What's Goin' On

Curated by Rosaleen Rhee

Review | Music Glocalization: Heritage and Innovation in a Digital Age

Music Glocalization: Heritage and Innovation in a Digital Age, edited by David Hebert and Mikolaj Rykowski. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2018, hd, 375 pp. + index. ISBN: 1-5275-0393-3 

Reviewed by Victor Roudometof / University of Cyprus

Documenting a Landmark of L.A. Hip Hop History: The Roadium Mixtape Documixery

Whether it’s through the media and entertainment industries or academia, Los Angeles hip hop has been

Call for Papers: Ethnomusicology Review Volume 22

Review | Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño

Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño. By Alex E. Chávez. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. [440 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-7018-5].

Call for Reviewers for Books, Films, & Sound Recordings

Ethnomusicology Review is seeking to expand its circle of reviewers for books, films, and album/sound recordings. We extend an invitation in particular to music scholars and graduate students in Ethnomusicology, Musicology, Sound Studies, Jazz, and Popular Music Studies to submit a book review to our journal.      

Introducing the New 2018 Team

Happy 2018, fellow ethnomusicologists and music scholars!

Review | The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies. Edited by Trevor Pinch and Karin Bijsterveld. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. [624 pp., illus. ISBN: 978-01-953-8894-7].

Reviewed by Guillaume Heuguet / Université Paris Sorbonne

 

Review | Between Nostalgia and Apocalypse: Popular Music and the Staging of Brazil

Between Nostalgia and Apocalypse: Popular Music and the Staging of Brazil. By Daniel B. Sharp. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2014. [159 pp. ISBN 9780819575029. Paperback $27.95, $80.00 Hardcover, Ebook $21.99].

Reviewed by Andrea Douglass / University of Massachusetts Boston

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