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Important Notice, September 21, 2022

Readers will have noticed that JMM: The Journal of Music and Meaning has lain fallow since 2018. JMM first appeared online in 2003. Video and audio files were increasingly becoming inaccessible due to the ongoing obsolescence of embedded players for audio and video content. These problems had become so widespread throughout JMM by 2018 that a major overhaul of the journal was necessary. At this time it also became evident that the long-term online existence of JMM needed to be ensured.

In order to resolve these issues, for some time now JMM has been undergoing a transition to the Open Journal System site (https://tidsskrift.dk) hosted by the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen. This moving process has proven to be extremely labor intensive, since hundreds and hundreds of files have had to be reformatted and moved manually given the need to adapt to https://tidsskrift.dk's content management system. In its new home at https://tidsskrift.dk, we will strive to recreate the look and feel of JMM as far as possible. At https://tidsskrift.dk multimedia material will be presented in such a fashion that it will not be compromised due to the vagaries of the internet as time go by. In addition, JMM will have a permanent stable home at https://tidsskrift.dk.

Within the coming months we will make the final transition to https://tidsskrift.dk and plan to relaunch JMM. Until that time we ask for continued patience on the part of our readers.

Cynthia M. Grund,  Editor-in-Chief

Michael Aktor, Editor and Webmaster

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Previous welcome notice:

Welcome to a new version of JMM!

About the New Structure

In order to facilitate a smoother editing and publishing process, JMM: The Journal of Music and Meaning has adopted a blog structure - or, rather, a structure of blogs: Each new issue will constitute a blog of its own, such that JMM vol.x will have the URL jmmx.musicandmeaning.net. New issues are announced on this page (jmm.musicandmeaning.net)

JMM14, 2016/2017

Issues Posted on Aug 01, 2017 14:25:47

[Updated January 12, 2018]

As of August 1, 2017, we have started publishing articles in the 14th issue of JMM, JMM14, which can be found at http://jmm14.musicandmeaning.net

Peer-reviewed papers published so far:

How can the understanding of analysis of sonata form movements be deepened by the use of graphic representation?” by David Ferrari, Dimitra Kokotsaki, Douglas P. Newton and Lynn Newton (published August 1, 2017)

“A Music Model of Zettel 608: Haydn and Beethoven” by Richard McDonough (published January 12, 2018)



JMM13, 2014/2015

Issues Posted on Aug 26, 2014 21:59:33

We are pleased to announce that the 13th issue of JMM, JMM13 has now been finalized, as of August 1, 2017. You can find the issue here: http://jmm13.musicandmeaning.net
A full PDF of the entire issue plus short author biographies can also be downloaded here.

Table of Contents

“The Poverty of Musical Ontology” by James O. Young

“Buñuel’s Liebestod – Wagner’s Tristan in Luis Buñuel’s early films: Un Chien Andalou and L’Âge d’Or” by Torben Sangild

“Temporality in Xenakis and Ferneyhough” by Dimitris Exarchos

“Basso: A Low Point in the Study of Musical Meaning and Metaphor” by Robert Nelson

A new issue, JMM14, has just been launched at http://jmm14.musicandmeaning.net



JMM12, 2013/2014

Issues Posted on Dec 17, 2013 12:31:06

We are pleased to announce that the 12th issue of JMM, JMM12 has now been finalized, as of August 26, 2014. You can find the issue here: http://jmm12.musicandmeaning.net.
A full PDF of the entire issue plus short author biographies can also be downloaded here.

Table of Contents

Peer-Reviewed Papers:

Nicholas McKay: “Stravinsky’s Sideward Glance: Neoclassicism, Dialogised Structures and the Reflected Discourse of Bach”.

Richard Muranda and Wonder Maguraushe: “Sungura Music’s Development in Zimbabwe: The Emergence of Trendsetters, Emulators and Copycats”

Frederico Macedo: “Space as Reference: Representations of Space in Electroacoustic Music”

Mads Walther-Hansen: “The Force Dynamic Structure of the Phonographic Container: How Sound Engineers Conceptualise the ‘Inside’ of the Mix”

A new issue, JMM13, will soon be initiated at http://jmm13.musicandmeaning.net



JMM11, 2012/2013

Issues Posted on Mar 01, 2013 08:09:21

We are pleased to announce that the publication of JMM11, the 11th issue of JMM: The Journal of Music and Meaning is now finalized, as of December 17, 2013.

You will find the website for the issue at http://jmm11.musicandmeaning.net

In addition to the blog-based format of the issue, a full PDF document of the issue can also be downloaded here.

Table of Contents:

Editorial Postscript

Peer-Reviewed Papers:

Emma Hooper: “Somewhere a Place for Us: How Intratextual Music-Association Conveys Characteral Identity in The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers”

Theodore Gracyk: “Covers and Communicative Intentions”

Lehlohonolo Phafoli and Viriri Shava: “The Use and Application of Proverbs in Basotho Accordion Music”

Martin Lawes: “Meaning, Dreaming, Relating and Levels of Consciousness in Music Psychotherapy: a Psychoanalytic, Developmental and Transpersonal Paradigm”

As of this issue, we have chosen to omit the “season” in the issue title. We have done this because the label has tended to blur the fact that there is an ongoing publication process of articles in an issue leading up to the initiation of the next issue. Besides, the season label makes less sense today than it did in the early days of JMM, considering that many of our readers now are from a different hemisphere than those of us on the editorial staff.



JMM10, Summer 2011 – Finalized in 2012

Issues Posted on Jul 20, 2011 15:26:39

We are pleased to announce that the 10th issue of JMM: The Journal of Music and Meaning the website for JMM10, the publication of which began in July, 2011, has now been finalized, as of July 7, 2012.

This was the first issue to implement the previously announced ‘rolling publication’ policy: New entries have been added to the issue as they became ready for publication.

The website for the issue can still be found at jmm10.musicandmeaning.net. In addition to the blog-based format of the issue, a full PDF document of the issue can also be downloaded here.

Table of Contents (organized according to categories):

Editorial

Peer-Reviewed Papers

Karen Fournier: “Theorizing Conceptual Change in Music Scholarship”

Dennis Kurzon: “Hush… The Lights Are Dimmed: A Case of Situational Silence”

Jeffrey N. Howard: “Harmonic Content Influence on Colour-Choice Association with Unaccompanied Tones”

Research Reports

Nicolas Marty: “‘Creavolution’ with Trevor Wishart”

Recent Publications




JMM9, Winter 2010

Issues Posted on Jan 16, 2011 16:57:55

It is with pleasure that we can announce the release of JMM9, the 9th issue of JMM: The Journal of Music and Meaning.

Read the new issue at jmm9.musicandmeaning.net

We recommend that you start by reading the Editorial of this issue, as this text introduces the new format of JMM and explains several of the new functionalities.

A full PDF document of JMM9, is also available. Click here to download it.

Table of Contents:

Editorial

Peer-Reviewed Papers

Niels Chr. Hansen, “Luciano Berio’s Sequenza V Analyzed along the Lines of Four Analytical Dimensions Proposed by the Composer”

Douglas C. Wadle, “Meaningful Scribbles: An Approach to Textual Analysis of Unconventional Musical Notations”

Adam Stansbie, “Through Thick and Thin: The Ontology of Tape Music”

Research Reports

Felipe Otondo, “Rediscovering Artaud’s Sonic Order”

Book Reviews

David Hebert, “Why Recorded Music Matters: A Review Essay” – review of Amanda Bayley’s Recorded Music: Performance, Culture and Technology (Cambridge University Press, 2010)

Recent Publications



JMM8, Winter 2009

Issues Posted on Dec 15, 2010 17:53:37

Table of Contents:

Editorial

Peer-Reviewed Papers

Mariana Julieta Lopez & Sandra Pauletto, “The Design of an Audio Film: Portraying Story, Action and Interaction through Sound”

Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen, “Anticipation and Delay as Micro-Rhythm and Gesture in Hip Hop Aesthetics”

Research Reports

Soubhik Chakraborty, Rayalla Ranganayakulu, Shivee Chauhan, Sandeep Singh Solanki & Kartik Mahto, “A Statistical Analysis of Raga Ahir Bhairav”

Fredrik Søegaard & Claus Gahrn, “Soundmapping the Genes”

Essays

Edward Green, “Haydn’s Secret ‘Dodecaphonic’ Art”

Recent Publications



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