Music and Performing Arts Review

Peer Reviewed | MPAR | Open Access

Music and Performing Arts Review (MPAR) is an English-language, quarterly, peer-reviewed, open-access journal for research and critical inquiry across music, theatre, dance, performance and related creative practices.

MPAR welcomes historically grounded, theoretically informed, ethnographic, analytical and practice-based work on performance, composition, interpretation, production, pedagogy, technology, communities and cultural contexts.

MPAR is published by Rohit Kumar, Individual Publisher, publishing under the Shodh Publishing imprint.

About the Journal

Music and Performing Arts Review (MPAR) is a quarterly, online-only, peer-reviewed journal for research and critical inquiry across music, theatre, dance, performance and related creative practices.

MPAR publishes original research articles, reviews, theory and criticism, practice-research papers, performance studies, ethnographic and historical work, archival studies, critical essays, case studies, interviews, research notes and short communications.

Manuscripts should define their scholarly or creative question clearly, document methods and sources transparently, situate performances and practices responsibly, and explain the contribution beyond an individual work or event. Articles are freely available under CC BY 4.0, with no submission fee or article processing charge.

MPAR is published by Rohit Kumar, Individual Publisher, under the Shodh Publishing imprint.

Journal Particulars

Journal title
Music and Performing Arts Review (MPAR)

Abbreviation
Music Perform. Arts Rev.

Starting year
2026

Publication format
Online only

Publication frequency
Quarterly (four issues per year)

Language
English

Subject
Music

Publisher
Rohit Kumar, Individual Publisher, publishing under the Shodh Publishing imprint

Publisher address
Piri Bazar, District Lakhisarai, Bihar 811112, India

Official email
info@shodhpublishing.com

Current Issue

Volume 1 · Issue 1

First issue in preparation

MPAR has not yet published its first issue.