The following announcement appeared on the Music Library Association listserv:
Search: Journal for New Music and Culture
http://www.searchnewmusic.org/
Publisher: Search
The guiding aims of Search are those of sharing perspectives and fostering
discourse concerning the creative arts, above all the art of music.
We believe that the creative arts can serve a special role in our culture,
realizing a combination of potentials not accessible to other media: they
can expand and deepen both experiential capacities and intersubjective
understanding. They can offer paradigms of intellectual and performative
accomplishment, critically reflect upon the given, and speculate upon the
possible.
We believe that original new developments in the creative arts can offer
something of great value to our culture. However, the insight they offer
is neither instantaneous nor self-evident. A lively, informed discourse
concerning these developments is lacking and must be fostered. An
important component of this is bridging the gap between expert, specialist
audiences and a broader, non-specialist audience committed to the central
role of art in our culture.
Search will focus firstly upon sharing information about significant new
developments in music and the other arts. Our goal is to reduce the
distance – at least “virtually”- between physically, aesthetically, and
often ideologically disparate artistic cultures. To this end, the editors
welcome a broad range of articles treating the output of original and
accomplished composers, improvisers, and performers.
Technical analyses will always be welcome, but we especially encourage
articles that ground analyses in the aesthetic aims and worldview of the
artist. We also welcome input from performers regarding new developments
in performative resources for their instruments.
Furthermore, Search will exist as a forum for critical and speculative
assessments not only of the work of individual artists and artistic
movements, but also of the state of the art form and its possible roles
and responsibilities in society.
Email: searchjournal@gmail.com
Note:
Although the website states “Search will be published online three times
per year. Isolated articles and abstracts will be offered to the general
public but the full range of articles, as well as access to and
participation in online discussions will only be available to members,” so
far there is no membership mechanism on the site and all articles are
freely accessible in PDF format.
Current Issue: Issue 1 Winter 2008
Date: 27 June 2008
