Available Now: "Music and (Linguistic) Meaning"

Rejecting the idea that music is a language, Andy Hamilton argues that music and language are inter-penetrating concepts, with neither language nor music subordinate to the other.

Available now at musicresearchannual.org/hamilton-mus...

Volume 5–6 of Music Research Annual is now complete! In addition to two substantial review essays of music handbooks—the journal's newest feature—this volume also features the longest article ever published by Music Research Annual!

Read now at www.musicresesearchannual.org

Now Available: "Popular Music and the Digital Shift: History, Economics, Listening, Organology, and Aesthetics."

Philippe Le Guern and Paul J.F. Fleury examine the history of the shift towards digital technologies in music and its impact on how we understand, consume, and create music.

Available Now: Review of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Policy.

Brian Fauteux highlights the importance of policymaking and the potential avenues for new research opened in this recent handbook, edited by Shane Homan.

Available now at musicresearchannual.org/fauteux-bloo...

Available Now: Review of the Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness!

In this substantial review essay, Xavier Livermon explores the content and research avenues explored in the recent Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness.

Available now at musicresearchannual.org/livermon-oxf...

Now Available! “Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Music Entrepreneurship.”

The advent of the digital age has transformed both the music industry and the way musicians approach their careers. In this article, Marc Perrenoud explores the modern concept of the musician as entrepreneur.

Now Available! “Metamorphosis of Media in the Life of Audio Documents: Preservation, Restoration, and Critical Editing of Twentieth-Century Western Art Music”

In this essay, Cossettini and Orcalli discuss the preservation of electronic music written for increasingly obsolete technology.

Music Research Annual is pleased to announce the publication of our newest article,
"Streaming Music: Will Digital Rights Management Have a Place in a Blockchained World?" by Patrick Burkart. You can read the full article now at musicresearchannual.org/burkart-stre...

Music Research Annual is pleased to announce the publication of our newest article, "Transnational Sharedness: Social Dynamics of Circulation and Appropriation in "Global" Music Genres" by Alice Aterianus-Owanga. You can read the full article now at musicresearchannual.org/latest-artic...

Music Research Annual is pleased to announce the publication of our newest article, "From Studies of Protest Music to Protest Music Studies: Mapping a Field That Doesn't (Yet) Exist" by Eric Drott. You can read the article now on our website, musicresearchannual.org/latest-artic...

Volume 4 of Music Research Annual is in the works, but why not peruse the MRA archives? Our first three volumes, featuring articles ranging from Musical theatre to Zoömusicology to the concept of Musicking are currently available online at musicresearchannual.org