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Space Is The Place: Ethnomusicology of Jazz

Flip it and Reverse it: Hip Hop Worldwide

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Bring the Noise: Popular Music Studies

Ecomusicology

Crossing Borders

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David Shorter
In light of their newly designed website, the editors of Ethnomusicology Review have asked me to reflect on the role of the Internet in today’s academic world. Their request was an honor and a...
A Tribe Called Red (icon)
"General Generations" by A Tribe Called RedThe audio above is the result of a collaborative effort between A Tribe Called Red (ATCR) and Ethnomusicology Review (EMR) editor Nolan Warden....
On December 9, 2010, PRE editors Jessie Vallejo and Nolan Warden sat down to talk with Steven Loza, Professor of Ethnomusicology at UCLA. We were interested to know his current thoughts on...
A.J. Racy
In scholarly disciplines, specialized journals play a multi-faceted role. They demonstrate the intellectual concerns of the field they belong to, express the views and interests of individual...
Augusta Read Thomas, a New Music composer, was commissioned by the legendary Berlin Philharmonic to write an orchestral piece. Upon her arrival for the premiere in Germany, she held a press...
Some years ago, when I was still in graduate school at the University of Michigan, George Lipsitz came to give a talk. I can’t remember what it was about anymore. But he said something...
When I wrote a term paper on fiddle music of the Luo of Kenya as a final project for J. H. Kwabena Nketia’s Music of Africa course at UCLA in Spring 1971, I never imagined that I would...
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