Music and the Moving Image Virtual Exhibit

The 21^st annual Music and the Moving Image Conference is taking place Friday, May 30, 2025, through Sunday, June 1, 2025. Presentations, like articles that appear in the journal, explore the relationship between the vast universe of moving images (film, television, streaming media, video games, and advertisements) and that of music and sound. These presentations are from scholars and practitioners, as well as from multidisciplinary teams that have pooled their knowledge to develop new perspectives or solve research problems regarding the relationship between music and moving images. If you missed your chance to present at the conference, you can still submit your work for consideration in the next issue of Music and the Moving Image!

Open Access (Free to Read for Everyone, Anytime!)

Did you know the latest issue of Music and the Moving Image is available open access as part of the Subscribe to Open program with Project MUSE? All of Volume 18 will be freely available indefinitely, starting with Volume 18, Issue 1, which is now available. You can learn more about the program from our blog post S2O announcement.

Volume 18, Issue 1, Spring 2025:

“Formal Integration and Star-Song Attractions in the Cavalcade Musical: A Historical and Digital Analysis of MGM’s An American in Paris (1951)” by Elsa Marshall
“‘Do You Hear the People Sing?’: Live Singing in Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables” by Daniele Peraro
“Prima Donna in the Jungle: Opera, Class, and Race in RKO Pictures’ Hitting a New High (1937)” by Gina Bombola

Individual articles can be made open access in the journal as well. See our open access policy for more information.

“Music, Noise, and Nature: Energetic Ambiguities in Benedikt Erlingsson’s Woman at War” by Heidi Hart and Beate Schirrmacher (Vol. 15, Iss. 3)

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Individual subscriptions can be made through the University of Illinois Press website. Or, to recommend this title to your institutional or public library, fill out this Library Request Form. Subscribers, read on for some more special issues and recommended reading available with an individual or institutional online subscription. Plus, other journals and books of interest!

Themed Special Issues

Music and the Moving Image occasionally publishes special themed issues. Check out some of the most recent here:

“Listening to/with Game Worlds,” edited by Kate Galloway (Vol. 16, Iss. 3)
“Mute Film,” edited by Ronald H. Sadoff and Robynn J. Stilwell (Vol. 16, Iss. 2)
“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” edited by Anna Knapp, Raymond Knapp, Zelda Knapp, and Jessica Shine (Vol. 13, Iss. 3)

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