[Nettime-bold] Call for Contributions: "That's Retrotainment!"

[Tiffany Lee Brown <magdalen@magdalen.com>]

Written & visual contributions are sought for "That's 
Retrotainment!", a special theme issue of Signum. Signum encompasses 
a monthly webzine at http://www.signumpress.com/ and a print 
anthology.

As used by Signum, the word "retrotainment" covers lots of stuff: 
burlesque, vaudeville, anarchist fire-eaters, various theatrical 
forms and traditions, seedy roadside carnivals, musical subgenres 
that transmute into kitsch & are then reborn in modern music, tiki 
bars, buskers, circuses, Jesus Christ Superstar, and any spectacle 
involving tap dancers. *Desperately seeking someone to write 
intelligently about German cabaret and/or Kabarett, hopefully 
covering last year's 100th anniversary of Berlin cabaret.*

The tone of writing should be thoughtful and reasonably accessible 
(though we sometimes veer off into insider-speak or let academics and 
theorists off their leashes for a romp in the green fields of 
fifty-cent words and neo-post-hyper-lengthy sentences). English 
language -- all accessible/readable flavours are accepted. All 
writers/artists must have online access for editing/correspondence of 
their work.

Articles can take many forms & lengths: reviews of theme-related 
books, CDs, or websites (200-500 words); in-depth articles and 
interviews (3000-3500 words); artist/phenomenon profiles (1500 
words); and personal essays (1500 words).

For an idea of how Signum's theme issues work, look at the 
double-issue theme "What Ever Happened to the Cyber Revolution?" 
before querying further. The issues may be accessed through the 
Catacombs archive at http://www.signumpress.com/catacombs.

Please direct all inquiries, before 15 June 2001, to:

	Tiffany Lee Brown, Editrix
	Signum
	3439 NE Sandy Blvd. #513
	Portland, Oregon USA 97232

	http://www.signumpress.com
	editrix@signumpress.com


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