Journal: Sonus (since 1980)
Editor in Chief: Pozzi Escot
"The best music journal published in the USA."
Sonus aims to respond to the unique challenges of musical life characteristic of the last quarter of the 20th Century. Primarily, those are the challenges of music stretched out to global extremities. As is stated in one of its initial articles, music is now global in two interrelated senses:
- "in terms of all the diverse formulations music has assumed in various cultures and epochs;
- and in terms of the sum total of audible phenomena -- the manifold resources of music that have become available through scientific analysis of sound and through the reproductive, analytical, and synthesizing capabilities of electronic technology."
While there exist individual journals devoted to specific fragments of global music (early music, new music, world music, musical technology) or to its separate disciplines (composition, history, pedagogy, performance, theory), there exists no forum whose mission is to deal with the sum of those fragments as a whole: that whole, unprecedented and global, that may be the overriding fact of our musical existence.
We will strive to provide a forum for all of the manifold facets of global music; to open our space to the expression of its diverse facets and disciplines; to bring about consideration of the connections between its facets and disciplines, and these as they relate to other connected fields, such as anthropology, linguistics, mathematics, philosophy, physics, politics, psychology, as well as to the other arts.
We invite all those interested to join us as authors or as readers in realizing the potential that whole epochs and realms of human sensitivity and ingenuity have placed within our reach.