About Discourses in Music

This is the second edition of Discourses in Music, and the first to be on-line as a web-journal.  We believe it is important to let you know what our purpose is, and to invite you to contribute.  Let me outline them:

1)       Discourses in Music was created to fulfill a perceived need in the graduate student academic community.   We believe that dialogue is vital to the development of this community, in order to keep up to date, to challenge old ideas, and to suggest new ones.  Ultimately, we would like to foster a community of graduate students who talk about issues, to write to us to let us know what we are doing right and wrong, and to respond to the articles we publish; this is, after all, our central purpose in publishing this journal: we want to create a nation-wide dialogue that will stimulate and foster discourse throughout the musicological community.

2)       As of this issue, Discourses in Music is now an online journal, hosted by the University of Toronto Music Graduate Students, at:
http://mgsa.sa.utoronto.ca/discourses.html
(Editorial update: Discourses in Music has since moved to: )

3)       Please write to our email address - editor@library.music.utoronto.ca/discourses-in-music/index.html, where we encourage you to send us news items, updates, article abstracts opinion and response to what you have read in our pages. We need your contributions, as the content and quality of the journal is dictated by those who read and comment on our/your work.

4)       We need to have your opinion about the journal, but in order to have this, we need you to read the journal.  It is free and offered three times a year, but our mailing list is always seeking to expand.  With that in mind, please let us know if you do not receive the journal but would like to, or anyone you know who should receive this journal. Our target audience includes graduate students, post-graduate students, professors, undergraduate students, librarians, and other interested people.

It is increasingly difficult to get our work published, given the increased number of students studying music at the graduate level; we want to encourage you to get your first (or subsequent) articles to us.  Discourses in Music is aimed at graduate students, but we accept articles from professors and undergraduate students as well.  Please send your work to us online.

Editorial Staff:
Sandy Thorburn
Janette Tilley
David Ogborn
Jessica Lovett
Lowell Lybarger
Marina Lupishko

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