Traditions of Music and Dance

Traditions of Music and Dance is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on folk music and dance. It is published by the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance, twice a year. The editor-in-chief is Lonán Ó Briain. The journal was originally established in 1949 as the Journal of the International Folk Music Council, renaming itself Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council in 1969, and Yearbook for Traditional Music in 1981, obtaining its current title in 2025. The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Current Contents/Arts & Humanities.^[1]

Traditions of Music and Dance

Discipline	Music and dance research
Language	English
Edited by	Lonán Ó Briain
Publication details
Former name(s)	Journal of the International Folk Music Council; Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council; Yearbook for Traditional Music
History	1949–present
Publisher	International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance
Frequency	Biannual
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Tradit. Music Dance
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0740-1558 (print) 2304-3857 (web)
LCCN	82647116
JSTOR	07401558
OCLC no.	960771625
Links
Journal homepage