Journal of World Popular Music
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I. Basic Journal Info

Country

United Kingdom

Journal ISSN: 20524900, 20524919

Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd

History: 2014-2020

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Scope/Description:

Journal of World Popular Music is a peerreviewed academic journal that publishes research and scholarship on recent issues and debates surrounding international popular musics also known as World Music Global Pop World Beat or more recently World Music 2.0. The journal provides a forum to explore the manifestations and impacts of postglobalizing trends processes and dynamics surrounding these musics today. It adopts an openminded perspective including in its scope any local popularized musics of the world commercially available music of nonWestern origin musics of ethnic minorities and contemporary fusions or collaborations with local traditional or roots musics with Western pop and rock musics.Placing specific emphasis on contemporary interdisciplinary and international perspectives the journals special features include empirical research and scholarship into the global creative and music industries the participants of World Music the musics themselves and their representations in all media forms today among other relevant themes and issues alongside explorations of recent ideas and perspectives from popular music ethnomusicology anthropology musicology communication media and cultural studies sociology geography art and museum studies and other fields with a scholarly focus on World Music. The journal also features special guestedited issues that bring together contributions under a unifying theme or geographical area.