About the world of music (new series)
the world of music (new series) is an international peer-reviewed journal seeking a critical understanding of performing arts and cultural practices involving music, dance and theater worldwide, as well as the many contexts in which they come into being.
In this, it provides scholars from a multiplicity of academic backgrounds a forum for the discussion of musics from around the world, their dynamics and their many meanings, manifested in a variety of ever changing forms ranging from highly particular and localized systems of musical thinking in traditional musics to global (musical) cultural flows and consumption.
the world of music (new series)
.:: embraces a wide variety of approaches to the analytical study of the musics of the world, including indigenous methodologies, post-colonial, critical and queer perspectives and different indigenous methodologies.
.:: thinks across disciplinary boundaries; and
.:: strongly encourages theoretical and methodological reflections on the study of the musics of the world.
Each issue focuses on a specific topic. In a firmly established practice of the world of music and the world of music (new series), high-profile guest editors are invited to design issues and see them through the entire preparation process.
People behind the world of music (new series)
Editor in chief: Prof Dr Birgit Abels, Department of Musicology, Georg-August-University Göttingen (GER)
Birgit Abels is professor of Cultural Musicology at the Musicology Department of Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany. The geographic foci of her research are the Pacific Ocean (particularly Micronesia), the Southeast Asian island world and North India.
Co-editor: Dr Barbara Titus, University of Amsterdam (NL)
Dr Barbara Titus studied musicology at Utrecht University and gained her doctorate from Oxford University in the United Kingdom with a dissertation entitled ‘Conceptualizing music: Friedrich Theodor Vischer and Hegelian currents in German music criticism, 1848-1871.’ (Leuven University Press 2016). In 2013, she was appointed associate professor of cultural musicology at the University of Amsterdam. During two extensive field trips for her research into maskanda in 2008 and 2009, she was a visiting professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa.
Book reviews editor: Dr Sebastian Hachmeyer, Department of Musicology, Georg-August-University Göttingen (GER)
Dr Hachmeyer is a human ecologist and ethnomusicologist specializing in ecomusicology, music and environmental studies, and the anthropology of music and the environment. He received his PhD in Music (Ethnomusicology) and Geography (Environmental Geography) from Royal Holloway University of London (United Kingdom). His interdisciplinary PhD thesis “Musical Bamboos: Flute Making, Natural Resources, and Sustainability in the Bolivian Andes” addresses urgent issues related to the sustainability of native woody bamboos used in wind instrument making. Sebastian is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Göttingen’s Musicology Department. His recent work explores music and climate change in Micronesia.
Advisory Board:
Linda Barwick
Professor and Associate Dean (Research), Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney, Australia
Dan Bendrups
LaTrobe University, Australia
Martin Boiko
Associated professor, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Latvia, Latvia
Rafael José de Menezes Bastos
Professor, Department of Anthropology, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil
Shubha Chaudhuri
Director, Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology, New Delhi, India
Scheherazade Qassim Hassan
Lecturer, Department of Ethnology and Comparative Sociology, University of Paris X-Nanterre, Paris, France
Josep Martí i Pérez
Professor, Department of Musicology, Instituto Milà i Fontanals, C.S.I.C., Barcelona, Spain
Svanibor Pettan
Professor, Music Academy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Suzel Ana Reily
Reader, School of Creative Arts, Queen´s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Adelaida Reyes
Professor, Jersey City State College, Jersey City/NJ, USA
Francis Saighoe
Professor, Department of Music, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana
Huib Schippers
Director, Smithsonian Folkways, Washington/DC, USA
Yosihiko Tokumaru
Professor, Department of Music, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan
Bell Yung
Professor, Department of Music, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Bonnie Wade
Professor, Department of Music, University of California at Berkeley, USA
the world of music (new series)
a journal of the department of musicology of the georg august university göttingen
ISSN 0043 8774