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the world of music (new series) is an international scholarly journal dedicated to reporting and reflecting current theoretical perspectives on and research in the field of the world’s music and dance.

While every issue is designed to focus on a specific topic, the world of music (new series) does not confine its attention to any single region or methodological approach. We publish original, and sometimes challenging, contributions from all over the world, aimed at musicologists and musicians, dance researchers, anthropologists, cultural studies and post-colonial studies scholars, and others.

The articles contained in the world of music (new series) are informed by a variety of theoretical perspectives but devoted to a shared goal: understanding the musics of the world, their histories, and their manifold environments. It is our aim to generate a productive and creative dialogue between music researchers in disparate locations and contexts.

the world of music (new series) is a Diamond open access journal, but also available in print. For more information on the print version and how to subscribe, please visit VWB Publishers.

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Announcements

  • 2024-12-09

    the world of music (new series) 13 (1), 2024 is online

    Issue 13:1 of the world of music (new series) is now online. Guest-edited by Jacob Olley, the issue is entitled "Resounding 1923: Musical Modernities from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic“. The articles in this issue reconsider the historical and contemporary discourses that have accrued around 1923 and explore the relationship between music, politics, and social life in Turkey and beyond from the late Ottoman period until today. For this issue, guest editor Jacob Olley has brought together authors whose research engages with diverse periods, musical genres, and theoretical approaches. The contributions to this issue offer critical new perspectives on music and modernity, particularly in terms of political and cultural interactions between the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Turkey, Europe, and the other communities and states that emerged out of the Ottoman Empire.

    –Birgit Abels 

  • 2024-02-26

    the world of music (new series) 12 (2), 2023 is online

    This issue is the first part of a double issue entitled "Access to Waxes – The Collections from the Arab World of the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv: Between Digitization, "Repatriation," and Online Publication". Issue 12 (2) includes a General Introduction to the double issue plus a set of five articles, written by Nadia Bahra, Lando Kirchmair, Matthias Pasdzierny, Albrecht Wiedmann, Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco, Susanne Ziegler, Jean Lambert, and Ruth F. Davis. Issue 13 (1), the second part of this double issue, will be published in a few months from now. It includes contributions from Dörte Schmidt, Mèhèza Kalibani, Christian Czychowski & Lea Riechers, Souheir Nadde, and Lando Kirchmair. All articles of this double issue will also be available in Arabic translation.

    –Birgit Abels 

  • 2023-03-06

    the world of music (new series) has switched to an open access model

    We are pleased to announce that the world of music (new series) has switched to an open access model. Starting with the first issue of this year, our journal will be freely accessible online (Diamond open access). We have a new homepage and are now published by Göttingen University Press. VWB Publishing, the journal’s previous publisher, will continue to publish a print edition. The new model will make the world of music (new series) more easily accessible around the world, and we look forward to exploring the various possibilities of the journal’s increased visibility.

    –Birgit Abels

Current Issue

Volume 13, No. 1Resounding 1923: Musical Modernities from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic

Published December 9, 2024

Cartoon from Akşam, 7 November 1934. Courtesy of the National Library, Ankara. The man shouts: “It doesn’t do for the Turk to stop! The Turk is at the front, the Turk is forwards!” The instruments in the background (tanbur, ud, and kanun) say: “We weren’t able to harmonize with that loud voice anyway…!”

Issue description

the world of music (new series), vol. 13, no. 1

Guest-edited by Jacob Olley