Join us in celebrating Open Access Week — an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access (OA), to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make OA a new norm in scholarship and research [source: https://www.openaccessweek.org/] — with a reading list of our OA journals, journal articles, and books.
Browse our full list of open access titles here.

The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti
Evangelical Christians and members of the global LGBTQI human rights movement have vied for influence in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake. Each side accuses the other of serving foreign interests. Yet each proposes future foreign interventions on behalf of their respective causes despite the country’s traumatic past with European colonialism and American imperialism. As Erin L. Durban shows, two discourses dominate discussions of intervention. One maintains imperialist notions of a backward Haiti so riddled with cultural deficiencies that foreign supervision is necessary to overcome Haitians’ resistance to progress. The other sees Haiti as a modern but failed state that exists only through its capacity for violence, including homophobia. In the context of these competing claims, Durban explores the creative ways that same-sex desiring and gender-creative Haitians contend with anti-LGBTQI violence and ongoing foreign intervention.
Compelling and thought-provoking, The Sexual Politics of Empire examines LGBTQI life in contemporary Haiti against the backdrop of American imperialism and intervention.

Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought?is an open access, independent quarterly established to express Mormon culture and to examine the relevance of religion to secular life. It is published by the?Dialogue Foundation?and edited by Latter-day Saints who wish to bring their faith into dialogue with the larger stream of world religious thought and with human experience as a whole and to foster artistic and scholarly achievement based on their cultural heritage.

Aaron Copland in Latin America: Music and Cultural Politics
Between 1941 and 1963, Aaron Copland made four government-sponsored tours of Latin America that drew extensive attention at home and abroad. Interviews with eyewitnesses, previously untapped Latin American press accounts, and Copland’s diaries inform Carol A. Hess’s in-depth examination of the composer’s approach to cultural diplomacy. As Hess shows, Copland’s tours facilitated an exchange of music and ideas with Latin American composers while capturing the tenor of United States diplomatic efforts at various points in history. In Latin America, Copland’s introduced works by U.S. composers (including himself) through lectures, radio broadcasts, live performance, and conversations. Back at home, he used his celebrity to draw attention to regional composers he admired. Hess’s focus on Latin America’s reception of Copland provides a variety of outside perspectives on the composer and his mission. She also teases out the broader meanings behind reviews of Copland and examines his critics in the context of their backgrounds, training, aesthetics, and politics.

Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association
The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association (JALA) is the only journal devoted exclusively to Lincoln scholarship and is available online open access, after a short period. In addition to selected scholarly articles—on Lincoln in the popular media, for example, or British reactions to the War— the journal also features photographs and newly discovered Lincoln letters and other unpublished primary source documents. JALA is the official journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association.

Across the Waves: How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio
In 1931, the United States and France embarked on a broadcasting partnership built around radio. Over time, the transatlantic sonic alliance came to personify and to shape American-French relations in an era of increased global media production and distribution.
Drawing on a broad range of American and French archives, Derek Vaillant joins textual and aural materials with original data analytics and maps to illuminate U.S.-French broadcasting’s political and cultural development. Vaillant focuses on the period from 1931 until France dismantled its state media system in 1974. His analysis examines mobile actors, circulating programs, and shifting institutions that shaped international radio’s use in times of war and peace. He explores the extraordinary achievements, the miscommunications and failures, and the limits of cooperation between America and France as they shaped a new media environment. Throughout, Vaillant explains how radio’s power as an instantaneous mass communications tool produced, legitimized, and circulated various notions of states, cultures, ideologies, and peoples as superior or inferior.

Special Issue on “Effective Altruism” guest edited by Theron Pummer
Philosophical debates surrounding effective altruism have developed rapidly over the past decade or so. This open access special issue of PAQ deals with a range of philosophical issues at the heart of this ongoing public debate.?As the articles in this special issue suggest, there is still much to be explored.

What does music in Portugal and Spain reveal about the relationship between national and regional identity building? How do various actors use music to advance nationalism? How have state and international heritage regimes contributed to nationalist and regionalist projects? In this collection, contributors explore these and other essential questions from a range of interdisciplinary vantage points. The essays pay particular attention to the role played by the state in deciding what music represents Portuguese or Spanish identity. Case studies examine many aspects of the issue, including local recording networks, so-called national style in popular music, and music’s role in both political protest and heritage regimes. Topics include the ways the Salazar and Franco regimes adapted music to align with their ideological agendas; the twenty-first-century impact of UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage program on some of Portugal and Spain’s expressive practices; and the tensions that arise between institutions and community in creating and recreating meanings and identity around music.

“JazzTok: Creativity, Community, and Improvisation on TikTok” by D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye
This open access article relies on seventeen qualitative interviews with members of the JazzTok community to illustrate how the Duet feature offers a similar experience to the unpredictable and spontaneous nature of jazz improvisation. This article also explores how algorithmic recommendations influence the formation of digital musical communities of practice and how short video platforms are shifting modes of performance for jazz musicians.

Transforming Women’s Education: Liberal Arts and Music in Female Seminaries
Female seminaries in the nineteenth-century United States offered middle-class women the rare privilege of training in music and the liberal arts. A music background in particular provided the foundation for a teaching career, one of the few paths open to women.
Jewel A. Smith opens the doors of four female seminaries, revealing a milieu where rigorous training focused on music as an artistic pursuit rather than a social skill. Drawing on previously untapped archives, Smith charts women’s musical experiences and training as well as the curricula and instruction available to them, the repertoire they mastered, and the philosophies undergirding their education. She also examines the complex tensions between the ideals of a young democracy and a deeply gendered system of education and professional advancement.
An in-depth study of female seminaries as major institutions of learning, Transforming Women’s Education illuminates how musical training added to women’s lives and how their artistic acumen contributed to American society.