Contrapulso accepts original, unpublished research articles in Spanish, Portuguese or English that represent a contribution to the development of popular music studies. Articles should be academic and well written. They should begin with an introduction that presents a research problem or hypothesis; subsequently, they should include a body section that develops a unique, empirical analysis based on primary sources; and they should include a conclusion that synthesizes the overall contribution of the article. The different sections of the article should be set apart with bold subtitles.

Each author should submit two separate Word documents for evaluation. The first should include author information –name, academic title and university where trained, current institutional affiliation, city, country and email– as well as a brief bio of 150 words. The second document should include the article to be evaluated and should not identify the author.

Articles should be between 5,000 and 8,000 words in length (including abstract, footnotes, appendices and bibliography), and should be written in Word, formatted as letter, with font Times New Roman 12, single-spaced, with 0-point spacing both before and after paragraphs, and with 1.25-cm indentation in the first line of each paragraph (just as in these guidelines).

 

The first page of the article should include:

• Title in Spanish, Portuguese, and English
• Abstract of 150-200 words, font Times New Roman 11, single-spaced, in Spanish or Portuguese, and English
• 5 keywords, in Spanish or Portuguese, and English, separated by commas.

 

   Please only use:

Italics for:

• Words in other languages that are not used in the original language of the article (do not use them for tango or samba, for example)
• Titles of books, journals, albums, and artistic works

 “Quotation marks” for:

• Quotations of up to three lines in the body of the text
• Articles or book chapters
• Song titles

Bold for:

• Title
• Subtitles

Uppercase/lowercase (without quotation marks or italics) for names of:

• Music groups
• Venues
• Theatres, radio stations, television channels

 

Bibliographic references for quotations or ideas from other authors should be in parentheses in the body of the text, not in footnotes (Tagg 2003: 48).

 

Footnotes will be reserved for important observations, of limited length. Footnotes should be in Times New Roman 10, single-spaced (just as in this paragraph). The number of the footnote should be next to the word, and before the punctuation mark¹.

 

Instead of comments in parentheses; rather, use commas or dashes –in this format–.

Set apart quotations of more than three lines, as well as song lyrics, from the body of the text, without quotation marks, and with 1.25-cm indentation for the entire paragraph, in Times New Roman 11 and with 6-point spacing both before and after (as in this paragraph). The reference should go in parentheses at the end of the quotation, not in a footnote. If the quotation contains fragments not cited, indicate them like this: […]

The numbers zero to nine should be written in letters, and the rest in numerals. Centuries should be written in Roman numerals.

At the end of the article, include only bibliographic references that are used in the text, and order them alphabetically according to authors’ last names, with 1-cm hanging indent, as follows:

 

- Books

Aharonián, Coriún. 2007. Músicas populares del Uruguay. Montevideo: Universidad de la República.

 

- Parts of books (chapters, articles in collections)

Blanc, Enrique y José Luis Paredes. 2010. “Rock mexicano: breve recuento del siglo XX” en La música en México. Panorama del siglo XX. Aurelio Tello ed. México: Fondo de Cultura Económica: 395-485.

 

- Articles in periodic publications (such as journal articles)

Verzoni, Marcelo. 2011. “Chiquinha Gonzaga e Ernesto Nazareth: duas mentalidades e dois percursos” en Revista Brasileira de Música, 24/1: 155-169.

 

- Texts published online

Guerrero, Juliana. 1999. “El género musical en la música popular: algunos problemas para su caracterización”, Revista Transcultural de Música / Transcultural Music Review, 16, 2012, www.sibetrans.com/trans/published-issues  [acceso 9/2018]

 

- Theses

Benítez, Carlos Mario. 2018. “El Muro de Sonido en la balada pop, 1960-1967: casos escogidos en Estados Unidos, España, Francia, Chile y Colombia”. Maestría en Musicología, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá.

 

- Sound recordings

Inti-Illimani. 1971. Autores chilenos. Santiago: Dicap. LP.

 

All graphs, illustrations, musical notation, engravings or photographs that accompany the article should be relevant to the material. They should be identified in the text as Figure 1: with a brief description, such as:

 

Figure 6: Caetano Veloso. Capa do LP Araçá azul. 1972. Rio de Janeiro: Philips.

Authors should name the sources of each illustration or example and should provide a brief identification or commentary. It is acceptable to simply name the music examples, or to include links for listening online.

Send all illustrations separately, in .jpg files of at least 300 dpi, indicating Figure 1, Figure 2, etc. as file names.

Before submitting the article, please make sure that it complies carefully with these norms and run a spell check in Word.