Introduction

Since 1998, Department of Music at Faculty of Human Ecology has successfully organised 6 colloquia in music research. In 2010, this academic event was renamed as UPM International Colloquium for Music Research and recurred annually until 2014. In all 11 colloquia, local and international academicians gathered at the Faculty of Human Ecology, Universiti Putra Malaysia and dedicated their papers and audiovisual works which were presented and discussed as research outcomes of broad topics in music and also music-related fields. To date, apart from Malaysian scholars, international scholars have been invited from regions such as Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Laos, Sri Lanka, India, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Iran, Germany, Italy, Ethiopia, Argentina and the United States. 

From 2008 till 2014, the colloquia tie to subsequent publication projects and have positively enabled the publication of UPM Book Series on Music Research in 7 volumes that contain a selection of papers submitted for presentation at the colloquia. Since May 2013, this book series has been listed under periodicals with an ISSN number issued by the National Library of Malaysia. In order to better facilitate scientific aspirations, the book series utilizes a double-blind peer review and continues its chapter structure.

This year, the Department of Music once again invites local and international academicians to gather in Kuala Lumpur and dedicate their papers and audiovisual works which will be presented and discussed as research outcomes of broad topics in music and also music-related fields.