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 20 • Summer 2026
Back Matter
Pop, Populism, and Pandemic: The Swedish Soundtrack of Radicalization
Joanna Zienkiewicz, Edvin Guevara and Melanie Schiller
2026-06-29 Volume 20 • Summer 2026
Captivity in the Concert Hall: Prisoner of War Music as Propaganda in Occupied Paris, 1940-1945
Mary Margaret Zrull
2026-06-29 Volume 20 • Summer 2026
Folksong Research and Ethnic Trauma in the Czech Lands
Kelly St. Pierre
2026-06-29 Volume 20 • Summer 2026
From Soviet Narratives to Chinese Reinterpretations: Mozart, Beethoven, and Socialist Ideology in China During 1949–1966
Jiaoyang Ji
2026-06-29 Volume 20 • Summer 2026