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Entre un contexto que expande y una ideología que desfinancia

Miguel A. García — 2025-04-14

Between a Context that Expands and an Ideology that Defunds

Miguel A. García — 2025-04-14

It's Not the End, but Something Feels off

Samuel Araujo — 2025-04-14

Rethinking the Press Discourse from a Musicological Perspective

Alicia Pajón Fernández — 2025-04-14

This article proposes a critical approach to the press discourse on music. It aims to unpack the mechanisms that generate press discourses through three main axes: a) the conception of the press as an archive; b) the notion of the press as an element of mediation; and c) the postulates of critical discourse studies. The aim is to examine how these elements act together and interact within logics of power that have to do with dominant structures, assuming that only by understanding them in their complexity is it possible to comprehend the discourses of the press and that a critical view allows for an alternative vision to those often proposed by the historical narratives of musicology.

Presence of Inclusion in Musical Education: Bibliometric Study

Vicenta Gisbert Caudeli — 2025-04-14

The term inclusion, both in the social and educational spheres, refers to providing opportunities for individual development and social participation to people with diverse abilities, avoiding their exclusion. The high integrative value of music leads us to dedicate this bibliometric study with an objective that consists of analyzing the particularities of the research that links Musical Education and inclusion. Specialized authors and scientific journals with greater interest in the subject are presented. A search is carried out in the Web of Science database using exclusively the terms musical education and inclusion. 300 articles are obtained, 59 published in 2023; The journals with the greatest thematic interest are International Journal of Music Education, Music Educators Journal and Research Studies in Music Education. Spain occupies second place in published articles, with 54 publications, only surpassed by the United States (n=98). Limiting the search to 2020-2024, we reduced the corpus to 193 articles. We observe an increase in scientific production on this topic, it is considered a growing topic as we witness the increase in social and educational diversity.

Coffee Shop Ambience Music Videos. Suggestion and Emotional Self-care during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Sara Revilla Gútiez — 2025-04-14

This article addresses a cultural phenomenon, that of the coffee shop ambience music videos, which experienced a considerable boom during the health crisis caused by Covid-19. This is a material disseminated, mainly, through the YouTube platform, whose purpose is to promote states of maximum relaxation, concentration and creativity, through the stimulation of ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response). After carrying out a digital ethnography, the operating dynamics of the selected channels have been observed and the various creative strategies that serve the aforementioned objectives have been analyzed. Finally, the article addresses the analysis of this phenomenon in the light of various theoretical frameworks that help place it in a social context of neocapitalist, individualized and spectacularized consumption models.

Revisiting Women and the Electric Guitar: Why the Research Needs to be Updated and Expanded

Gabrielle Kielich — 2025-04-14

This article investigates the state of the research on women and the electric guitar and argues that there is a strong need for further research in this area. Existing scholarship primarily focuses on factors that inhibit women from playing the electric guitar, is mostly centered on offline/pre-Internet women and guitar relations and tends to link the electric guitar with masculinity and male sexuality and characterize it as a male-dominated practice. This means that the reasons why women do play the electric guitar are not given much attention, the Internet’s impact on women’s guitar practice is largely omitted, and other ways of approaching the relationship between gender and the electric guitar are given minimal consideration. I argue that all of these aspects are vital for better understanding women and the electric guitar, and for advancing the cause of gender equality in music and are therefore in urgent need of further research.