Music Research Annual

Available Now: "Music and (Linguistic) Meaning"

Addressing the question of whether music has linguistic meaning, Andy Hamilton rejects the idea that music can be understood as a language, arguing instead that both phenomena are inter-penetrating concepts, with neither language nor music subordinate to the other.

Available now at https://musicresearchannual.org/hamilton-music-and-linguistic-meaning-3/

Music at Memorial
Memorial University, Newfoundland and Labrador
MMaP Research Centre
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Memorial University

Volume 5–6 of Music Research Annual is now complete! In addition to two substantial review essays of music handbooks—the journal's newest feature—this volume also features the longest article ever published by Music Research Annual!

All of the articles in volume 5–6, as well as all of our past volumes, can be accessed at www.musicresearchannual.org

MMaP Research Centre
Music at Memorial
Memorial University, Newfoundland and Labrador
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Memorial University

Available Now: "Popular Music and the Digital Shift: History Economics, Listening, Organology, and Aesthetics."

In the substantial article, Phillipe Le Guern and Paul J.F. Fleury examine the shift towards digital technologies in the music industry,, tracing both its history as well as the profound impacts it has had on how we understand, consume, and create music.

Available now at https://musicresearchannual.org/le-guern-and-fleury-popular-music-and-the-digital-shift-3/

Music at Memorial
Memorial University, Newfoundland and Labrador
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Memorial University
MMaP Research Centre

Available Now: Review of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Policy.

In this substantial review essay, Brian Fauteux highlights the importance of policymaking and the potential avenues for new research opened in this recent handbook, edited by Shane Homan.

Available now at https://musicresearchannual.org/fauteux-bloomsbury-handbook-review-2/

Music at Memorial
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Memorial University
Memorial University, Newfoundland and Labrador
MMaP Research Centre

Available Now: Review of the Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness!

In this substantial review essay, Xavier Livermon explores the content and research avenues explored in the recent Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness.

Available now at https://musicresearchannual.org/livermon-oxford-handbook-review-2/

Music at Memorial
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Memorial University
Memorial University, Newfoundland and Labrador

Now Available! “Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Music Entrepreneurship.”

The advent of the digital age has transformed not only the music industry, but also the way musicians approach their careers. In this article, Marc Perrenoud explores the modern concept of the musician as entrepreneur and the varied ways in which this term has been understood both socially and commercially.

Read the Full-Article Now at https://musicresearchannual.org/perrenoud-multidisciplinary-perspectives-on-music-entrepreneurship-2/

Music at Memorial
Memorial University, Newfoundland and Labrador
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Memorial University
MMaP Research Centre

Now Available! “Metamorphosis of Media in the Life of Audio Documents: Preservation, Restoration, and Critical Editing of Twentieth-Century Western Art Music”

How do you preserve electronic and mixed-media music that was written for and dependent on increasingly obsolete technology? In this essay, Luca Cossettini and Angelo Orcalli argue that the preservation of audio documents cannot follow the “best copy” standard often applied to written music. Instead, we must acknowledge that any effort to preserve these works by transferring them to new media will transform the identify of the work, as well as our understanding of it.

Read the full article now at https://musicresearchannual.org/cossettini-and-orcalli-metamorphosis-of-media/

Now available! "Streaming Music: Will Digital Rights Management Have a Place in a Blockchained World?"

In this study of commercialized digital music, Patrick Burkart examines the interaction and possibilities between well-known digital rights management technologies (DRM) and emerging decentralized finance technologies (DeFi). The article presents some of the promises – such as better royalties distribution – and potential challenges – such as regulatory changes for cryptocurrencies – of the new blockchain technologies in music.

Read the full article here: https://musicresearchannual.org/burkart-streaming-music-2/

Out Now! Transnational Sharedness: Social Dynamics of Circulation and Appropriation in "Global" Music Genres

What does it mean for music to be "global"? In this essay, Alice Aterianus-Owanga uses diverse literature from multiple disciplines to critique the concept of "global genres" and "world music," inviting us to think about connections among different histories and transnational sharing in the music practice. Salsa, jazz, hip-hop, and rap are adapted to local scenes in various countries, shaping new musical practices and transnational communities.

Read the full article here: https://musicresearchannual.org/aterianus-owanga-transnational-sharedness-2/

Out Now! A Social History of Music in US Schools: The Coalescence of Research and
Practice

While music has been a part of American school curriculums for nearly two centuries, its
status within the school system remains surprisingly unsettled. Outlining the history of music education and pedagogy in US Schools, Campbell and Dahm shed light on how the benefits and purpose of music in the US school system continues to be a source of debate.

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https://musicresearchannual.org/campbell-dahm-music-in-us-schools-2/

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Out now! Ecomusicology: Tributaries and Distributaries of an Integrative Field

What role does music play in a time of environmental crisis? Surveying the cross-disciplinary field of ecomusicology, the authors trace how scholarship has situated music and music-making not only as a reflection of the natural world, but also as a means by which we can understand and even impact the world around us.

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https://musicresearchannual.org/pedelty-et-al-ecomusicology-tributaries-and-distributaries-of-an-integrative-field/

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Out now! Sally Treloyn’s “Intergenerational Knowledges: Change and Continuity in Music Transmission and Ethnomusicological Praxis”

Scholars have traditionally viewed musical transmission as a hierarchical practice, with knowledge moving from the old to the young. Drawing on her research of Indigenous communities in Australia, Treloyn reconceptualizes musical transmission as both multidirectional and multimodal, with all generations using a variety of tools and techniques to share their musical practices. In light of this approach, Treloyn asks scholars to reflect on how they conduct their research and the musical communities they study.

Read the full article here:
https://musicresearchannual.org/treloyn-intergenerational-knowledges-2/