please ensure that your identity does not appear in running heads, references, or notes. Page numbers should appear at the top right of all pages after page 1. All parts of the article, including endnotes, quotations, song texts, bibliographies and discographies, appendices, and captions for illustrations, must be double spaced, printed on one side of the sheet only, on 8 ½ by 11" paper with 1" margins. Music examples, figures, tables, and illustrations must be numbered and sent in a separate file attachment (or on separate sheets), with the desired location clearly indicated in the main text. Music examples need not be camera-ready. All figures or illustrations should be submitted as separate TIFF image files with image quality of at least 300 dpi. Submissions not conforming with these instructions may be returned to the author for correction prior to consideration. American Music follows the guidelines in the 15th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style.
Books for review should be addressed to David Patterson, 146 N Humphrey Ave #A3, Oak Park, IL 60302. Reviewers should follow the instructions provided by the Book Review Editor.
Recordings for review should be addressed to Mark Perry, North Georgia College & State University, 322 Georgia Circle, Dahlonega, GA 30597. Reviewers should follow the instructions provided by the Recording Review Editor.
Multimedia items for review (including videos, DVDs, etc.) should be addressed to Ivan Raycoff, Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, 65 West 11th Street, New York, NY 10011. Reviewers should follow the instructions provided by the Multimedia Review Editor.
Since its inception, American Music (1983-) has been published by the University of Illinois Press, which was established in 1918 as a not-for-profit scholarly publisher at the University and is one of the founding members of the Association of American University Presses in 1937. UIP is ranked as one of the country's larger and more distinguished university presses and publishes works of high quality for scholars, students, and the citizens of the state and beyond.
American Music was the first journal published devoted exclusively to American music and to music in America. Articles cover American composers, performers, publishers, institutions, events, and the music industry. Recent article topics have included: Duke Ellington and early radio; John Cage's HPSCHD; the WPA music copying project; defining the Easy Listening era; Milton Babbitt in academia; the soul roots of Bruce Springsteen; the benefit concerts of Jack Benny and Danny Kaye; and the boyhood of Henry Cowell. The journal also includes interviews with composers and reviews of books, recordings, films, websites, and concerts.
