Authors who wish to have an article considered for publication should send an electronic copy to Gordon E. Smith, Editor.
The Review Editors are Louise Barrière (French), Kate Alexander (English: ethnomusicology/traditional music) and Rebekah Hutten (English: popular music). Although unsolicited reviews are not accepted, suggestions for items to review (including books, films, and websites) are. For guidelines on how to write an academic review, please consult Wendy Belcher's Writing the Academic Book Review.
Copyright Policy
* The author retains copyright over the work.
* The author grants the journal owner (The Canadian Society for Traditional Music / La Société canadienne pour les traditions musicales) an exclusive licence to publish the work.
* The author may post a pre-print or post-print version of the work (see definitions below) on a personal website for up to twelve months after the work is published in MUSICultures. After twelve months, the pre-print version must be replaced with the published version.
* The author may deposit the published PDF of the work in a non-commercial online repository twelve months after the work publised in MUSICultures, or any time thereafter.
* Any such deposit must include a link to the work on the MUSICultures website, e.g., https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/MC/article/view/19996.
A pre-print is a work-in-progress—a contribution not yet accepted, or perhaps even submitted, to MUSICultures.
A post-print is the version of a contribution after peer review and acceptance by MUSICultures, with revisions completed.
The published version is the PDF file of a contribution as it appears in MUSICultures.
Please note that academia.edu and ResearchGate.com are both for-profit repositories; authors may not deposit the published PDF of the work in these repositories until after the journal’s embargo period.
For permission to reprint or translate material from MUSICultures, please contact Gordon E. Smith, General Editor of MUSICultures (gordon.smith@queensu.ca).
Journal History
The journal was formerly known as the Canadian Journal for Traditional Music / La Revue de musique folklorique canadienne, (1996-2009); prior to this it was the Canadian Folk Music Journal (1988-1996)