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Music and Politics is an open access, peer-reviewed, academic journal first published in 2007.

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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.

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Nathan 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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Volume 18 • Spring 2024

Articles


Pamamonya Ipapo”: Is Soul Also Among the Prophets?—Trivialization or Redefinition of Heroism in Zimbabwe?

Benjamin Mudzanire and Mickson Mazuruse

2024-05-06 Volume 18 • Spring 2024

Putting Class Back into Classical Music Studies

John R. Pippen

2024-05-06 Volume 18 • Spring 2024

The Krabat Motif in the Songs and Musicals of Liedermacher Gerhard Gundermann

David Robb

2024-05-06 Volume 18 • Spring 2024

Reflections on the Challenges of Musical Representations of Korean Historical Texts in Cord Meijering’s Marsyas for Percussion Solo Symphony (2018/19)

Mingyeong Son

2024-05-06 Volume 18 • Spring 2024

DIY under Authoritarian Politics: Indie Music Scene in Istanbul

Yaprak Melike Uyar

2024-05-06 Volume 18 • Spring 2024

Back Matter


Recent Books on Music and Politics

Dorian Mueller

2024-05-06 Volume 18 • Spring 2024

About the Authors

2024-05-06 Volume 18 • Spring 2024