Open Access Music Journals
British Postgraduate Musicology
publisher: British Postgraduate Musicology
language: English
start year: 1997
frequency: annual
peer-reviewed?: yes
about: a journal run "by postgraduates for
postgraduates;" it began as a print publication in 1997 and moved
online in 2001
Chapter&Verse:
A Journal of Popular Music and Literature Studies
publisher: PopMatters Media, Inc.
language: English
start year: 2004
frequency: semiannual
peer-reviewed?: yes
about: "explores the creative intersection between popular
music and the written word - novels and short stories, plays and
poetry, journalism and criticism"
Critical Studies
in Improvisation/Études critiques en improvisation
publisher: University of Guelph
language: English and French
start year: 2004
frequency: semiannual
peer-reviewed?: yes
about: a journal focused on improvisation as a social and
musical practice
De Musica
publisher: Dipartimento di Filosofia, Università
di Milano
language: Italian, with occasional English
start year: 1997
frequency: annual
peer-reviewed?: yes
about: an online journal dedicated to the philosophy, aesthetics,
and theory of music
Discourses in Music
publisher: University of Toronto, Faculty
of Music
language: English
start year: 2000
frequency: two or three times a year
peer-reviewed?: yes
about: intended as a forum for graduate students and recent
graduates, the journal "is dedicated to developing and maintaining
a dialogue on musical and aesthetic matters among graduate music
students across Canada"
ECHO: a music-centered journal
publisher: Department of Musicology, University
of California, Los Angeles
language: English
start year: 1999
frequency: semiannual
peer-reviewed?: yes
about: an interdisciplinary journal created and edited by
graduate students in the Department of Musicology at UCLA; "articles
address music in diverse social contexts, and are not confined to
any geographically, historically, or methodologically bounded genre"
Electronic Musicological
Review
publisher: Federal University of Paraná, Arts
Department
language: English and Portuguese
start year: 1996
frequency: irregular
peer-reviewed?: yes
about: "Its main goal is to foster research in the fields
of Brazilian music, music technology and critical (or "new") musicology."
Ethnomusicology Online (EOL)
publisher: EOL; hosted at University of Maryland,
Baltimore County
language: English
start year: 1995
frequency: annual
peer-reviewed?: yes
about: publishes articles and reviews in ethnomusicology
and related disciplines
EUNOMIOS
publisher: Eunomios
language: primarily English
start year: 2000
frequency: content is added irregularly, without volume or
issue numbers
peer-reviewed?: no
about: "hosts user-contributed papers on topics concerning
theory, analysis, and semiotics of music"
Frankfurter Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft
publisher: Frankfurter Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft
language: German, with occasional English
start year: 1998
frequency: annual
peer-reviewed?: yes
about: a musicology journal containing articles, reviews,
and reports; the journal is not limited to any particular theme
G.E.M.S. (Gender, Education, Music, and Society)
publisher: Gender Research in Music Education International (GRIME International)
language: English
start year: 2002
frequency: irregular
peer-reviewed?: yes
about: "explores the myriad intersections between gender, education, music and society. Emphasis is on the ways in which music teaching and learning can be used to re-dress and eliminate inequalities."
International Journal of Community Music
publisher: New York University, Steinhardt School of Education
language: English
start year: 2004
frequency: semiannual
peer-reviewed?: yes
about: publishes research articles, discussions, and reviews on all aspects of community music
JEMS: Journal
of Experimental Music Studies
publisher: JEMS, hosted by the Experimental
Music Catalogue
language: English
start year: 2004
frequency: content is added irregularly, without volume or
issue numbers
peer-reviewed?: yes
about: a journal devoted to experimental music, systems and
minimalism, free improvisation, "new" tonality, and other, related
issues
JMM: The Journal of Music and Meaning
publisher: University of Southern Denmark
language: English
start year: 2003
frequency: semiannual
peer-reviewed?: yes
about: "JMM aims to bridge the gap between various studies in meaning and signification and areas of research in music."
Journal of Seventeenth-Century
Music
publisher: Society for Seventeenth-Century
Music
language: English
start year: 1995
frequency: annual
peer-reviewed?: yes
about: provides a "peer-reviewed forum for scholarly
studies of the musical cultures of the seventeenth century"
Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland (JSMI)
publisher: Society for Music in Ireland
language: English
start year: 2005
frequency: annual
peer-reviewed?: yes
about: exists to promote Irish musicological scholarship, including topics concerning
Ireland and its music, as well as articles by Irish authors or authors based in Ireland
Min-ad: Israel Studies
in Musicology Online
publisher: Israel Musicological Society
language: English
start year: 1999
frequency: irregular
peer-reviewed?: yes
about: publishes articles and reviews in diverse areas of
musical research
Music & Anthropology:
Journal of Musical Anthropology of the Mediterranean
publisher: M&A, hosted at Università di Bologna
language: English, with some content also available in Italian
start year: 1996
frequency: annual
peer-reviewed?: yes
about: an interdisciplinary journal serving as a "forum for
studies which approach music as an essentially human and social
expression"
Music & Politics
publisher: University of California, Santa Barbara
language: English
start year: 2007
frequency: semiannual
peer-reviewed?: yes
about: Covers such areas as the impact of politics on the lives of musicians, music as a form of political discourse, and the influences of ideology on musical historiography.
Music Theory Online
publisher: Society for Music Theory
language: English
start year: 1993
frequency: varies - four to six times a year
peer-reviewed?: yes
about: provides articles, commentaries, reports, book reviews,
and announcements of conferences, job vacancies, and new dissertations
NTAMA: Journal of African Music
and Popular Culture
publisher: Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien,
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
language: primarily English, with some French and German
start year: 2001
frequency: content is added irregularly, without volume or
issue numbers
peer-reviewed?: yes
about: publishes articles, reviews, and event notices related
to African popular music
Online Journal of Bass Research (OJBR)
publisher: International Society of Bassists
language: English
start year: 2003
frequency: semiannual
peer-reviewed?: yes
about: publishes scholarly research pertaining to the double bass and
related bowed bass instruments
Polish Music Journal
publisher: Polish Music Center at the University
of Southern California
language: English
start year: 1998
frequency: semiannual
peer-reviewed?: yes
about: is devoted to musicological studies of Polish music
and music in Poland, particularly music that is not well-known in
the West
Popular Musicology
Online
publisher: University of Salford, Department
of Music and University of Oslo, Department of Music and Theatre
language: English
start year: 2000
frequency: content is added irregularly, without volume or
issue numbers
peer-reviewed?: yes
about: PMO is the online successor to Popular Musicology
Quarterly; "it addresses the problematics of examining popular music,
offering a platform to academics seeking new methodological avenues
for musicological inquiry"
Research and Issues in
Music Education (RIME)
publisher: rimeonline.org
language: English
start year: 2003
frequency: annual
peer-reviewed?: yes
about: purpose is "to provide a forum devoted to thorough
research and commentary that energizes, informs, advances, and reforms
the practice and pedagogy of music teaching"
Resonance:
An Interdisciplinary Music Journal
publisher: University of Southern California
language: English
start year: 2004
frequency: annual
peer-reviewed?: yes
about: aims to promote interdisciplinary research; accepts contributions from
graduate or professional students at any stage of their academic career
Samples: Notizen, Projekte
und Kurzbeiträge zur Popularmusikforschung
publisher: Arbeitskreises populäre Musik e.V.
(ASPM)
language: German
start year: 2002
frequency: annual
peer-reviewed?: no
about: publishes short papers on popular music research,
as well as reports on work in progress, conference reports, and
other news
Sapaan
publisher: Sapaan
language: English
start year: 2003
frequency: semiannual
peer-reviewed?: yes
about: a "music theory journal which publishes analytical
and critical essays in a wide variety of domains, and of all music
past and present"
Sound Journal
publisher: Sound Journal
language: English
start year: 1998
frequency: content is added irregularly, without volume or
issue numbers
peer-reviewed?: yes
about: an interdisciplinary journal examining sound in all
its aspects
Soundscapes
publisher: Soundscapes
language: primarily English, with some Dutch, German, and
French
start year: 1998
frequency: quarterly
peer-reviewed?: yes
about: "an online journal on the history and social significance
of media culture"
STM Online
publisher: Svenska samfundet för musikforskning
language: primarily Swedish
start year: 1998
frequency: annual
peer-reviewed?: yes
about: the electronic sister publication of Svensk tidskrift
för musikforskning; primary interest is in articles related to Swedish
or Nordic music
Trans: Transcultural
Music Review = Revista transcultural de música
publisher: La Sociedad de Etnomusicología
(SIbE)
language: Spanish, with some English
start year: 1995
frequency: annual
peer-reviewed?: yes
about: "explores all kinds of music from transcultural and
interdisciplinary perspectives"
Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy
publisher: Sogn og Fjordane University College
in affiliation with the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy and in collaboration
with the World Federation of Music Therapy
language: primarily English
start year: 2001
frequency: triannual
peer-reviewed?: yes
about: this journal encourages participation from every continent
and "intends to nurture the development of music therapy practice,
theory, discussion and debate"
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