about
Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology is the graduate student publication of the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology. Edited and managed by graduate students in the department, the journal receives its funding from the Publications arm of the UCLA Graduate Student Association. Published electronically and accessible free of charge to any online reader, Pacific Review is dedicated to scholarly works by fellow graduate students and emerging scholars from throughout the world. As part of our commitment to emerging scholars, we also regularly publish articles recognized with the Society for Ethnomusicology Southern California Chapter’s Ki Mantle Hood prize.
We welcome submissions not only from colleagues in ethnomusicology and systematic musicology, but also from those in cognate disciplines such as musicology, anthropology, dance ethnology, cultural studies, folklore, sociology, law, and area studies. Contributions must be intellectually rigorous and address in some measure the social and cultural implications of musical practice.
HISTORY OF PACIFIC REVIEW OF ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
First published in 1984, Pacific Review has provided graduate students in ethnomusicology and related disciplines an opportunity to publish articles related to their research as well as contribute to debates on current issues in the field. Over the years, contributors to Pacific Review have addressed topics as varied as music and ecstasy, feminism in ethnomusicology, and pedagogical approaches to world musics.
Under the joint faculty supervision of Department Chair and Professor Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje and Professor Ali Jihad Racy, Pacific Review now enters an exciting new phase in its productive 21-year trajectory. Volume 11 marks the debut of our first electronic issue and the reinstatement of our traditional biannual publication cycle.
ORGANIZATION OF PACIFIC REVIEW
Pacific Review is governed by an Editorial Board and an Advisory Board. The Editorial Board consists of UCLA ethnomusicology graduate students, supervised by one or two Editors in their third year of graduate study or above, who exercise editorial control and assume final responsibility for all editorial decisions. Membership on the Editorial Board is open to graduate students who respond to solicitations by the current Board in a timely fashion and can commit to the operation of the journal for at least one academic year.
The Advisory Board consists of 17 senior scholars in ethnomusicology and cognate disciplines. Advisory Board members have a vested interest in the journal, avail themselves to occasional queries and requests by the Editorial Board, and serve as submission referees on a rotating basis.
Articles are well-developed essays approximately 4000-6000 words in length, based on substantive ethnographic research. As the primary feature of Pacific Review and most academic journals in general, each issue will typically include three to five articles.
Reviews consist of 1000-3000 word assessments of recently released books, audiovisual recordings, websites, theses and dissertations relevant to the field of ethnomusicology. Reviews of current publications will be solicited by the Editorial Board.
Sounding Board is a forum for intellectual debate initiated by an Advisory Board member, comprised of one or two thought essays per issue. These essays may touch on any relevant issue in the field, and range in length from 500-2000 words.
All articles submitted to Pacific Review will be sent to one or more anonymous referees for commentary and criticism. Though the editors rely on the referees to provide expert commentary, the editors make all decisions pertaining to the publication.
Subject Matter
Pacific Review is especially dedicated to publishing the scholarly writing of fellow graduate students. Submissions are welcome not only from graduate students in ethnomusicology and systematic musicology, but also from those in allied disciplines such as musicology, anthropology, dance ethnology, folklore, sociology, law, and area studies. Pacific Review also welcomes the submission of articles from our more senior colleagues on the faculties of educational institutions and those who have gone on to other professional objectives, especially if the submissions bear on graduate student concerns.
Contributions must be intellectually rigorous, and pertinent to the field of ethnomusicology. They need not, however, advance and defend a hypothesis. Readers are invited to submit articles that pose questions, comment on personal experiences, initiate debate on topics of ethnomusicological concern, or suggest areas for future research.
What to Submit
Submissions should be:
* Sent electronically as Word documents
* Double-spaced on 8 1/2 x 11 letter page size
* Articles: not more than 30 pages in length
* Reviews: not more than 10 pages in length and about a recently published item
* In stylistic compliance with previous issues of PRE
and accompanied by:
* Digital artwork in JPG/TIFF/GIF formats
* Digital files of clearly written musical transcriptions, or preferably
* Finale format transcriptions
* Articles: a brief (one paragraph) abstract
* Articles: a brief (one paragraph) biographical sketch of the author
* Musical examples on MP3 format (no longer than 10 minutes long)
* A Copyright Release Form (must accompany all supplementary materials)
Authors must include any instructions pertaining to:
* Placement of images and audio examples
* Special characters or fonts required
Bibliographies should use the Author-Date style of citation recommended for the social sciences as outlined in the Chicago Manual of Style 15th ed. rev.
Please note that all items become © The Regents of the University of California upon publication in Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology.
Review Process for Submissions
Submissions will be reviewed by 2-3 referees, one of whom can speak to the author’s topic and another who can provide an “outside” perspective. Referees will consist of, at minimum, one Advisory Board and one advanced ethnomusicology graduate student (M.A. and above).
The Editorial Board will notify authors about the status of their submission via email within 60 days after its reception. If the submission has been accepted for publication, we will send preliminary comments along with the email notification. In the interest of time, we ask that authors return their edited text, audio and video examples, and digital images electronically within 30 days of notification of acceptance. The Editorial Board will email authors a link to the final Web version of their submission within two weeks of its reception.
Download forms:
copyright release form (.pdf)
copyright policy (.pdf)
submission guidelines (.pdf)
Editor-in-chief
Jesse Ruskin
Editorial Board
Chloe Coventry
Beto González
Jesse Ruskin
Lauryn Salazar
Advisors
Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje
Ali Jihad Racy
Advisory Board
J. Martin Daughtry
Kevin Delgado
Heidi Feldman
Steven Friedson
Travis Jackson
Tamara Levitz
Peter Manuel
Anthony McCann
Ana Maria Ochoa-Gautier
Timothy Rice
Jonathan Ritter
Angeles Sancho-Velásquez
Anthony Seeger
Charles Sharp
Timothy Taylor
Robert Walser
Christopher Waterman
Webmaster
Beto González
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Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology
2539 Schoenberg Music Building
Box 951657
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1657
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