Special Journal Issues

College Music Symposium Vol. 54 (October 2014): Special Issue on Ethnomusicology Scholarship and Teaching: Then, Now, and Into the Future. As the title suggests, this issue explores new directions in ethnomusicology and the editor has engaged such scholars as Bruno Nettl and Ruth Stone. The issue includes six articles and does not include any reviews or other content.

Computer Music Journal Vol. 38, No. 4 (Winter 2014): Special Issue on Digital Sound Synthesis. This issue includes four original articles, plus two articles on related issues (such as algorithmic composition), book reviews, and information on new products of interest.

Contemporary Music Review Vol. 33, No. 5–6 (2014). Special Issue on Cage (Re)Considered. Co-edited by David W. Bernstein and Benjamin Pickut, this issue focuses on “historiographical and aesthetic matters and elegantly realize[s] its goal to ‘open new vistas on Cage’s work, and to challenge some of the orthodoxies that still shape the general view of his achievements’.” The issue features nine research articles and does not have reviews or other content.

Music Perception Vol. 32, No. 3 (February 2015): Special Issue on Singing Accuracy. A team of seven editors compiled this issue, which was inspired by a symposium on singing accuracy held in Seattle in October of 2013. According to the introduction, “participants proposed specific new theoretical developments” that make up the articles. The issue includes seven articles and does not have any reviews or other content.

The Opera Quarterly Vol. 30, No. 2–3 (Spring–Summer 2014): Special issue on Wagner and the Left. Matthew Wilson Smith, the guest editor, acknowledges the existing scholarship on Wagner and suggests the need to explore another angle. This issue uses a “particular lens…the Left’s encounter with Wagner—with Wagner less as object of critique than as source of inspiration, admiration, even love (and critique).” The issue includes six research articles and does not feature any reviews.

Organised Sound Vol. 19, No. 3 (December 2014): Special Issue on Mediation: Notation and Communication in Electro-acoustic Performance. Guest edited by Lonce Wyse and Ian Whalley, this issue includes articles about subjects such as “dynamic scores, graphic scoring/ representation, the role of ‘notations’ in improvisational environments, the role of gesture in sonic/visual communication, and colour in sonic/visual communication.” The issue features ten research articles and various reviews.

Popular Music and Society Vol. 38, No. 1 (February 2015): Special issue on Fandom. Editor Mark Duffett explains that the “articles that follow in this special issue, sit, in different ways, within the complex problematic mass/transformative/totemic popular music culture.” The issue also includes several book reviews and one audio review.

TRANS-Revista Transcultural de Música Vol. 18 (2014): Special Issue: Vocal Performance: New Perspectives in the Study of Vocal Music. Guest editor Úrsula San Cristobal notes that the issue’s articles “aim to illustrate the polyhedral nature of the singing voice through different methodological approaches: from philosophy to historical musicology, including ethnomusicological perspective.” Several articles and reviews are included and while some of the content is in English, the rest is in Italian and Spanish.