A special notice from Stephen Baysted (Editor in Chief), Elizabeth Medina-Gray (Associate Editor, North America), and Tim Summers (Associate Editor, Europe):
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. Though JSMG primarily focuses on video games, the journal welcomes studies of music and/or sound in any form of game (for example, sports, historical games predating video games, and so on).
JSMG publishes original research articles, supplemented by a range of other content including review articles surveying important subjects, reviews of pertinent books and games, communications with responses, and interviews. The journal will also occasionally present topically themed special issues and conference proceedings.
For more information, and submission instructions, please visit https://sssmg.org/wp/jsmg/ or e-mail the editors at jsmg@sssmg.org
Submissions may be sent at any time; for the greatest likelihood that an accepted article will be published in the first issue, please submit by April 1.