[ecrea] Journal of World Popular Music - FIRST ISSUE PUBLISHED

PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT



JOURNAL OF WORLD POPULAR MUSIC, VOLUME 1 ISSUE 1



Dear interested readers,



This issue marks the debut of the Journal of World Popular Music, and as 
editors we are honoured to be associated with a journal that constitutes 
a unique contribution to the academic study of international popular 
musics. Spanning disciplines of popular music, ethnomusicology, 
anthropology, musicology, communication, media and cultural studies, 
sociology, geography and other fields, this new peer-reviewed journal 
will publish high-quality articles on world popular music, the 
local/global music industries, the participants in world popular music, 
mediated representations of world popular music and more. This inaugural 
issue has taken nearly two years in the making and reflects the 
expansion of academic interest in the subject. With our active 
involvement in popular music and/or ethnomusicology, we felt that a 
dedicated journal would be the ideal vehicle to build on the growth of 
research that amalgamates the two disciplines, among others, as well as 
to capture the diverse scholarly interests of an ever more vibrant 
popular music community. A concept was developed and presented to 
potential publishers, notably Equinox, who shared our passion for fresh 
and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of all popular music the 
world over.



Table of Contents



Editorial



Editors’ Introduction to Inaugural Issue

Simone Krüger , Sarah Baker



Popular Music in Australia and The Pacific



Agent of Bicultural Balance: Ganma, Yothu Yindi and the Legacy of 
Mandawuy Yunupi?u

Aaron Corn



Book Review: Henry “Seaman” Dan and Karl Neuenfeldt. 2013. Steady 
Steady: The Life and Music of Seaman Dan. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies 
Press. 170pp. ISBN 978-1-9220-59208 (pbk).

Åse Ottosson



Selling Lokal Music: A Comparison of the Content and Promotion of Two 
Locally Recorded and Released Albums in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

Oli Wilson



Popular Music in Europe



Diversity and Synergy in the Recording Industry in Portugal, 1988-2008

Pedro Nunes



Event Review: Eurovision Song Contest 2013. Malmö, Sweden.

Paul Jordan



Website Review: Paul Royal and Double Bass. Europopmusic. The Online 
Magazine and Encyclopedia about European Pop and Rock Music. 
www.europopmusic.eu.

Emília Barna



African Popular Music



Film Review: Under African Skies. 2012. Directed by Joe Berlinger. Sony 
Legacy. Blu-ray and DVD.

Brian F. Wright



Book Review: Jesse Weaver Shipley.2013. Living the Hiplife: Celebrity 
and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music. Durham and London: Duke 
University Press. 344 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-5366-9 (pbk)

Greg Dimitriadis



Book Review: Steven Feld. 2012. Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra: Five 
Musical Years in Ghana. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 328 
pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-5162-7 (pbk)

Tony Mitchell



Book Review: Eric Charry, ed. 2012. Hip Hop Africa: New African Music in 
a Globalizing World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 404 pp. ISBN 
978-0-2530-05755 (pbk).

Murray Forman



World Music



Book Review: Bob W. White, ed. 2012. Music and Globalization: Critical 
Encounters. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. 248 
pp. ISBN 978-0-253-22365-4 (pbk).

Bruce Johnson



Our Stories, From Us, The “They”: Nick Gold talks to Lucy Durán about 
the Making of Buena Vista Social Club

Lucy Durán



Book Review: Jo Haynes.2013. Music, Difference and the Residue of Race. 
New York and Abingdon: Routledge. 180 pp.ISBN 978-0-415-87921-7 (hbk)

Nabeel Zuberi



Should World Music Teachers Teach World Music?: Popular Music and the 
World Music Survey Course

Andrew Killick





For full details about this issue, see 
http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/JWPM/issue/current.



For subscriptions, see 
http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/JWPM/about/subscriptions.



If you are interested in submitting an article or review, please follow 
this link: 
http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/JWPM/about/submissions





Thank you for your interest in our journal!



Very best wishes,

Simone



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Dr Simone Krüger, Programme Leader in Popular Music Studies, John Lennon 
Art and Design Building, 2 Duckinfield Road, Liverpool L3 5RD, UK



tel: +44 (0)151 904 1128/1223; e: (s.kruger /at/ ljmu.ac.uk)



Editor Journal of World Popular Music



Out now: The Globalization of Musics in Transit: Music Migration and 
Tourism (Routledge 2013[2014])





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