The Trustees of the Society for the Study of Sound and Music in Games, on behalf of the Society’s Executive Committee, are very pleased to announce the appointment of new editorial staff for the Journal of Sound and Music in Games (JSMG), effective 15 October 2024.
Editor-in-Chief
Dana Plank is an independent scholar and remote adjunct lecturer for The Ohio State University. Her work focuses on intersections of music and representations of identity, particularly video game sound and gender, sexuality, and disability. She is co-editor of The Intersection of Animation, Video Games, and Music: Making Movement Sing with Lisa Scoggin (April 2023, Routledge), and has a second project under contract with Routledge entitled Gender and Sexuality in Video Game Sound, co-edited with Karen Cook and Michael Austin. In addition to her scholarship, she is active as a freelance violinist, chamber musician, transcriptionist, arranger, and Twitch streamer, co-hosting a weekly stream on video-game music with Ryan Thompson, Julianne Grasso, and Karen Cook on Thursdays at 9 p.m. Eastern at twitch.tv/bardicknowledge, as well as a monthly stream Fridays at 2pm Eastern on her own channel at twitch.tv/musicologess entitled “Kudomusicology: A Ludomusicology Literature Review,” highlighting scholarship and featuring interviews with the authors in the field.
Associate Editors
William Ayers is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the University of Central Florida. His published work on video game music and sound has appeared in the Journal of Sound and Music in Games, Music and the Moving Image, and The Oxford Handbook of Video Game Music and Sound. His recent research applies ludomusicological concepts to music outside of video games, including concert music, film music, and theme park music.
Karen M. Cook is Associate Professor and Chair of Music History at the Hartt School, University of Hartford. She specializes in music of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and also in medievalism in contemporary music & media, especially video games. Her book Music Theory in Late Medieval Avignon: Magister Johannes Pipardi was published in 2021 as part of Routledge’s RMA Monographs Series, and she is currently co-editing two volumes: Gender, Sexuality, and Video Game Sound, with Dana Plank and Michael Austin for Routledge, and Global Histories of Video Game Music Technology, with William Gibbons and Fanny Rebillard for Brepols.
Stephanie Lind is an Associate Professor of Music Theory and Musicology at the Dan School of Drama and Music, Queen’s University. Her interests include the music of video games, contemporary Canadian music, and transformational theory. Research contributions include Authenticity in the Music of Video Games (released 2023), several book chapters on musical structure in video games, journal articles in Intersections, The Soundtrack, and Music Theory Online, and presentations at numerous conferences.
We also want to take this opportunity to express our sincere gratitude for the commitment, dedication, and visionary leadership of outgoing co-Editors-in-Chief Elizabeth Medina-Gray and Timothy Summers who have been part of the editorial staff of JSMG since its founding in 2017 and who have led the journal together since 2022.
The Journal of Sound and Music in Games (JSMG) is a peer-reviewed journal that presents high-quality research concerning all areas of music and/or sound in games. It serves a diverse community of readers and authors, encompassing industry practitioners alongside scholars from disciplinary perspectives including anthropology, computer science, media/game studies, philosophy, psychology and sociology, as well as musicology. JSMG is the only journal exclusively dedicated to this subject and provides a meeting point for professionals and academics from any tradition to advance knowledge of music and sound in this important medium. More information about JSMG is available online at https://online.ucpress.edu/jsmg/.
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