About

Our role is to expand the body of peer-reviewed scholarly journals in the Czech Republic to include one specializing in musicology and choreology. It also serves as a space for the publication activities of HAMU faculty and postgraduate students.

For musicological articles, preference will be given to those on topics that have been underrepresented in our country. Particularly:

music theory including the theory of interpretation,
ethnomusicology,
organology (including ethno-organology),
music historiography with the emphasis on the music history of the 20th and 21st centuries,
music aesthetics, music psychology, music management.

In the choreological part, articles are welcome from all areas of choreology and ethno-choreology, including historical issues, given that in the Czech Republic there exists no other research oriented periodical specialized on the research of dance.

The periodical is a continuation of a series of non-periodical collections of essays the history of which reaches as far as 1959.

In publication we follow the Živá hudba Ethical Codex
The periodical was founded January 5, 2011 (ISSN assigned)
ISSN 0514-7735 (Print)
ISSN 3029-8156 (On-line)
Periodicity: Once a year
Published by: The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague

Živá hudba is distributed by NAMU – AMU Press. The full texts of the articles are available in open access mode on the journal’s website. Peer-reviewed articles and studies are available six months after the issue is published.

Živá hudba is published as an open access journal and uses the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Non-Processing 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International) license. The full text of the license terms is listed here: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International is a publicly available license terms that define the scope of authority for the use of the Work.

Detailed license terms for authors can be found in the For Authors section.