About this Journal
Music and Politics is an open access, peer-reviewed, academic journal first published in 2007.
Recommended Reading:
"Mixed Motives: Soviet Symphonies and Propagandistic Duplicity in The Iron Curtain (1948)" by Nathan Platte
Volume XVI, Issue 2 (Summer 2022)
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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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Orienting a Nation: The Turkish National Anthem Controversies
Audrey M. Wozniak
2023-09-06 Volume 17 • Issue 2 • Summer 2023
“No Anthem Linked to Russia”: Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 at the Olympic Games
Lena Leson
2023-09-06 Volume 17 • Issue 2 • Summer 2023
Dancing with Anthems, Godzilla and Laser Pointers: Performance as Protest in the Post-Umbrella Movement Era and the 2019 Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill movement in Hong Kong
Ho-yan Tang
2023-09-06 Volume 17 • Issue 2 • Summer 2023
“Disinclined to Politicize”? Music and Canadian Politics 2.0
Rebecca Draisey-Collishaw and Kip Pegley
2023-09-06 Volume 17 • Issue 2 • Summer 2023