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MESSAGE FOLLOWS:
London, UK (June 08, 2017). SAGE Publishing today announced a
partnership with the Society for Education, Music and Psychology
Research (SEMPRE) to launch a new open access journal Music & Science,
providing a platform for engaged debate and insight into music
research from a wide range of scientific perspectives.
Scientific research is integral to gaining a greater understanding of
how music is a cultural phenomenon and is yet grounded in our biology.
Interdisciplinary in scope and focus, the journal will publish
research from a wide cross-section of disciplines and perspectives
that will illuminate—or that can be illuminated by—scientific
approaches to understanding music, from cognition, neuroscience and
psychoacoustics to computational approaches and studies in digital
culture. The first papers are due to be published in September 2017.
Editor-in-Chief Ian Cross remarked:
“Our point of departure is the idea that science—or, more accurately,
the sciences—can help us to make sense of music and its significance
in our lives. This journal is a much needed space for scholars to
communicate new insights in music and science research, helping to
broaden our understanding of how music, culture and biology are
linked. Together with SAGE Publishing and SEMPRE, I am excited to
bring this new forum into the community, and look forward to debating
and sharing new ideas with a broad and international audience base.”
Graham Welch, SEMPRE Chair, commented:
“Two years in the planning, the new online, open-access journal Music
& Science has been developed in recognition of the ever-expanding
fields of research related to music. Over the past five years, our
analysis shows that there has been wide disciplinary development
across the sciences and music and consequently we would like to
celebrate and support these advances by bringing such research under
one multi-science publication umbrella in order to nurture new
knowledge, new audiences and greater cross- and interdisciplinary
recognition. Such a journal is intended to expand our horizons whilst
complementing SEMPRE's existing journals.”
Miranda Nunhofer, Executive Director, Humanities and Social Science
Journals, SAGE Publishing, further commented:
“Music & Science is an exciting new open access venue for the
publication of new insights across the expanding research field of
music and science. We are delighted to be working with SEMPRE to
facilitate the publication and dissemination of research in this
innovative and interdisciplinary area of study. The journal is an
exciting new addition to our expanding open access programme at SAGE,
and to our portfolio of music journals.”
Find out more about the journal:
https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/music-science/journal202491.
Sara Miller McCune founded SAGE Publishing in 1965 to support the
dissemination of usable knowledge and educate a global community. SAGE
is a leading international provider of innovative, high-quality
content publishing more than 1,000 journals and over 800 new books
each year, spanning a wide range of subject areas. Our growing
selection of library products includes archives, data, case studies
and video. SAGE remains majority owned by our founder and after her
lifetime will become owned by a charitable trust that secures the
company’s continued independence. Principal offices are located in Los
Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington DC and Melbourne.
http://www.sagepublishing.com
Music & Science journal aims to be truly interdisciplinary: to give
researchers from the many different scientific traditions that have
been applied to music the opportunity to communicate with—and to learn
from—each other, while encouraging dialogue with music scholars whose
work is situated in artistic, performative or humanistic traditions.
The Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE) was
founded in 1972, growing out of the Reading Conferences on Research in
Music Education that were started in 1966 by Arnold Bentley.
Originally known as the 'Society for Research in Psychology of Music
and Music Education' ('SRPMME'), SEMPRE remains to this day the only
society which embraces research in both music education and music
psychology, providing an international forum to encourage the exchange
of ideas and to disseminate research findings.
http://www.sempre.org.uk/
