[MGSA-L] Fw: Call for co-curators/proof-readers for Gorgòn Magazine's issue on Diamanda Galás

[Carl Sandler Berkowitz]

This came in on a Classical languages listserv, but it certainly seems more appropriate for MGSA, so I am forwarding it for your consideration.
Carl Berkowitz 
From: Marco Benoit Carbone 
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2012 7:19 AM
Subject: Call for co-curators/proof-readers for Gorgòn M agazine's issue on Diamanda Galás

Dear All, 

this is a Call for co-curators and proof-readers for an upcoming online issue of Gorgòn magazine.

Independent, ISSN-assigned magazine Gorgòn – Polymorphous Culture has been published in Italy for some years and is soon to release its first monograph in English. This special issue will be a critical and scholarly homage to the extraordinary Greek-American singer, artist, and performer Diamanda Galás. It will inaugurate publications in English and will anticipate its transformation in a scientific Journal.  

The monograph will feature essays exploring the artistic, aesthetic, cultural, and political depth of Diamanda Galás work. It will also feature original visual art from Italian artists and Galás herself, along with an exclusive interview and previously unreleased photo shoots. A complete critical discography will wrap up this comprehensive homage of Diamanda's impact on music and people, which is certain to have a big resonance in fan communities and beyond.  

This will be an international online project with contributors that will include Diamanda Galás, Stef Kastamonitis, Petra Davis, Jim Provenzano, Christopher Atamian, Riccardo Fassone, Christos Tsiamis, Mark Hambrose Harris, Stefano Leoni, Marco Castagnetto, Sergio Padovani, and others.  A limited edition print version is now being considered, as well as many forms of presentation and promotion. 


The issue will be release this summer and Gorgòn is looking for editors and proof-readers with English as their first language.

The contributors will have to work very soon on a (reasonably sized) series of articles and will have a chance to feature as full co-curators of the journal, be invited in future events, and participate to the current work in progress of the soon-to-become fully-fledged refereed Journal. 

The ideal contributors will have English as first language, possibly a genuine interest for music/theatre/performance/Galás, and previous experience with proof-reading or editing. 
Since Gorgòn is an independent, self-funded, and non-profit project, collaboration will be served on a voluntary basis.

We are looking forward to your collaboration to this exciting project! 
Please contact info at gorgonmagazine.com for enquiries or further information. 

Thank you very much for your attention! 

     All best, 

            Marco Benoît Carbone 

Gorgòn Italian home page: http://www.sabbatica.org/gorgonmagazine/index.html

Some of the Publications (browsable): http://issuu.com/gorgonmagazine

Download 'Gli Sguardi di Medusa' in PDF: http://www.sabbatica.org/gorgonmagazine/pagine/alpha_downloads.html

Gorgòn Δ – ΔΙΑΜΑΝΔΑ 

Ouverture 

With her astounding vocal power and versatility and the intensity and depth of her performances, Diamanda Galás has been holding under a spell listeners, musicians, critics and musicologists for three decades.
Her piano skills and three and a half octaves vocal range, coupled with her ability to alternate the sublime and the uncanny by unraveling an astounding variety of singing, operating and shrieking techniques, have allowed her to explore and transcend genres and styles ranging from classical to blues, from rock to avant- garde, from jazz to Mediterranean chanting.
On top of the astonishing vocals skills which gained her a prestigious Demetrio Stratos Prize, and of the unique array of collaborations with experimental and popular acts (including one with Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones), Diamanda Galás distinguished herself as one of a kind for the notable intellectual depth of her work. Blending composition and performance with intellectual commitment, the Greek-American artist has been focusing on themes like suffering, stigmatization, condemnation and injustice, and has become an advocate for the causes of homosexual and women rights, AIDS awareness and the memory of the Armenian, Greek, Assyrian and Hellenic victims of theTurkish genocide.
A charismatic persona, capable of inducing tongue-tied suspense or interminable rounds of applauses in cult followers from any demographics and extraction, Diamanda Galás has been recognized as one of the most unique and important singers of our times, as well as a defining figure in feminine representation and performance from the 70s onward.
As the 30th anniversary of her first official album release approaches, Gorgòn will be celebrating Diamanda Galás with a monograph aimed at investigating the complexity and depth of her work and artistry from multiple perspectives: musical, aesthetic, intellectual, cultural, political. 

Marco Benoît Carbone
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