African Music (journal)

{{Infobox journal

| title = African Music

| image = African_Music_(journal)_cover_image.jpg

| former_name =

| abbreviation = Afr. Music

| discipline = Ethnomusicology

| editors = Lee Watkins

| publisher = International Library of African Music

| country =

| history = 1954-current

| frequency = Annual

| openaccess = Delayed, two-years

| license =

| impact =

| impact-year =

| ISSN = 0065-4019

| eISSN = 2524-2741

| CODEN =

| JSTOR = 00654019

| LCCN = 60045755

| OCLC = 1036109

| website = http://journal.ru.ac.za/index.php/africanmusic/index

| link1 = http://journal.ru.ac.za/index.php/africanmusic/issue/current

| link1-name = Online access

| link2 = http://journal.ru.ac.za/index.php/africanmusic/issue/archive

| link2-name = Online archive

}}

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.{{cite news |last1=South African Cultural Observatory |title=ILAM offers open access to African Music Journal |url=https://www.southafricanculturalobservatory.org.za/article/ilam-offers-open-access-to-african-music-journal |accessdate=28 November 2018 |publisher=South African Cultural Observatory |date=28 March 2017}}

History

The journal was established by Hugh Tracey in 1954,{{cite web |last1=Open Music Library |title=Journals: African Music |url=https://openmusiclibrary.org/journal/african-music/ |website=Openmusiclibrary |publisher=Alexander Street |accessdate=28 November 2018}} in the same year as the International Library of African Music. Tracey was the first editor-in-chief until his death in 1977.{{cite journal |last1=Thram |first1=Diane |title=From the editor |journal=African Music: Journal of the International Library of African Music |date=2007 |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=4–5 |doi=10.21504/amj.v8i1.1708|doi-access=free }}{{cite web |title=History: Hugh Tracey founds the Int'l Library of African Music (ILAM) |url=https://www.kalimbamagic.com/info/history/22-hugh-tracey-founds-the-int-l-library-of-african-music-ilam |publisher=Kalimba Magic |accessdate=28 November 2018}} 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.{{cite web |title=About the journal |website=International Library of African Music |url=http://journal.ru.ac.za/index.php/africanmusic/about |publisher=Rhodes University |accessdate=19 July 2018}}

=Editors-in-chief=

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

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