New Periodicals

This semiannual column selectively lists newly issued periodicals; describes their objectives, formats, and contents; and provides information about special issues, title and format changes, mergers, and cessations. For information regarding the scope of this column and resources used, consult the headnote in the September 2004 issue (p. 179 of this volume). All Web sites were accessed on 24 November 2004 unless otherwise specified.

International Journal of Music Education (IJME). Edited by Christopher Johnson, Pamela Burnard, and Liane Hentschke. International Society of Music Education (ISME). Triannual. No. 1 (May 1983). Reviewed: 22, nos. 1 (April 2004) and 2 (August 2004); Music Education International nos. 1 (2002) and 2 (2003).Print and electronic formats (PDF; online starts with vol. 22, no. 1 [April 2004]). ISSN 0255-7614 (IJME). Subscription: SAGE Publications, 2455 Teller Rd., Thousand Oaks, CA 91320; online order form at http://www.isme.org/article/articleview/166/1/4/. E-mail journals@sagepub.com. $362.00 (print and online), $343.90 (online), $347.52 (print) institutions; $75 (print) individuals; $127 single print issue (institutions), $33 (individuals); subscription discounts available to ISME members and groups. For more information about IJME, see http://ijm.sagepub.com/ (publisher's Web site) and http://www.isme.org/ (ISME's Web site).

The International Society for Music Education (ISME) was established in Brussels, Belgium, in July 1953. The occasion was the "International Conference on the Role and Place of Music in the Education of Youth and Adults," organized by UNESCO and the then recently formedInternational Music Council. ISME's first journal, International Music Educator,launched in 1960, became the ISME Yearbook in 1973 and covered ISME conferences and other meetings. It ceased in 1988, but for a time complemented a new journal from ISME.

The International Journal of Music Education (IJME) first appeared in May 1983—in time for ISME's thirtieth anniversary—and was produced semiannually through 2001. Research articles were published alongside position papers in the same issue. Signs of change, however, began to appear in number 29 (1997) when the journal, for the first time, published a sampling of papers delivered at an ISME biennial conference. Experimentation with content continued in number 35 (2000), which contains twenty short commissioned articles on five topics of current interest. Guest editor Richard Letts wrote, "my invitation from the brave ISME leadership was to break the traditional mold of the International Journal of Music Education, and, perhaps, to point to a possible new style and direction" (no. 35: 1). Two special focus issues followed—numbers 36 (popular music) and 37 (biennial conference keynote speeches).

A new era seemingly began in 2002 when the one journal divided into two, with the annual IJME publishing peer-reviewed articles "focused on cutting edge research and scholarly discourse," and the new annual Music Education International (MEI) publishing peer-reviewed articles "on the more practical aspects of music teaching." The latter was to be more than a "cookbook" of teaching ideas. It aimed for a "high level of professionalism and scholarship while remaining relevant and useful" (editor Wendy L. Sims, MEI, no. 1: 1). Observant readers noticed that numbers 39 and 40 of IJME in 2002 and 2003, and numbers 1 and 2 of MEI appeared in the same years. After this brief sojourn into a divided existence, the journal entered yet another era in 2004.

Coinciding with fiftieth-anniversary ISME celebrations, IJME moved from ISME's in-house printer at the University of Western Australia to SAGE Publications. IJME will now be available electronically for the first time. Grouping each year's publications since 1983 into annual volumes produces a newly applied number 22 in 2004. IJME and MEI merged and the revitalized IJME is now published three times a year. Each issue has a special focus: Research in April, Showcase in August,and Practice in December.

The Research and Practice issues publish peer-reviewed articles and have their own editors, while the Showcase issue features invited papers and guest editors. The journal is published in English, with abstracts in French, German, and Spanish, and with...