Call for Papers

Clio’s Psyche Call for Papers on
Psychology of Music & Musicians
Winter 2023 Issue
(Papers due 10/01/2022)

Some possible psychoanalytic/approaches include:

• What makes music so emotionally powerful? Why & how does music soothe or arouse us?
• What musical composition, song, or performance has changed your or someone else’s life?
• How does music connect to personality structures of individuals? Including music that is hated.
• What is the favored music of historical figures and how does it relate to their personalities?
• What is the relationship between music and dance and the ideals of a particular culture and time?
• Why and how has American popular music evolved and been so transformative? What is the impact of race, region, ethnicity, and immigration on this creativity?
• What makes musicians models, heroes, and heroines to much of the public?
• What are the similarities in the autobiographies and lives of great musicians?
• How does psychobiography help us understand music and musicians?
• What is the changing role of technology in the art, craft, and business of music?
• What is the role of music in religion? What makes sacred music sacred?
• What accounts for shifts in taste over time? What does it tell us about the mood, aspirations, fears, fantasies of the shift in zeitgeist historically and emotionally?
• How does the music of our childhood resonate through our lives?
• How did rock music festivals such as Woodstock, Altamont, and others impact the culture?
• Write a psychobiography of a musician.

We seek articles from 1,000-3,000 words—including a 25-word abstract, 7-10 keywords, and your brief biography ending in your e-mail address—by 10/01/2022. Case studies are encouraged. Send articles to .

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