Theoretical Overview: The New Mesons

Abstract

After commenting on the state of contemporary hadronic physics and spectroscopy, I highlight four areas where the action is: searching for the relevant degrees of freedom, mesons with beauty and charm, chiral symmetry and the D_{sJ} levels, and X(3872) and the lost tribes of charmonium.

Comments: 10 pages, uses jpconf.cls; talk at First Meeting of the APS Topical Group on Hadronic Physics