Aims & Scope

MPAR publishes research and practice-based inquiry that offers a clear scholarly, critical, historical, methodological or creative contribution to music and performing arts.

Scope

• Musicology, ethnomusicology and music theory
• Composition, improvisation and creative practice
• Performance studies and performance research
• Theatre, drama, dance and movement
• Voice, sound studies and listening cultures
• Popular, classical, folk, Indigenous and experimental practices
• Music and performance technology, recording and digital media
• Pedagogy, participation and community arts
• Production, directing, dramaturgy, choreography and design
• Archives, notation, repertoire and performance history
• Arts policy, labour, institutions and cultural industries
• Interdisciplinary and intercultural performance

Event reports, promotional reviews or descriptions of creative work without a clear method, critical argument and transferable contribution are outside scope.