New Periodicals

New Titles

JAZZed: the Jazz Educator's Magazine. Edited by Christian Wissmuller. Symphony Publishing. Bimonthly. Vol. 1, no. 1 (October/November 2006). Print format. Subscription or inquiries: JAZZed Magazine, 21 Highland Circle Suite One, Needham, MA 02494. E-mail: mprescott@symphonypublishing.com. $24 US, $36 CAN, $48 International.

Developed by the publishers of School Band and Orchestra and Choral Director magazines, this new journal focuses on jazz education. Its intended audience includes primary, high school and college teachers.

Each issue of JAZZed features someone who both performs and teaches jazz. Gary Burton, Grammy-winning vibraphonist and former dean of the Berklee College of Music, is the featured educator/performer for the inaugural issue; others profiled in this issue include Nick Phillips, vice president of Jazz and Catalog A&R at Concord Records; author and educator Brian Kane; and guest clinician Pete McCann. The journal's in-depth profiles and emphasis on hands-on ways of discussing performance methods, improvisation, and repertoire make it very useful for educators.

Journal on Audio, Speech and Music Processing. Edited by Douglas O'Shaughnessy. European Association for Speech, Signal and Image Processing (EURASIP). Article-by-article. Vol. 2007. ISSN 1687-4714 (print); 1687-4722 (online). Print and online (PDF and HTML) format. Access: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/asmp. Subscription or inquiries: Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 410 Park Avenue, 15th Floor, No. 287 PMB, New York, NY 10022. E-mail: asmp@hindawi.com. $195.00 (print), online access is free.

This peer-reviewed journal aims to "bring together researchers, scientists and engineers working on the theory and applications of the processing of various audio signals, with a specific focus on speech and music." The journal is well placed to fulfill this mission with an extensive list of associate editors, very international in scope and representing both academe and the corporate world. Subject areas covered in the journal are: speech and audio technology (including related science and engineering methods), speech analysis, room acoustics, human audition, speech and audio separation, music signal analysis, synthesis and information retrieval; contributions address issues in these areas both theoretically and practically. The journal is open-access and updated continuously: articles are posted as soon as they are accepted.

The Journal on Audio, Speech and Music Processing is not indexed in standard music indexes. It can be found indexed/reviewed in the following: ACM Guide to Computing Literature, Compendex, CSA Technology Research Database, Directory of Open-Access Journals (DOAJ), INSPEC, Scopus, and the Technology and Management (TEMA) Database.

Radical Musicology. Edited by Ian Biddle and Richard Middleton. International Centre for Music Studies at Newcastle University. Annual. Vol. 1 (2006). ISSN 1751-7788. Online (PDF and HTML) format. Access: http://www.radical-musicology.org.uk. Inquiries: email enquiries@radical-musicology.org.uk. Free.

Radical Musicology is peer-reviewed and was established to "provide a forum for progressive thinking across the whole field of musical studies." Although the journal does not advocate a particular theoretical viewpoint or ideology, it was created in response to a perceived marginalization of the 'new' or 'critical' musicologies of the 1990s. The editorial board does indeed read as an international "Who's Who" of the 'new musicology' including names such as Philip V. Bohlman, University of Chicago and Susan McClary, University of California, Los Angeles (AMS list post by Ian Biddle, 16 September 2006: Radical Musicology: New Journal announcement and call for submissions).

Although the journal is published in annual volumes, new content is added continuously as it becomes available. In addition to scholarly articles the journal includes reviews of books, recordings, and concerts. The five "radicalists" contributing to the first issue come from a variety of backgrounds, interests and methodologies. Established musicologists, an anthropologist, and a first year Ph.D. student clearly demonstrate the range of possibilities a forum such as this holds. The issue opens with anthropologist Gustavo Azenha discussing the Internet and the decentralization of the popular music industry. He argues that new technologies are ultimately reinforcing existing social hierarchies and relations and that these trends are reflected in, and reinforced by music industry trends. Contrast this with Sarah Hill's feminist profiling of female popular singers or Vic Gammon's article...