About

Marc Hannaford, Editor
Inderjit Kaur, Editor

Music & Politics is a peer-reviewed electronic journal first published in 2007 and is published online every spring. We welcome submissions (articles, and colloquy and special issue proposals) that explore the interaction of music and politics, and are in conversation with music studies, broadly understood. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the impact of politics on the lives of musicians and musical communities, music as a form of political discourse, the political meanings of music scholarship, the influences of ideology on musical historiography, and pedagogical issues and strategies pertaining to the study of music and politics in the classroom. We also welcome submissions of relevant articles that have already been published in another language and that would benefit from dissemination in English translation (authors should indicate that their submission is a translation in such cases). Submissions are encouraged from both established scholars and doctoral students. Because Music & Politics is an online journal, authors are welcome to take advantage of the media capabilities of the web (sound files, hyperlinks, color images, and video). Our issues will also include a book list of items published in the last year in the area of music and politics.

Open-Access Statement

This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or their institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. Authors do not pay any fee for publishing in the journal.

Authors of published articles retain their full copyrights without restriction. By default, articles in Music & Politics are published under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Authors may elect a different Creative Commons license in consultation with the editors and publisher, if so desired.