This volume presents a collection of articles based on papers given at the 2nd conference of the Word and Music Association Forum, held at Stockholm, in November 2012. The conference topic, Ideology in Words and Music, attracted contributions that reflected both the variety and the depth of interactions among music, words and various forms of ideology. The essays in this collection address such topics as the influence of ideology on the composition and reception of musico-literary works, intermedial references to music in literature, and ideological presumptions affecting conceptions of both music and of word and music studies itself. The Word and Music Association Forum (WMAF) is a network of emerging scholars in word and music studies, founded in 2009 to offer graduate students and post-docs a forum for presenting and discussing work in word and music studies.