Editors’ Introduction

Abstract

As we enter the fifth year in the existence of the Journal of World Popular Music, we are delighted to open our editorial introduction with a number of announcements. In 2013, we were conceiving of a journal with a specific focus on global pop to capture a new and distinctive niche in the market and address newer ethnomusicological research areas. The Journal of World Popular Music is in very good health and has developed rapidly into a sought-after site for scholarly discussion. During the four years of its existence, the journal became indexed in RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, The Music Index, Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)/Thomson Reuters, SCOPUS and ERIH PLUS, which is testa..