Traditions of Music and Dance is a refereed scholarly journal which carries essays, reviews, and reports in the area of traditional music and dance research. Traditions of Music and Dance was established in 1949 as the Journal of the International Folk Music Council, and it is published in English by the ICTMD Secretariat.

Performance, Prefiguration, and Politics at Attica
10 June 2025, Sophie Capobianco
How do we define success in radical politics? This is a question I have asked myself throughout my research and writing on what many historians, politicians,...

Celebrating 2000 Elements: Elements in Popular Music
02 April 2025, Rupert Till
I am series editor of the CUP Elements in Popular Music. I’ve previously edited a number of journals and was pleased to take the lead in a new series of publications...

The End of Theatre Groups?
14 October 2024, Richard Schechner
TDR’s (delayed) Fall 2024 issue (67, 3) features a retrospective on SITI Company, which began in 1992 and disbanded in 2022.…

J. S. Bach’s Enigmatic Suites for Solo Cello
10 September 2025, Edward Klorman
Compared with [J. S. Bach’s] six sonatas for violin without accompaniment these violoncello solos are light and unpretending. Nevertheless, they are interesting, The post J. S. Bach’s Enigmatic Suites for Solo Cello first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....

Variations on a Marian Theme in Late Medieval Orvieto
25 August 2025, Sara Nair James
In the twelfth through fourteenth centuries, at the height of the cult of the Virgin Mary, a rare and rich conflux of past and present events, both authentic The post Variations on a Marian Theme in Late Medieval Orvieto first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....