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

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 

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 

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