History of the Journal:
1.the world of music: Idea and Concept(vol. 39, 1997 ff.)
The English-language journal the world of music has been published since 1997 at the Department of Ethnomusicology of the University of Bamberg by Max Peter Baumann (Editor) and Linda Fujie (Co-Editor, 1997-2002) and by the VWB-Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung in Berlin (ISSN 0043-8774). Since 2003 Jonathan Stock (University of Sheffield, England) has served as Co-Editor, Tina K. Ranmarine (Royal Holloway University of London) as Book Review Editor, and Gregory F. Barz (Vanderbilt University, Nashville) as Record Review Editor. (See also Impressum.) The journal appears as a scholarly oriented periodical three times a year. Each issue contains approximately 160 to 200 pages. As an intercultural journal, the world of music deals with the multifarious musical traditions of the world. Other forms of artistic expression that have a close relationship to music also receive attention in the world of music. The journal contains articles that have been written by (ethno-)musicologists, anthropologists and others in related fields who are of international reputation. Each article is refereed before being published. In addition, a high level of professional competence is also guaranteed by the practice—now firmly established in a series of issues—of inviting well-known scholars to serve for one issue of the journal as Guest Editors. The Editors invite these to design a concept for an issue on a topic that involves their special research area and to supervise the carrying out of this design.
The journal the world of music presents original articles concerning music, dance and theater from the perspectives of musicology, anthropology and folklore. By emphasizing particular regional and thematic aspects of music-making and documentation, the world of music focuses an the diversity and variety of musical traditions of the world. Articles cover a broad range of interests, from methodological as well as ethnographic perspectives. Normally, one of three issues a year concentrates an a theoretical or systematic topic, a second one is concerned with a specific geographic region, and a third is reserved for outstanding topical contributions from individual scholars. The Journal delves into descriptions of entire musical cultures and ethnic groups, as well as into particular paradigms of music, song, dance and theater. The world of music presents scholarly research from around the world, thus functioning as a forum for discussion from an intercultural viewpoint and furthering the development of scholarly dialogue concerning the musical cultures of the world. Each issue is richly illustrated by numerous photographs, graphics and musical examples.
2. the world of music on the Internet
Further information on issues of the world of music since 1977 is available on the World Wide Web. An overview of titles, tables of contents and abstracts to individual articles are provided. Sound examples to complement specific articles can also be heard.
Look under the following addresses:
Impressum and Overview (Contents / Abstracts / Publisher)
The world of music bibliography
3. Survey of Specific Topical Volumes
The following topical volumes with specific regional and/or thematic emphases have appeared since 1977:
Universals I (Vol. 19, 1977/1-2)
The Arab World (Vol. 20, 1978/1)
Musicultura (Vol. 20, 1978/2)
Symbolism in Music (Vol. 20, 1978/3)
Masks I (Vol. 22, 1980/1)
Towards a World History of Music (Vol. 22, 1980/3)
Masks II (Vol. 23, 1981/3)
Latin America (Vol. 24, 1982/2)
Sacred Music I (Vol. 24. 1982/3)
Japan (Vol. 25, 1983/1)
Aesthetics (Vol. 25, 1983/3)
Universals II (Vol. 26, 1984/2)
Sacred Music II (Vol. 26, 1984/3)
China (Vol. 27, 1985/1)
Korea (Vol. 27, 1985/2)
Mechanisms of Change (Vol. 28, 1986/1)
Islam (Vol. 28, 1986/3)
Children's Music and Musical Instruments (Vol. 29, 1987/3)
Musicology / Ethnomusicology (Vol. 29, 1987/1)
Index 1977-1987 (Vol. 30, 1988/1)
Brazil (Vol. 30, 1988/2)
Musical Iconography (Vol. 30, 1988/3)
South Africa (Vol. 31, 1989/91)
Film and Video in Ethnomusicology (Vol. 31, 1989/3)
Oceania (Vol. 32, 1990/1)
India (Vol. 32, 1990/2)
Music and Forced Migration (Vol. 30, 1990/3)
Women in Music and Music Research (Vol. 33, 1991/2)
New Perspectives an Improvisation (Vol. 33, 1991/3)
Music and Spiritual Power among the Indians of North America (Vol. 34, 1992/2)
Ethnomusicology and Music Cognition (Vol. 34, 1992/3)
Emics and Etics in Ethnomusicology (Vol. 35, 1993/1)
The Politics and Aesthetics of "World Music" (Vol. 35, 1993/2)
Power-Laden Australian Aboriginal Songs: Who Should Control the Research (Vol. 36, 1994/1)
Guitar in Africa: 1950s-1990s (Vol. 36, 1994/2)
Jewish Musical Culture—Past and Present (Vol. 37, 1995/1)
Working with Blacking: The Belfast Years (Vol. 37, 1995/2)
Music of the Roma (Vol. 38, 1996/1)
Historical Performance Practices Across the Pacific (Vol. 38, 1996/2)
Folk Music Revival in Europe (Vol. 38, 1996/3)
Music and Healing in Transcultural Perspectives (Vol. 39, 1997/1)
Cultural Concepts of Hearing and Listening (Vol. 39, 1997/2)
Music, the Arts and Ritual (Vol. 40, 1998/1)
Old Instruments in New Contexts (Vol. 40, 1998/2)
Music and Music Research in Croatia (Vol. 40, 1998/3)
Hearing and Listening in Cultural Context (Vol. 41, 1999/1)
Traditional Music in Bavaria: Regional Identity, History and Culture (Vol. 41, 1999/2)
Music, Travel and Tourism (Vol. 41, 1999/3)
Gothic, Metal, Rap, and Rave—Youth Education and Its Educational Dimensions (Vol. 42, 2000/1)
Spirit Practices in a Global Ecumene (Vol. 42, 2000/2)
Local Musical Traditions in the Globalization Process (Vol. 42, 2000/3)
Ethnomusicology and the Individual (Vol. 43, 2001/1)
Folk Music in Public Performance (Vol. 43, 2001/2-3)
Indigenous Popular Music in North America: Continuations and Innovations (Vol. 44, 2002/1).
Body and Ritual in Buddhist Musical Cultures (Vol. 44, 2002/2).
Traditional Music in the Baltic Countries (Vol. 44,2002/3).
Contesting Tradition: Cross Cultural Studies of Musical Competition (Vol. 45, 2003/1).
4. History of the Journal
The journal was begun in 1959 under the title the world of music. Bulletin of the International Music Council. From 1959 to 1966, it served as the international means of communication for the International Music Council in the English, French and German languages. Individual leading articles, reports of national committees, information on concert events and conferences and reviews of publications were published. Illustrations of diverse areas of international music life complemented the magazine. It appeared predominantly during this period on a bi-monthly basis.
From 1967, under the new editors John Evarts (Editor) and Rudolf Heinemann (Assistant Editor), the Bulletin was redesigned into a quarterly journal. It appeared from 1974 in cooperation with, and under the editorship of, the International Institute for Comparative Music Studies and Documentation (IICMSD), Berlin, with the tri-lingual title: The World of Music/Die Welt der Musik/La monde de la musique. Quarterly Journal of the International Music Council (UNESCO) in Association with the International Institute for Comparative Music Studies and Documentation.
With its association with the Institute in Berlin—which in 1991 was renamed "International Institute for Traditional Music"—the journal shifted its emphasis increasingly towards the different musical traditions of the world. The information section of the International Music Council receded into the background. With its next Editor, Ivan Vandor—who also served as Director of the Institute—as well as the financial support of the Berlin Senate, the journal began from 1975 to orient itself more towards ethnomusicological points of view, bringing "aspects of musical traditions of the world" (Vandor) up for discussion (cf. Index of the world of music 1977-1987, vol. 30, 1988/1).
From 1975, the title of the journal reflected the period when it was edited and published in Berlin and the institutions with which it was then associated. It was then called The World of Music. Journal of the International Institute for Comparative Music Studies and Documentation (Berlin) in Association with the International Music Council (UNESCO).
Max Peter Baumann, who in the fall of 1987 began as the new Director of the Berlin Institute, took over the editorship of the journal from Ivan Vandor in 1988. the world of music then became a fully Institute-related publication. Its title from 1988 was the world of music/Die Welt der Musik/Le Monde de la musique. Journal of the International Institute for Comparative Music Studies and Documentation.With the change of the name of the Berlin Institute in 1991, the title became simply, the world of music. Journal of the International Institute for Traditional Music. All articles were then published uniformly in English, that is, without the French or German summaries that had previously appeared. The length of individual articles could thus be expanded considerably, and the journal also received a new look. After the Berlin Senate (as the administrative organ of Berlin) no longer provided the funds to sponsor the International Institute for Traditional Music due to drastic cutbacks, Max Peter Baumann and Linda Fujie assumed the editorship of the world of music together with the Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung (Berlin) and under the sponsorship of the University of Bamberg (Department of Ethnomusicology). In terms of content, the journal has maintained its ethnomusicological emphasis. As a rule, individual volumes are designed around a specific theme.
Since 1997, the journal carries the following name:
the world of music. Journal of the Department of Ethnomusicology, Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg.
Editor: Max Peter Baumann; Co-Editor: Linda Fujie; Book Review Editor: Jonathan Stock; Record Review Editor: Janet L. Sturman.
Berlin: VWB—Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung. ISSN 0043-8774.
5. Title and Impressum:
vol. 1, 1959—vol. 45, 2003
the world of music 1959-1966
the world of music 1967-1974
the world of music 1975-1977
the world of music 1978-1988
the world of music 1989-1990
the world of music 1991-1996
the world of music 1997-2003
the world of music 1959-1966:
vol. 1, 1959(1-4) and vol. 2, 1960(1-6)—vol. 8, 1966(1-6):
The World of Music.
Bulletin of the International Music Council / Bulletin du Conseil International de la Musique / Organ des Internationalen Musikrates. Published quarterly by the International Music Council with the assistance of UNESCO.
Executive Secretary: Jack Bornoff / Andre Jurres
Associate Executive Secretary: John Evarts
(with English, French and German contributions and information).
Printed and distributed by Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe (Germany)
Vol. 1, 1959 (four times a year)
Vols. 2, 1960—8, 1966 (six times a year).
the world of music 1967-1974:
vol. 9, 1967(1-4)—vol. 16, 1974(1-4):
The World of Music / Die Welt der Musik / La monde de la musique.
Quarterly Journal of the International Music Council (UNESCO) in Association with the International Institute for Comparative Music Studies and Documentation.
Editor: John Evarts
Assistant Editor: Rudolf Heinemann with Christian Poche / Wilfried Scepan / Ivan Vandor (Berlin)
1967-1974: Kassel, Basel, Paris, London, New York: Bärenreiter
1970-1974, Mainz: B. Schott's Söhne
Von 1973: Published with the assistance of the Berlin Senate
the world of music 1975-1977:
vol. 17, 1975(1-4)—vol. 19, 1977(1-4):
The World of Music / Die Welt der Musik / Le monde de la musique.
Quarterly Journal of the International Institute for Comparative Music Studies and Documentation (Berlin) in Association with the International Music Council (UNESCO). Published with Assistance of the Berlin Senate and UNESCO.
Editor: Ivan Vandor
Assistant Editor: Wilfried Scepan, Marie-Francoise Guilluy / Beatrix Schulz-Raanan / Ulrich Wegner
1975-1976: Mainz: B. Schott's Söhne
1977: Cosenza, Italy: Edizioni Lerici
the world of music 1978-1988:
Vol. 20, 1978(1-3)—30, 1988(1-3)
The World of Music / Die Welt der Musik / Le monde de la musique.
Journal of the International Institute for Comparative Music Studies and Documentation (Berlin) in Association with the International Music Council (UNESCO). Published with Assistance of the Berlin Senate and UNESCO.
Editor: Ivan Vandor
Assistant Editor: Wilfried Scepan, Marie-Francoise Guilluy / Beatrix Schulz-Raanan / Ulrich Wegner
1978-1984: Wilhelmshaven: Heinrichshofen's Verlag
1985-1988: Wilhelmshaven: Florian Noetzel Verlag, Heinrichshofen Books
1988 (1-3): Editor: Max Peter Baumann
Assistant Editor: Ulrich Wegner
Review Editor: Habib Hassan Touma.
the world of music 1989-1990:
vol. 31, 1989(1-3)—vol. 32, 1990(1-3):
The World of Music / Die Welt der Musik / Le monde de la musique.
Journal of the International Institute for Comparative Music Studies and Documentation (Berlin).
Editor: Max Peter Baumann
Assistant Editor: Ulrich Wegner
Review Editor: Habib Hassan Touma.
1988-1995: Wilhelmshaven: Florian Noetzel Verlag, Heinrichshofen Books.
the world of music 1991-1996:
33, 1991(1-3)—38, 1996(1-3):
the world of music.
Journal of the International Institute for Traditional Music (IITM).
Editor: Max Peter Baumann
Assistant Editor: Ulrich Wegner
Review Editor: Habib Hassan Touma
Record Review Editor: Janet L. Sturman (from 1995).
1991-1995: Wilhelmshaven: Florian Noetzel Verlag, Heinrichshofen Books.
1996: Berlin: VWB—Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung.
the world of music 1997-2003:
Vol. 39, 1997(1-3)—45, 2003(1-3), on:
the world of music.
Journal of the Department of Ethnomusicology, Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg.
Editor: Max Peter Baumann
Co-Editor: Linda Fujie (1997-2002); Jonathan Stock (since 2003)
Book Review Editor: Jonathan Stock (1998-2002); Tina K. Ramnarine (since 2003)
Record Review Editor: Janet L. Sturman (1997-2001); Gregory F. Barz (since 2002)
Berlin: VWB—Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung. ISSN 0043-8774
Max Peter Baumann
last revision:
Thursday, March 30, 2006
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