The Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies (JIMS) is an international peer-reviewed journal. Published twice per year, it aims to establish a broad interdisciplinary platform for music researchers. JIMS especially promotes collaborations between sciences and humanities and between theory and practice, and provocative submissions that stimulate interdisciplinary discussion.

 

The journal aims

            · to contribute towards an understanding of music in all its manifestations, definitions and contexts

            · to promote interdisciplinary synergy among humanities, sciences and practically oriented disciplines  

            · to promote academic quality and the application of research findings

 

The journal is indexed by:

Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM)

Direct Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

INTUTE: Arts and Humanities

ZDB OPAC (Zeitschriftendatenbank)

HeBIS-Verbundkatalog

 

Disciplines

 

The journal accepts original submissions asso­ciated with

            · all subdisciplines or paradigms of musicology, including analytical, applied, comparative, cultural, empirical, ethnological, historical, popular, scientific, systematic and theoretical, and

            · all musically relevant disciplines, including acoustics, aesthetics, anthropology, archeology, art history and theory, biology, cognitive sciences, composition, computing, cultural studies, economics, education, engineering, ethnology, gender studies, history, linguistics, literary studies, mathematics, medicine, music theory and analysis, neurosciences, perception, performance, philosophy, physiology, popular music, prehistory, psychoacoustics, psychology, religious studies, semiotics, sociology, sport, statistics and therapy.