Editorial

Meet the new editorial team

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5429/2079-3871(2026)v16i1.1en

Keywords:

IASPM, Editorial

Abstract

The first issue of IASPM Journal in 2026 is an open issue; it is also the first issue edited independently by a new editorial team of four: Ann Werner, Sudiipta Dowsett, Sangheon Lee and Nassos Polyzoidis. In this editorial we present ourselves, our plans and aims for the coming three years with IASPM Journal and provide an overview of the articles included in the first issue of 2026.

Author Biographies

Ann Werner, IASPM Norden, Uppsala University

Ann Werner’s research interests are in gender, power, music and media, she has published widely on for example streaming and algorithmic culture, and gendered uses of music, drawing on feminist theory. Her articles include ‘Organizing music, organizing gender: Algorithmic culture and Spotify recommendations’, in Popular Communication (2020) and her latest book on popular music is Feminism and Gender Politics in Mediated Popular Music (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023). She is a professor in musicology at Uppsala University and an associate professor in Gender Studies at Södertörn Univeristy, Sweden. Her recent work in Nation and Gender in Higher Classical Music Education (Routledge 2026) has examined the construction of nation and gender in European classical music higher education, further she has lead project investigating sexual harassment and preventive measures after #metoo in the Swedish performing arts and work environment issues in artistic professions.

Sudiipta Dowsett, University of Cologne

Sudiipta Dowsett is a Research Fellow in Ethnomusicology at the Institute for Musicology, University of Cologne, Germany. She is Assistant Editor of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) Journal. Her research explores the decolonial capacities of Hip Hop as embodied practice in South Africa and Australia, highlighting its critical role in maintaining and revitalising Indigenous Ancestral modes of vocality and being. With a strong commitment to collaborative, decolonial and co-designed methods her work seeks to build resources and capacity for community-led futures. Publications include co-editing Representing Hip Hop Histories, Politics and Practices in Australia (Routledge, 2024) and collaborative music projects including K'ltsha Kulture (2024), an album with various artists from Khayelitsha, South Africa, and Imbokodo Rise a double single release (2025).

Sangheon Lee, University of Huddersfield

Dr Sangheon Lee is a South Korean musicologist, guitarist, and Senior Research Fellow (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions) at the University of Huddersfield (UK). His work is grounded in a multilingual and cross-cultural intellectual background. He received his PhD in 2022 from Université Gustave Eiffel (France) with a dissertation on the emergence of early American hardcore punk. His research centres on punk, post-punk, and related musical traditions across Anglo-American, Russian, and Central-Eastern European contexts, with particular attention to musical form, temporality, urgency, and nihilism. Before his doctorate, he studied French literature (BA) and completed an MA on Richard Wagner’s reception among nineteenth-century French critics. Dr Lee currently serves as Membership Secretary of IASPM International, Assistant Editor of the IASPM Journal, and a member of the editorial board of Punk & Post-Punk.

Nassos Polyzoidis, University of Ioannina

Nassos Polyzoidis (Adjunct Professor, University of Ioannina, Greece) is an assistant editor of IASPM Journal, supporting the journal’s technical processes, platform management, and publication workflows. He teaches in the areas of popular and jazz music studies. His research focuses on the intersections of blues, rebetiko, and jazz, with particular emphasis on cross-cultural musical forms, harmony, rhythm, and performance practices. His work combines analytical approaches to structure and harmony with performance-based perspectives, and engages with questions of genre, identity, and intercultural exchange, including aspects of language and lyrical practice. He is an active member of the IASPM UK & Ireland, and his current work spans both scholarly research and songwriting, drawing on and recombining elements from these traditions.

References

Adorno, T. 2014. Musikalische Schriften I-III: Klangfiguren, Quasi una fantasia, Musikalische Schriften III. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.

Ahmed, S. 2012. On Being Included. Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life. Durham: Duke University Press.

Puwar, N. 2004. Space Invaders: Race, Gender and Bodies Out of Place. Oxford: Berg.

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Published

15-05-2026

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Vol. 16 No. 1 (2026): Open Issue

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Editorial

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