[ANPPOM-Lista] Journal of World Popular Music: publication announcement

[Carlos Palombini]

*PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT*

Link to issue 4.2: https://journals.equinoxpub.co
m/index.php/JWPM/issue/view/2511

We are pleased to announce the publication of our latest issue 4.2 of
the *Journal
of World Popular Music*, an academic peer-reviewed journal that welcomes
interdisciplinary perspectives and is dedicated to the dissemination of
research on popular musics in different international and sociocultural
contexts. Over the last four years in its existence, *JWPM* has sought to
bring together the critical voices of people from around the world, placing
specific emphasis on contemporary, interdisciplinary and international
perspectives on international popular musics. The success and popularity of
JWPM within and beyond the academic community is evident in our growing
subscription rates and its inclusion in RILM Abstracts of Music Literature,
Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)/Thomson Reuters, and SCOPUS, which
is clear testament to our commitment to the highest possible publishing
standards.

Issue 4.2 of *JWPM* brings together contributions by outstanding academics
and younger scholars for a sustained exploration of popular musics in two
South American countries in a special issue entitled *Music and
Subalternity in Argentina and Brazil*. Guest-edited by *Pablo Alabarces*
 and *Felipe Trotta*, the special issue explores the question of “the
aesthetics of the periphery” and, in that regard, provides discussions as
to how popular music in countries such as Brazil and Argentina mediates
issues of social class, ethnicity and gender.

In the second part of issue 4.2 of JWPM, we are pleased to present
three *Disciplinary
Perspectives on Popular Music*, written by prominent academic colleagues
from ethnomusicology and popular music studies. Opening this section
is *Michael
B. Bakan*’s engaging keynote paper, “The Moral of the Story: Making
Ethnomusicology Matter in the Twenty-first Century”, which he presented at
the Annual Conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology in April
2017 and kindly agreed to publish in our journal. Following is *Bruno Nettl*’s
“Notes on Popular Music in my (Professional) Life”, which sketches the
author’s fifty-something years of experience with popular music as a
student of music and ethnomusicology in the United States, and as a
professional in this field. The final paper by *Motti Regev*, “Pop-Rock as
Musical Cosmopolitanism”, explores the concept of cultural cosmopolitanism
as it manifests itself through the “pop-rock aesthetic”.

To end the issue we present a series of reviews on the theme of *Popular
Music and National Identity*, written by  *Iván Darías Alfonso, Nabeel
Zuberi, Ben Green, Dijana Jelača*, and *Peter Mills*.

We hope you enjoy and learn from this marvellous and rich panorama of
papers about a wide range of fascinating and important topics on world
popular music. Please consider how you might contribute to future
issues of *Journal
of World Popular Music*, with articles, interviews, reviews, position
papers, audiovisual essays, or else. Our next regular issues will come out
in summer 2019, with a double special issue on Global Hip Hop planned in
2018, so please submit material in mid-2018 to allow plenty of time for
editing and publication. And as always, please do recommend *JWPM* to your
peers, students, librarians, friends, and others with an interest in world
popular music. Thank you for your continued interest and support!

With best regards,

Simone, Sarah and Raphaël