The 21st annual Music and the Moving Image Conference is taking place Friday, May 29, 2026, through Sunday, May 31, 2026. 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 19 will be freely available indefinitely, starting with Volume 19, Issue 1, which is now available. This is the second year that the University of Illinois Press is participating in the S2O program. You can learn more about the program from our 2025 blog post S2O announcement.
Volume 19, Issue 1, Spring 2026:
- “Post-Bop Trauma: Polish Crime-Jazz Cinema and Its Westward Path to Hollywood” by David Melbye
- “Music, Race, and the Human-Animal Divide in Disney’s The Jungle Book and The Little Mermaid” by Wouter Capitain
- “Metafictional Vengeance: Ennio Morricone, Quentin Tarantino and The Hateful Eight” by Hugh Maloney
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)
Recommended Reading
What’s popular among subscribers of the Music and the Moving Image? Here are some articles that have been attracting attention from Vol. 18, which is also open access on Project MUSE:
- “Understanding the Music for Parasite (2019) by Jung Jae Il with Satire, Counterpoint, and Third Meaning” by Gui Hwan Lee
- “Prima Donna in the Jungle: Opera, Class, and Race in RKO Pictures’ Hitting a New High (1937)” by Gina Bombola
- “Musical Landscape of Attraction in the Heimatfilm” by Maria Fuchs
- “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
- “Voicing the Memoryscape of the Messiah: A Narrative Account of the Film Score in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part One (2021)” by Heidi Ka-Sin Lee
Music/Film Journals to Explore
- American Music
- Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education
- Ethnomusicology
- Jazz and Culture
- Journal of Film and Video
- The Operatic Kaleidoscope: Voice, Race, and the Ragtime Popular Stage by Kristen M. Turner
- Unstaged Grief: Musicals and Mourning in Midcentury America by Jake Johnson
- Inside Chinese Theater: Community and Artistry in Nineteenth-Century California and Beyond by Nancy Yunhwa Rao
- Art Music Activism: Aesthetics and Politics in 1930s New York City by Maria Cristina Fava
- The Possibility Machine: Music and Myth in Las Vegas edited by Jake Johnson