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Transcending methodological borders and encouraging intercultural understanding, Ethnomusicology Review offers diverse scholarly approaches to musical practice in the form of articles, essays, and reviews.
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In his 2005 essay, “Games, the New Lively Art,” media scholar Henry Jenkins reflects on the increasing ubiquity of video gaming as a form of digital entertainment, as he writes: "...
Documentos de tiempos de cambios tecnológicos: testimonios en el nacimiento de la modernidad sonora. Actualmente escuchamos música o sonidos grabados en cualquier momento y lugar. Desde nuestros...
Solo female singers of renown––often referred to as “divas”––can be important in forming an emotional connection between people and place. They often become...
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Mickey Katz (June 15, 1909 - April 30, 1985) was a clarinetist, comedian, bandleader, songwriter, and producer. He recorded Yiddish parodies of popular American (U.S.) songs from the 1940s to...
It's conference time again!Ethnomusicology is a field that's been notoriously resistant to definition. That kind of amorphous slipperiness is to be expected, after all, of a field that...
The Sound and Moving Image Collections at the British Library (formerly the British Library Sound Archive) hold over 3.5 million audio recordings, including one of the world's largest collections...
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Beyond 'Innocence': Amis Aboriginal Song in Taiwan as an Ecosystem (SOAS Musicology Series) By Shzr Ee Tan. Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2012. $114.95 Includes illustrations (black and white photos, map and music examples), appendices,...
We were all saddened to learn of the passing of Ray Giles, UCLA Ethnomusicology's Instrument Curator / Museum Scientist for many years (and a student of Mantle Hood's in the late 1960s and early 1970s). I well remember Ray and wanted to write a column in his...
