Music Etnografie Sonore/Sound Ethnographies is a peer-reviewed, annual, multimodal open-access journal published both online and in print (ISSN 2612-3991, ISBN 978-88-9374-079-1), featuring contributions in Italian and English. Founded in 2018 at the initiative of the University of Bologna, the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, and the University of Palermo, the journal emerges from the research traditions of Italian ethnomusicology and positions itself as an international forum for innovative and critical perspectives on music, sound, and performance. All contributions are freely available on the journal’s website, which is hosted by the Museo Internazionale delle Marionette Antonio Pasqualino in Palermo, while the printed edition is produced by Neoclassica (Rome).

The journal’s multimodal format allows scholarly articles to integrate audiovisual materials – such as audio recordings and video excerpts – directly within the online platform. In addition to research articles, Etnografie Sonore/Sound Ethnographies welcomes audiovisual essays as well as shorter contributions (Arguments and Institutions), which differ in scope and format from full-length articles and are intended to foster dialogue on ongoing research, methodological issues, institutional projects, and documentation practices. The journal also welcomes reviews of academic volumes and recordings of ethnomusicological interest.

Past issues of the journal are securely archived and preserved on Zenodo.

Under the patronage of:

Dipartimento delle Arti – Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna

Dipartimento Culture e Società – Università di Palermo

Under the auspices of:

Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”