Tthe world of music (new series) is an international peer-reviewed journal seeking a critical understanding of performing arts and cultural practices involving music, dance and theater worldwide, as well as the many contexts in which they come into being. The world of music (new series) is a continuation of the journal the world of music edited from 1988 to 2007 by Max Peter Baumann at the International Institute for Traditional Music (IITM), Berlin, since 1997 as Journal of the Department of Ethnomusicology at Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg (http://the-world-of-music-journal.blogspot.com.es/).

Oral Tradition is a forum for discussion of the world’s oral traditions and related forms from the ancient world to the present day. OT is freely available to all interested scholars, students, performers, and general readers without charge as an online, open-access resource. Here you will find both the current issue of the journal as well as all back issues from the inaugural publication in 1986 onward. In this electronic incarnation, OT reaches more than 20,000 readers per year in 216 countries and territories, and includes multimedia eCompanions to articles—audio, video, photographic, and other support for the article texts—that help to illuminate the traditions under investigation.