Academic Journal
Q2Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education
About Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education
Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education is a scholarly journal published by The Mayday Group. SCImago 2025 lists it in Q2, with an SJR of 0.574 and H-index of 10.
Coverage: 2020-2026. Research categories: Education (Q2).
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Topics in published research
Diverse Music Education Insights; Diverse Musicological Studies; Music History and Culture; Art Education and Development; Musicology and Musical Analysis; Neuroscience and Music Perception.
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Artistic Empathy in Music Education: A Curricular Response for a Shifting Sociopolitical Landscape
Nicholas R. McBride, Cara Faith Bernard
2026-05-01 · DOI: 10.22176/act25.3.107Examining Music Educators' Support for the DEI Backlash
Karen Salvador
2026-05-01 · DOI: 10.22176/act25.3.56Resonant Voices in the Borderland: The Teacher-Researcher Experience Amid Cultural and Political Turbulence in Music Education
Drew X. Coles, Skye E. Wright
2026-05-01 · DOI: 10.22176/act25.3.84Learning to Listen While the World Shouts: Music Education, Divisive Rhetoric, and What Remains Possible
Kelly Bylica, Sophie Ailsa Lewis, Name Withheld
2026-05-01 · DOI: 10.22176/act25.3.1Lacking Subtlety: A Critical Analysis of the Project 2025 Report and Impacts on Music Education
Joshua Palkki, Justin Caithaml
2026-05-01 · DOI: 10.22176/act25.3.13Constructions of Musical Ability: Discursive Evidence from High School Instrumental Music Students
Adam Harry
2026-02-01 · DOI: 10.22176/act25.2.24Interconnectedness, Mycelium, and Black Feminism: An Anti-Oppressive Praxis for Music Educators
Amy Lewis
2026-02-01 · DOI: 10.22176/act25.2.124A Critical Exploration into the Rhythm and Pitch of Capitalism in Music Education
Adrian Davis
2026-02-01 · DOI: 10.22176/act25.2.55Historical Roots and Creative Relations
Lauren Kapalka Richerme
2026-02-01 · DOI: 10.22176/act25.2.1Relations Matter: Music Education Research Beyond the Self
Eva Georgii-Hemming, Nadia Moberg
2026-02-01 · DOI: 10.22176/act25.2.98The Miseducation of the Negro Music Educator
Loneka Wilkinson Battiste
2026-02-01 · DOI: 10.22176/act25.2.6Straightforward? Queering High School Show Choir
Brandon Magid
2026-01-01 · DOI: 10.22176/act25.1.115A Catholic Ecological-Praxial Realization of Transcendent Beauty: Is 21st Century Music Education a Religion?
Daniel J. Shevock
2026-01-01 · DOI: 10.22176/act25.1.143Intersectional Identities: Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy Through the Lens of Chinese American Music Education
Christy Go, Garrett Graves
2026-01-01 · DOI: 10.22176/act25.1.7Black Music, White Halls: Toward a Black American Music Curriculum
Paul Hunt
2026-01-01 · DOI: 10.22176/act25.1.52Unsettling the Researcher’s Gaze: Rendering a Diffractive Account of Music Studio Teachers’ Lived Experiences
Ryan Matthew Lewis
2026-01-01 · DOI: 10.22176/act25.1.77Sophrosyne as Symbolic Virtue in Music Education
Karen Howard
2026-01-01 · DOI: 10.22176/act25.1.39ACT Special Issue on the 35th MayDay Colloquium: University of Victory, Victoria, Canada, June 9–12, 2024
Anita Prest, Hector Vazquez-Cordoba
2026-01-01 · DOI: 10.22176/act25.1.1Interrogating “Spartan Strong”: The Michigan State University Response to Fatal Gun Violence
Saleel Adarkar Menon, Juliet Hess
2025-12-01 · DOI: 10.22176/act24.7.90Explicit Cultures— Music Education in an Accelerated World
Eirik Sørbø
2025-12-01 · DOI: 10.22176/act24.7.139Reviews
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