About
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.
Announcements
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2025-01-24
Arabic translations of Acces to Waxes I [the world of music (new series) 12 (2), 2023] are now 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: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Digitization and Open Access" (published in English in February 2024). All contributions are now also available in Arabic translation, to be found online with their English equivalents. They include 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. The Arabic translations of the second part of this double issue will be published soon.
–Barbara Titus
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2024-12-23
the world of music (new series) 13 (2), 2024 is online
This issue is the second 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". It includes contributions by musicologists, lawyers and historians about issues of ownership, technical infrastructures of digitization, and science diplomacy in the handling of sonic heritage. All articles of this double issue will soon also be available in Arabic translation on our website.
–Barbara Titus
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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
Volume 13, No. 2Access to Waxes II - The Collections from the Arab World of the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Digitization and Open Access Publication
Issue description
Double Issue of the world of music (new series), vol. 13, no. 2
Guest edited by Nadia Bahra, Lando Kirchmair, Matthias Pasdzierny & Albrecht Wiedmann