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    Doing Music Mediation. International Perspectives on a Multi-Faceted Practice
    Vol. 1 No. 1 (2024)

    Despite being a relatively new practice, music mediation has already garnered substantial research attention. However, most scholarly findings have primarily circulated within national contexts. Recent efforts to internationalize research on music mediation include the publication of the anthology “Tuning Up! The Innovative Potential of Musikvermittlung” (Chaker/Petri-Preis 2022) and the organization of two conferences: “Rencontres Internationales sur les Médiations de la Musique” (Université de Montréal, 2022) and “Turning Social! On the Social Transformative Potential of Music Mediation” (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, 2023). The establishment of the International Journal of Music Mediation (IJMM) aims to build upon these initial steps towards internationalization and to further advance this trajectory. The aim of the first issue is to develop a common understanding of music mediation.

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    Music Mediation and the Socio-Ecological Transition
    Vol. 2 No. 1 (2025)

    How do participatory and socially engaged musical practices – supported by music mediation – contribute through their “intervention strategies” (Fourcade 2014) to reflection on territorial transformation? Can they act as accelerators of socio-ecological transition? Put differently: what happens when music mediation fosters engagement with socio-environmental concerns? For this second issue of IJMM, and drawing on the concept of “transition” introduced by Rob Hopkins in 2008, we ask whether and how music mediation can play “a catalytic role in enabling communities to explore and imagine their own responses” (Hopkins 2014, 134) to environmental challenges.