Journal of World Popular Music
Last updated ISSN 2052-4900
Journal of World Popular Music is published by Equinox Publishing in arts and humanities. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of World Popular Music concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Music History and Culture
- Diverse Musicological Studies
- Asian Culture and Media Studies
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
- Musicology and Musical Analysis
- Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
- Cinema and Media Studies
- Diverse Music Education Insights
- Caribbean history, culture, and politics
- Theater, Performance, and Music History
Key facts
| Publisher | Equinox Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2052-4900, 2052-4919 |
| Subject area | Arts and Humanities |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Emerging Sources Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 286 |
| Publishing since | 2014 |
| Journal website | www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/JWPM |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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