The Rising Voices team works with contributors to highlight current student interests; develops useful, relevant resources to student and early-career scholars; and features work that reimagines the approaches, viewpoints, recognitions, and future of our field and the Society for Ethnomusicology. We provides a forum for students to communicate with their peers and to address the challenges and opportunities that we face together, framing current student investments, needs, and sociopolitical engagement in numerous areas of music and sound scholarship. Through a dialogic, multi-phase revision process, the editing team works closely with the authors to maximize students’ writing potential, give students a glimpse into a collaborative form of peer review, and prepare them for future academic and creative publishing. Rising Voices welcomes publications from individuals of diverse academic disciplines, native languages, stages in training, and geographic situatedness. We especially welcome works that are ‘in progress,’ conversation starters, or with expansive understandings of ethnomusicology and music studies.
Following scholar Ailsa Lipscombe, we understand the “voice” to “exist in and as embodied multiplicities.” Voices “unfold out loud–spoken by and amplified through both humans and machines–as well as through hands and protactile communication, and across pages and computer screens” (email to author, August 22, 2023). We are honored to curate a multiplicity of rising scholars' voices and support their development as writers and thinkers.
Rising Voices additionally offers a range of resources for graduate and undergraduate students, including Writing Groups, mentoring, and networking. Please see the Student Engagement section of our website for more information.
Finally, we invite you to listen to our team values:
