Intersections: Canadian Journal of Music, formerly Canadian University Music Review, is a digitally published bilingual (French and English) journal for refereed scholarly research in music.
Founded in 1980 by the Canadian University Music Society (MusCan), it is published semi-annually with open access. The journal aims to represent the diversity of current fields of research in music, most broadly defined, and welcomes submissions informed by all music-related disciplines, as well as multi- and interdisciplinary scholarship. Intersections serves an international community of readers and authors, and is dedicated especially to promoting and disseminating Canadian scholarship and Canadian perspectives within both the national and global contexts.
History
Founded in 1980 as the Canadian University Music Review / Revue de musique des universités canadiennes, the journal was retitled Intersections: Canadian Journal of Music / Intersections: Revue canadienne de musique in 2005 (beginning with vol. 26, no. 1). The journal remains the widest ranging Canadian forum for scholarly research into music, serving a broad array of scholars both nationally and internationally with its diverse research agenda. The journal has developed together with its sponsor organization, the Canadian University Music Society / la Société de musique des universités canadiennes (MusCan). MusCan was itself founded in 1965 as the Canadian Association of University Schools of Music (CAUSM) / Association canadienne des écoles universitaires de musique (ACEUM).
Nine volumes of a predecessor journal, the CAUSM/ACEUM Journal, were published between 1971 and 1979. The numbering was restarted at volume 1 when the journal assumed the new title Canadian University Music Review / Revue de musique des universités canadiennes in 1980; the next year the sponsoring society was itself renamed the Canadian University Music Society / la Société de musique des universités canadiennes.
Both the society and the journal were initially focused, in terms of research area, primarily on historical musicology more traditionally defined. In recent decades, however, the activities of the society (especially as seen at the annual MusCan conference) and the pages of the journal have encouraged an increasing diversity of research, and now also regularly feature scholarship in sub-disciplines such as ethnomusicology, film music, popular music studies, music theory, and more.