A New Electronic Journal: Music and Politics

Music and Politics welcomes submissions of any length that explore the interaction of Music and Politics. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the impact of politics on the lives of musicians, music as a form of political discourse, and the influences of ideology on musical historiography. In addition, we seek articles that examine pedagogical issues and strategies pertaining to the study of Music and Politics in the undergraduate classroom. We also welcome suggestions and/or submissions of articles on Music and Politics that have already been published in another language and that would benefit from dissemination in English translation. Submissions are encouraged from both established scholars and graduate students. Because Music and Politics is an on-line journal, authors are welcome to take advantage of the media capabilities of the web (sound files, hyperlinks, color images, and video).

Each issue will contain:

  1. Articles by scholars in any field (musicology), ethnomusicology, film studies, political science, history, sociology, etc.) on music and politics
  2. A featured article, Music and Politics in the Classroom, covering topics that are appropriate for undergraduate classes and currently lacking in the literature
  3. A translation of an article on music and politics not previously published in English.
  4. A book list of items published in the last six months in the area of music and politics (Eunice Schroeder, Music Librarian, UCSB)
  5. An audio list of recordings and DVD’s published in the last six months on music and politics (Derek Katz, Assistant Professor of Musicology, UCSB)
  6. An article by a graduate student on any area of music and politics.

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Editorial Board

Submissions in electronic format, will be reviewed by the Editorial Board currently consisting of:

Paul Anderson (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Black studies, interactions between American music, social thought and literature

Paul Attinello (University of Newcastle) Queer identities, music and AIDS

Michael Beckerman (NYU) Music under communists, music and secrets, music and the Holocaust

Dick Flacks (UCSB) Music and social movements

Shirli Gilbert (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Music and resistance, the Holocaust, apartheid South Africa

Nancy Guy (UCSD) Music of Taiwan and China, music and state power, music in environmental activism

Trisha Rose (Brown University) Black popular music, music and technology, hip hop, cross racial and gendered exchanges through music

Jeremy Smith (University of Colorado, Boulder) Elizabethan music, music and print culture, William Byrd, Thomas Morley and national affairs

Joseph N. Straus (CUNY) Feminist theory, the social and historical construction of disability

Send submissions to: Patricia Hall, Editor (zhall@music.ucsb.edu) or David Paul, Assistant Editor (dpaul@music.ucsb.edu).

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First Issue

Articles to be included in the first issue:

Guido Fackler, "Music in Concentration Camps: 1933-1945"

Patricia Hall, "A Class in Music and Politics for Non-Majors"

Ralph Lowi, "Happy Jack's SUV: Asserting Happiness in a Post-PC World"

Jeremy Smith, "William Byrd, Religious Politics and the Missing Elegy of 1588: An Hypothesis"

Derek Katz, New CD's on Music and Politics

Eunice Schroeder, New Books on Music and Politics
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Submissions Guidelines

Submissions should be attached to an email to the Editor, Patricia Hall (zhall@music.ucsb.edu) or the Assistant Editor, David Paul (dpaul@music.ucsb.edu) and should include the following:

  • Cover page
  • Article text
  • Additional accompanying files

The Cover Page should be an MS word document that lists author’s name, article title, institutional affiliation, address, phone number, email address, a list of filenames for all parts of the submission, and an abstract that meets RILM guidelines (the details are available online at http://www.rilm.org/abstinfo.html).

The Article text should be an MS word document that includes the main body of the article and footnotes. Authors should include identifying captions for illustrative examples (musical figures, images, etc.) but not the examples themselves. (Examples should appear separately as additional accompanying files.) To facilitate anonymous peer review, authors are asked to avoid identifying themselves in this document. Footnotes should be in conformity with the guidelines given in the latest edition of The Chicago Manual of Style.

Additional accompanying files include examples and other kinds of supporting files (musical figures, sound files, images, video, etc.). Although Music and Politics is published in HTML form, readers are able to download high quality copies of articles in PDF format. To facilitate this, all images should be created with a resolution of at least 200 PPI. Make sure all file names are clear and include the appropriate extension to indicate their type (.jpg, .tif, etc.). Accepted image formats are Photoshop, JPEG, TIFF, and BMP.

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