New Periodicals
- 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 (https://www.worldcat.org ), 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 10 September 2021 unless otherwise indicated.
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NEW TITLES
Sound Stage Screen is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that seeks to explore the historical and theoretical relations between sound, performance, and media. The journal editors encourage musicians and music scholars to submit articles on topics that address these relations, such as the reconstruction of musical performances, or the theory and history of recording, media inscription, and studio practices. By encouraging these submissions, the editors indicate on their journal’s website that they hope to initiate conversations across the music disciplines that will help “redefine the academic study of music as an open field whose boundaries . . . are constantly being negotiated.”
The inaugural issue of this journal contains four original articles that include the following topics: a case study examining reconstructed performances of nineteenth-century French melodramas; an examination of soundtrack dubbing techniques used in Italian films; a theoretical framework for analyzing the relationship between user and artifact in music-making, and a study of an opera that uses interactive technological equipment. The issue also includes book, article, and performance reviews, a forum on dramaturgy, and an interview with a performance studies musicology professor. Although much of the content in this journal requires specialized subject knowledge, readers will most likely find at least one article of interest, as the journal contains a wide range of musical topics, which is a promising indicator for the journal’s future.
Sound Stage Screen is published biannually, and the editors do not charge authors for article submissions or article processing fees. Furthermore, access to all content is free, as the journal is published under a Creative Commons license that permits people to use the content for any purpose, including commercial purposes, without permission. The only caveats are that people must properly cite the content and not apply additional restrictions to other users. chelsea hoover
Syracuse University
ELECTRONICA
Reviews, new titles, and publisher and title changes announced elsewhere in this column include additional comments about electronic access.
RILM created the following new indexing headwords this year: activism and advocacy; community music; environment; ethnography; ethnology; explorers and travelers; Indigenous peoples—Americas (replacing HW Indians and Inuits); Indigenous peoples—Arctic region; Indigenous peoples—Asia; Indigenous peoples—Oceania; neuroscience; psychoacoustics; psychoanalysis; šašmaķom; social work; speech; traditional theater—general; travel explorations; video games; video game music. Also, the theory headword was replaced by music theory, and the former headword film music and television music has been split in two: film music, television music.
Full-Text Coverage: Articles in full text increased by more than 61,000 records this year. MARC records are now available for full-text journals (and for each of RILM’s resources, downloadable from rilm.org/resources). Ten new journals were added in the first annual RAFT expansion, chosen based on the following three criteria: (1) they are of limited availability elsewhere; (2) they cover under-represented countries/ continents and languages, and (3) they provide information on lesser-known scholarship from around the world. The new additions...
