There’s a lot of music magazines around with a wide range of styles, objectives and audiences. But there is only one Syncopation Journal: an online platform dedicated to texts about music. We’re not talking about the industry’s press releases or the pseudo-intellectual drivel in music journals. We’re talking about – no need to be afraid – contemporary literature.
The self-descirption reads:
“This is the journal for all writers inspired by music. While everything we publish relates to music, you do not have to be a musician to submit.”
The magazine publishes poetry, flash prose, short stories and creative nonfiction as well as art.
The Guitar Issue
Volume 3, Issue 1 is about guitars and other plucked instruments and has just been published. Founding editor Natalie Welsh has selected a contribution from Gerald Jatzek, a short piece about the relationship between the instruments of the Balkans, which shows how strongly music connects the supposedly strictly separated ethnic groups.
The first lines read:
“The Greek bouzouki and the baglamas are related to the Turkish bağlama family of instruments, which in turn goes back to the Persian dutar. The same applies to the Albanian çifteli. The Albanian and Kosovarian sharkia is a close relative of the šargija (…)
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