New Periodicals

This semiannual column selectively lists new periodicals; describes their objectives, formats, and contents; and provides information about special issues; title and format changes, mergers, and cessations. The following resources were frequently consulted when assembling this column: Music Periodicals Database (MPD; http://www.proquest.com/products-services/iimp_ft.html), Music Index (MI; https://www.ebscohost.com/academic/music-index), RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, (RILM; http://www.rilm.org), OCLC Worldcat and Ulrich's Periodical Directory (www.ulrichsweb.com/ulrichsweb/), and the Directory of Open Access Journals (http://www.doaj.org). All Web sites were accessed on 18 September 2017 unless otherwise specified.

TITLE, FREQUENCY, AND PUBLISHER CHANGES; CESSATIONS

Centre for Studies in Australian Music. Review (ISSN 1443-9018), published by University of Melbourne's Centre for Studies in Australian Music, ceased publication in 2017.

SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUES

American Music Vol. 34, No. 4 (Winter 2016): Music and the Great War. As explained by guest editor Gayle Magee, this special issue includes four articles related to World War I, where "each takes on a different, unique repertoire from the period, exploring the relationships between nationalism, patriotism, and creativity." The issue does not have reviews or other content.

American Music Vol. 35, No. 1 (Spring 2017): Special Section: Papers from the Frederick Loewe Symposium in American Music. Composer Libby Larsen wrote the foreword for this issue, noting that "four scholars present us with in-depth looks at some people and organizations that have shaped our perception of who composers are and how they operate in our musical landscape." Editors Katherine Baber and Patrick Warfield also wrote an introduction, and the issue includes another article plus a review essay.

Computer Music Journal Vol. 41, No. 1 (Spring 2017): High-Density Loudspeaker Arrays, Part 2: Spatial Perception and Creative Practice. Guest edited by Eric Lyon, this issue "is directed toward questions of spatial perception and compositional practice … two of the five articles present the results of psychoacoustic experimentation." This issue also features two reviews.

Computer Music Journal Vol. 41, No. 2 (Summer 2017): The Musician's Interface. Guest editors Andrew McPherson and Tamara Smyth were paper chairs of NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression) in 2016. They culled select papers from NIME 2016, for a total of four research articles, followed by reviews.

Early Music Vol. 44, No. 4 (Summer 2016): Jean-Philippe Rameau and His World. Edited by Graham Sadler, this issue includes five research articles on Rameau, along with four other articles on early music. Also featured are four book reviews, a music review, four recording reviews, and three conference reports.

Journal of World Popular Music Vol. 4, No. 1 (2017): Special Issue. As clarified in the editorial, this issue shows the journal's commitment to "the publication of research that generates innovative perspectives on different fields and areas of research in world music … [including] the role of the internet, the state, identity, citizenship, heritage, museum and archive studies in the construction and circulation of world popular music." The issue includes three research articles, several book reviews, along with music reviews, and an interview with an archivist.

Music, Sound, and the Moving Image

Vol. 10, No. 2 (Autumn 2016): Breath and Body of the Voice in Cinema. Guest edited by Ian Garwood and Liz Greene, this issue features four articles that "investigate the bodily qualities of the vocal utterances that accompany the cinematic experience, whether these emerge from the soundtrack of the film itself or from the audience watching it." Also included are two book reviews.

The Musical Quarterly Vol. 99, No. 2 (Summer 2016): Cosmopolitanisms. Editor Leon Botstein wrote that this issue "explores the analytic and descriptive use of the term 'cosmopolitan' in music history" and introduced the guest editors, Sarah Collins and Dana Gooley. The title includes five research articles and no reviews or other content.

The Opera Quarterly Vol. 32, No. 1 (Winter 2016): Opera and Citizenship. Guest editor Sindhumathi Revuluri wrote in the editorial that the issue invites "analogies between the structures of operatic and geopolitical systems … I thus use the term citizenship deliberately, to invoke the power and privilege that citizenship grants." The title includes four articles and a...