Tag Archives: Music magazines
RoJaRo
Established by Kjetil Maria Aase in 1990, RoJaRo is a continuously updated index of jazz and popular music magazines. This resource is intended to be inclusive, indexing little-known fanzines as well as well-known publications; it also presents hyperlinked lists of … Continue reading
Filed under Jazz and blues, Music magazines, Popular music, Resources
Listen: Life with classical music
Launched by ArkivMusic in 2009, Listen: Life with classical music (ISSN 1947-4431) is a lifestyle publication covering all the ways that people’s lives are touched by Western art music, including profiles of people, places, and events and recommendations of recordings, … Continue reading
Filed under Music magazines, New periodicals
JazzTimes
In 1970 Ira Sabin, a Washington, D.C., record store owner, started a newsletter called Radio free jazz to update customers on new jazz releases and provide a liaison between local radio programmers and the music industry. Over the following decade … Continue reading
Filed under Black studies, Jazz and blues, Music magazines
English dance & song
Published by the English Folk Dance and Song Society, English dance & song has appeared at least four times a year since it was launched in 1936. The magazine presents festival listings and other news, interviews with current English traditional … Continue reading
Filed under Dance, Europe, Music magazines, World music
Musicworks
Thanks to funding from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Magazine Fund, the SOCAN Foundation Publications Assistance Program, and the Canada Periodical Fund, Musicworks has been issuing articles, reviews, and scores focusing on Canadian … Continue reading
Filed under 20th- and 21st-century music, Music magazines, RILM news
Signal to noise
Established in 1997, Signal to noise is a quarterly magazine devoted to improvised and experimental music, focusing on “the confluence of avant-garde jazz, electro-acoustic improvisation, and left-of-center modern rock, with an emphasis on independent production and promotion.” Recent issues have … Continue reading
Blues magazines
Blues magazines like Living blues, Real blues, and Blues revue attest to the continuing vitality of a genre that dates at least back to the 1910s, when the first blues songs were published. Unlike the recording companies that capitalized … Continue reading
Filed under Black studies, Ethnomusicology, Jazz and blues, Mass media, Music magazines
Etnoumlje: Srpski world music magazine
Etnoumlje: Srpski world music magazine (ISSN 1452-9920) has been published quarterly by the World Music Asocijacija Srbije since the summer of 2007. The magazine provides insight into the Serbian world music scene through interviews and profiles of members of Serbian … Continue reading
Filed under Europe, Music magazines, Popular music, World music
Sruti
Sruti: India’s premier magazine for the performing arts (ISSN 0970-7816) is a Chennai-based magazine. While its primary focus is the South Indian Karnatak music world and its related dance traditions, most issues include at least one article devoted to the … Continue reading
Filed under Music magazines, Dramatic arts, Asia, Dance, Reception, World music
World music magazines
World music magazines such as fROOTS, Etnoumlje, and Sing out! are largely devoted to profiles of current performers and groups whose repertoires fall within the fuzzy boundaries of world music, a nebulous marketing concept that covers almost any ethnic tradition, … Continue reading
Filed under Mass media, Music magazines, Popular music, Reception, World music
