Music: Open Source Journals

"emphasis on improvisation as a site for the analysis of social practice. We contend that improvisation demands shared responsibility for participation in community, an ability to negotiate differences, and a willingness to accept the challenges of risk and contingency. Yet improvisation is a contested term. Its cultural significance is in dispute both in the academy and in the broader public understanding. CSI/ECI seeks to reveal the complex structures of improvisational practices and to develop an enriched understanding of the social, political, and cultural functions those practices play."

"EMR aims to facilitate communication and debate between scholars engaged in systematic and observation-based music scholarship. Debate is promoted through publication of commentaries on research articles."

composition, early music, ethnomusicology, gender studies in music, interdisciplinary studies in music, music education, music technologies, musicology, performance practice, popular music

"promotes a positive intellectual environment within all of music research by facilitating and encouraging productive interactions between the humanities and sciences. JIMS aims to give individual music researchers the freedom and ability to collaborate with colleagues from contrasting disciplines that are relevant to their particular research interests and questions. JIMS aims to expose and deconstruct significant impediments to such interactions, whether they be associated with research environments (institutions and infrastructues) or traditions (culture and psychology). JIMS draws attention to epistemological differences and associated tensions and taboos within musicology, with the aim of developing the means to overcome them."

"The Kapralova Society is a non-profit arts organization based in Toronto, Canada. Founded by Karla Hartl in 1998, the Society's mission is to promote the music of Czech composer Vitezslava Kapralova (1915-1940), and to build awareness of women's contributions to musical life."

"Filling a well-defined gap in the literature of jazz, Current Research in Jazz provides an outlet for detailed writing about jazz that is informed by musical and historical knowledge, that is rooted in scholarly rigor, and that is not compromised by commercial interests. It is hoped that these articles will be cited and used as evidence in other works. Like good discographies, th"ey will provide a solid foundation upon which future research can be built.

"a forum for the ever-expanding range and depth of jazz scholarship, from technical analyses to oral history to bibliography to cultural interpretation"

"outstanding scholarship related to the study and performance of choral music. The journal welcomes submissions from scholars in all disciplines, including choral conductors, musicologists, music theorists, vocal pedagogues, music educators, and those from outside of music whose research specifically relates to choral music."

"original articles and reviews related to teaching music history of all levels (undergraduate, graduate, or general studies) and disciplines (western, non-western, concert and popular musics). The JMHP holds no single viewpoint on what constitutes good teaching and endorses all types of scholarship on music history pedagogy that are well-researched, objective, and challenging. The JMHP is a publication of the Pedagogy Study Group of the American Musicological Society"

"Emphasis is on the ways in which music teaching and learning can be used to re-dress and eliminate inequalities brought about through ideologies of domination by creating an open-ness to musical experience that promotes access to all. (And, thus by extension, also the ways in which music teaching and learning have not been transformative in the past). Gender is approached, not as male or female, but as a continuum of possibilities implicated by sexualities and sustained by socially and historically constructed notions of masculinity and femininity that interact in complex, often competing and contradictory ways."

"Brings together dynamic, critical interdisciplinary research at 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 brought about through ideologies of domination by creating an open-ness to musical experience that promotes access to all."

"scholarly studies of the musical cultures of the seventeenth century. These include historical and archival studies, performance practice, music theory, aesthetics, dance, and theater. JSCM also publishes critical reviews and summary listings of recently published books, scores, and electronic media."

"multi-disciplinary publication concerned with the performance practices of music and dance in Ireland, currently and historically. The focus of the journal will predominantly be those unique to this island, but not exclusively so."

topics concerning Ireland and its music, articles by Irish authors or by authors based in Ireland. Yet this is just one focus and is not intended to exclude contributions of other kinds.

covers diverse areas of music research (historical, theoretical, analytical, ethnic, educational, and cognitive); some articles focus on Israeli, Judaic and Hebrew music.

"The increasing diversity of topics in, and approaches to, theory and analysis opens the way for articles of interest to a wider online audience. In an effort to broaden the topics and music-theoretical and analytical ideas presented in Gamut, we especially encourage submissions from authors whose knowledge of other disciplines can contribute to musical understanding."

"works related to the empirical study of the everyday interplay of people and the arts. Particular interest is accorded to exploring the tacit uses of music and arts found in a wide range of social situations, from intimate encounters to public spectacles. The key focus is on individuals, groups, activity and communication, while also keeping the artistic work, performance, score or experience (along with questions of aesthetics and affordances) at the centre of the enquiry."

interest include, but are not limited to, the impact of politics on the lives of musicians, music as a form of political discourse, and the influences of ideology on musical historiography.

"a rolling journal, in that suitable articles are added as they are accepted, to provide the most recent available research in the field of experimental music.  Jems is a free publication hosted by the Experimental Music Catalogue."