About this Journal
Music and Politics is an open access, peer-reviewed, academic journal first published in 2007.
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"Revolutionary Songs from Myanmar: Reconsidering Scholarly Perspectives on Protest Music" by Heather MacLachlan
Volume XVII, Issue 1 (Winter 2023)
Latest News Posts
Heather MacLachlan's Honorable Mention
Posted by The Editors on 2024-10-28
Heather MacLachlan's essay "Revolutionary Songs from Myanmar: Reconsidering Scholarly Perspectives on Protest Music" (Music & Politics, Volume 17, Issue 1, Winter 2023) has received an honorable mention for the Society of Ethnomusicology's inaugural Esther Clinton Prize for Popular Music.
Read MoreNathan Platte Wins Award for Music & Politics essay
Posted by Karen Fournier on 2023-12-16
The journal editors are pleased to announce that Nathan Platte (University of Iowa) has won the 2023 Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism in the field of concert music for the article "Mixed Motives: Society Symphonies and Propagandistic Duplicity in The Iron Curtain (1948)," which appeared in Music & Politics 16/2 (Summer 2022).
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Re-hearing the “Darmstadt School”: Or, Politics Beyond Pluralism
James Davis
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Women’s Volunteerism, State Propaganda, and Subsidies for New Music in the USA: Following the Money on CRI 145
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Performing National Gymnastics: The Appropriation of Japanese Radio Exercise and Militarism in Postcolonial South Korea
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Listening with Lefebvre: The Sound of the Everyday in Postwar Radio Art
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Musical Development: Classical Music and Gentrification in Louisville, KY
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“Play It Again, Yvonne: Lefébure and Radio Performance as an Embodied Technology of French Resistance, Hope, and Friendship During World War II”
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The History of Use of Recordings of Popular Music in Zambia’s Electoral Campaigns
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