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Ethnomusicology Review offers diverse scholarly approaches to musical practice in the form of articles, essays, and reviews. We invite you to explore a preview of Volume 22 and past issues of our peer-reviewed annual journal as well as our Sounding Board, featuring seven columns of invited essays and reviews published weekly.
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Welcome to Volume 22, issue 1 of Ethnomusicology Review! This issue features an invited essay along with three peer-reviewed articles that cover a wide range of topics, geographical areas,...
The following claim, for some of us, seems obvious: the normative disciplinary boundaries of music studies—historical musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, and composition—are...
Figure 1. Muscat. Muscat is known internationally as a low-key, unassuming city with a faint aura of Indian Ocean mystique. Far less ostentatious or fast-paced than other Gulf capitals, Muscat...
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Singing Ideas: Performance, Politics, and Oral Poetry. By Tríona Ní Shíocháin. New York: Berghahn Books, 2017. 214 pp. ISBN: 9781785337673Reviewed by Emily HynesTríona Ní Shíocháin’s short...
What is a false memory? A sonic one at that? Is it when a person remembers things, events, places, feelings, thoughts and spaces that were untrue? I remember events that I never experienced before....
Sound-Politics in São Paulo. By Leonardo Cardoso. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 247 pp. ISBN: 9780190660109Reviewed by Patrick MurphyLeonardo Cardoso’s Sound-Politics in São Paulo...
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The UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive is thrilled to announce the publication of Our Culture Resounds, Our Future Reveals: A Legacy of Filipino American Performing Arts in California. Our Culture Resounds, Our Future Reveals: A Legacy of Filipino American Performing Arts in...
What is a false memory? A sonic one at that? Is it when a person remembers things, events, places, feelings, thoughts and spaces that were untrue? I remember events that I never experienced before. Toni Morrison did too, and look at the worlds she invited her readers into....
