African Music (journal)

African Music is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal published by the International Library of African Music. It covers contextualized studies of African music and related arts. Articles are made freely accessible after a two-year embargo period.^[1]

African Music

Discipline	Ethnomusicology
Language	English
Edited by	Lee Watkins
Publication details
History	1954-current
Publisher	International Library of African Music
Frequency	Annual
Open access	Delayed, two-years
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Afr. Music
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0065-4019 (print) 2524-2741 (web)
LCCN	60045755
JSTOR	00654019
OCLC no.	1036109
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

History

The journal was established by Hugh Tracey in 1954,^[2] in the same year as the International Library of African Music. Tracey was the first editor-in-chief until his death in 1977.^[3][4] Publication was interrupted from 2000 until 2007. Since it was re-launched in 2007, the journal includes a collection of music performances and audio examples relating to articles published within the respective issues.^[5]

Editors-in-chief

The following persons are or have been editor-in-chief of the journal:

• 1954–1977: Hugh Tracey
• 1977–1999: Andrew Tracey
• 2007–2016: Diane Thram
• 2017–current: Lee Watkins

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:^[6]

• Academic Search Premier
• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
• Modern Language Association Database
• Music Index
• Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale