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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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This book is the culmination of decades of work on Hip Hop culture and Hip Hop activism in South Africa. It speaks to the emergence and development of a unique style of Hip Hop on the Cape...
Welcome to Volume 22, issue 2 of Ethnomusicology Review! We open with a timely invited essay by Rachel Mundy, which examines the presence of a musical zoopolitics in the popular considerations of...
E. M. Forster’s colonial novel A Passage to India is brimming with music, though almost exclusively Western styles. Even as one might expect some mention of Indian music within this volume...
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24 Bars to Kill: Hip Hop, Aspiration, and Japan’s Social Margins. By Andrew B. Armstrong. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. 193pp. ISBN: 9781789202670Reviewed by Anthony Bak Buccitelli ...
This text is an excerpt from Laurent Fintoni's book Bedroom Beats & B-Sides: Instrumental Hip-Hop and Electronic Music at the Turn of the Century Author’s...
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24 Bars to Kill: Hip Hop, Aspiration, and Japan’s Social Margins. By Andrew B. Armstrong. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. 193pp. ISBN: 9781789202670Reviewed by Anthony Bak Buccitelli While the formal research process for anthropologist Andrew...
This text is an excerpt from Laurent Fintoni's book Bedroom Beats & B-Sides: Instrumental Hip-Hop and Electronic Music at the Turn of the Century Author’s note: The following chapter is one of three focusing on what happened...
