Editorial

With this, our final issue, we would like to thank all our authors, our Reviews Editor
Rowan Pease, our anonymous but hard-working reviewers whose contributions are
so vital in the peer review process, as well as the most helpful team at Routledge who
have worked to make this journal a success over the last three years. It is our
impression that over the course of our editorship both the numbers and the standard
of submissions have continued to rise, permitting us to establish a distinctive and
truly international profile. It has been a great pleasure to work in partnership with so
many committed contributors in the production of this journal.
In this issue, Simon Zagorski-Thomas contributes to the Forum section, which we
introduced in 2006. He provides a new look at Charles Keils work on groove, relating
his ideas on participatory discrepancies to contemporary work on expressive
microtiming and performance practice. We would like to encourage further contribu-
tions to the Forum section of the journal as a way of stimulating debate, sharing views
and alerting readers to newtrends, tools and techniques in the field. Zagorski-Thomass
comments on rhythmic entrainment and trance find resonance in Richard Jankowskys
article, which proposes a radical empirical approach to the study of music in spirit
possession, focusing on stambeli , a ritual healing music developed by displaced sub-
Saharans in Tunisia. Continuing the theme of music and healing, Tore Lind draws on
the ethnomusicological literature to explore the phenomenon of MusiCure, a sound
and music environment developed to facilitate healing in Denmark hospitals. Abigail
Wood uses one album, a hip hop-klezmer fusion, to probe concepts of community and
authenticity in contemporary Yiddish culture. John Napier takes a more musicological
approach, using detailed transcriptions to illustrate his arguments concerning the
relationship between soloist and accompanist in North Indian vocal music, focusing in
particular on contestations of authority in performance. With a contrasting approach
to a very different kind of relationship, Kathleen van Buren provides an ethnographi-
cally rich account of the sponsorship of pop musicians by government organizations
and international NGOs in Nairobi, Kenya. We are sorry that no reviews appear in this
issue due to pressure on space driven in part by the RAE. Reviews will appear as normal
in the next issue.
We take this opportunity to welcome the incoming editors Andrew Killick and
Laudan Nooshin who will take over the journal from autumn 2007. The first issue to
appear under their editorship will be a special issue on musical instruments and
gender, guest edited by Veronica Doubleday.
Rachel Harris and Tina K. Ramnarine
ISSN 1741-1912 (print)/ISSN 1741-1920 (online)/07/020183-01
# 2007 Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/17411910701553999
Ethnomusicology Forum
Vol. 16, No. 2, November 2007, p. 183
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