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The Journal of Music

Irish music magazine

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ6108508 ↗
Source-derived summary

Journal of Music (formerly Journal of Music in Ireland, or JMI) is an Irish music magazine founded in 2000. It "has been a critical voice in Traditional and Contemporary musics since 2000". In 2009 it was relaunched as the Journal of Music.

In 2010, the Journal of Music was the recipient of Utne Reader magazine's Utne Independent Press Award for Arts Coverage.

Editorial summary

“The Journal of Music” enters the record as irish music magazine. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Journal, Music and Irish can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000, 2009, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Journal, Music and Irish.
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Why this record matters

“The Journal of Music” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Journal, Music and Irish provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6108508. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2000, 2009 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Journal of Music” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.