Fundamental Laws and Pedagogic Precepts: A Journal of Singing Retrospective

Abstract: In his second editorial as editor in chief, Matthew Hoch provides a brief history of the Journal of Singing and its precursors. Hoch recounts the publication’s evolution from a four-page newsletter in 1944 to the peer-reviewed scholarly journal of today’s digital age. He provides a chronology of editorial leadership and navigates the structural shifts of the early 2000s that led to the journal’s current editorial structure and naming of Richard Sjoerdsma as the Journal of Singing ’s first editor in chief. Hoch concludes with the acknowledgment that NATS’s publication will continue to evolve and change as our world and profession do the same.