Potter, Keith

Villars, Chris

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  Contact :  A  Journa l  for  Contemporary  Mus ic  ( 1971 -1988)  http://contactjournal.gold.ac.uk Citation      Potter, Keith and Villars, Chris. 1971. ‘Editorial’. Contact, 1. pp. 1. ISSN 0308-5066.1 CONTACT No 1SPRIN·•··· .97 E .]) .. T T 0- R I A L The launching of yet another magazine devoted to an aspect of the - Arts in the Birmingham a r ea deserves t o be prefaced with some explanation , of its purpose and. f or whom it is intended, Briefly, then, the aims of this magazine, a s signified by its title are as follows :-1. .· To produce a journal devoted to the discussion of twentieth m'tl.sic of all kinds; ·• pop, jazz and .folk as well as "serious" music. 2. Thereby to make CONTACT b-etween those involved in the practice, study and enjoyment of the widely differing forms that con-temporary music takes. 3. To make COl\TTACT between the l a r ge number of organisations and :indiv.D.u91s interested in music in the Birmingha.rri area and t o make them aware of others working to the same ends (This, while hoping that most of the articles in the will . a lso have a .: wider appea;L) • _ . · c: · . . . . -:c· .r 4. . To bring to ov c'[;-y()pe I ::3-, attention; . the varied nature' of the pre sent.:.day mus.i,9al sc.eri e , all 'its · manifestations are tlie, music o:t; today, wi·i tten f or ' the p_eople · of today - an1 thu$ Ciur 'cittention. I 'vole hope to publish an of the magazine once every academic te;em (i.e. about every f our To do this 'we obviously need support .. wd this includes articles written, ;ty the r eO.ders of this first isstie· you ! . Anything on any aspect ,of twent'i e th century music will be considered. · .. . Contributions on the most r ecent dev:el'opments will be particuiq.rly welcome .. I In the present issue 'We .have attltlEi:s ,on pop, jazz. music. We apologise for the absence of anything on "folk"; nothing -was . .forthcoming from those we asked, a situation tha t can 'ohly be rectified iri. future . issues by ' thcise ·of our readers 'inte r ested ·in f o lk' music. . , , · . We 'wci'uld any {nf ortnation .C()mi.ng and events <' -!recently 'past; . 'als6, atiY suggestions for improve'ments to the cmd ,., "'letters to the ea1 tor" on views expressed in th:i,.s ' a;nd ; subsequent ' issues. We should point .o).l.t, of course, that the vim·1s in artic.l es and . • . . • _ .. io . • • · • 1 • ., ,- .r 1 } .' ' ' _! _I •'. •• - '-• · "· do not :riecessariiy those of the editors. ·-· ······ ·-··· - --- · ---KEITH POTTER CIDUS VILLARS All contributions to future issues should be sent to :-Keith Potter, cjo Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham Bl5 2TU. 

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