About this Journal
Music and Politics is an open access, peer-reviewed, academic journal first published in 2007.
Recommended Reading:
"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).
Read MoreVolume 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
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