The International Magazine for Music New Sound is a peer reviewed journal.
It was founded in 1993 by the Union of Yugoslav Composers' Organizations and at the proposal of a small group of professional enthusiasts. In 1997 its publishing was transferred to Music Information Center of the Union of Yugoslav Composers' Organizations. In 2008 new publisher of the magazine became the Department for Musicology of the Faculty of Music in Belgrade.
The main goal of our magazine is to promote and present music of Serbia and theoretical concepts about music – musicological, ethnomusicological, analytical, philosophical, aesthetic, theory of media, cultural studies...
As a specific continuation of (old) ex-Yugoslav magazine – Sound – New Sound surpasses its predecessor by new and decisively international scope. So, while presenting domestic contemporary and traditional music worldwide, New Sound also deals with provocative issues on music and scientific problems concerning music in other countries as well.
Thus, our primary goal was achieved, bearing in mind the following words of our Editor-in-Chief Mirjana Veselinović-Hofman, Ph.D, professor at the Department for Musicology at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, written back in 1993:
...In the profound conviction that music and the professional ethics of the musician (like those of the artist, scientist, aesthetician, philosopher...) fundamentally bind us together all over the world, enabling us all to overcome even the greatest of life's vicissitudes, I shall endeavour for New Sound to grow into one of those musicological arenas that are characterized by the necessary exchange of information on an international level, about the experiences and manifold aspects of reflexion on complex musicological problems.
General information
The magazine is published semestrally, each issue in two separate editions – Serbian and English, with accompanying audio CD.
Permanent sections of the International Magazine for Music New Sound are: The Composer Speaks, New Sound's Thematic Series, Studies, Interpretations, New Works, Analyses, Research and Tradition, Students' Papers, Festivals and Symposia, Reviews. The magazine has an open and flexible approach to demands of modern science.
The New Sound website was launched in 2004.
