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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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Tone-colour has historically played a remarkably important role in Japanese music, often taking priority over precision in pitch. Though pitch / melodic flow and tone-colour both play important roles...
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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Deeply interdisciplinary, the field of ecomusicology is a branch of study exploring the various and complex nexus between people, nature and sounds. Ecomusicologists can come from the...
Savage (2019) paints a devastating portrait of the music industry’s current state. In the United States, record sales have dropped about 80% in the last decade: from 450 to 89 million, and its...
Described as a Gesamtkunstwerk (an all-encompassing comprehensive art form), Rammstein’s rise to musical prominence has centered on their unique artistic and performance practice. The...
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Chilean Cacerolazo: Pots and Pans, Song and Social Media to ProtestFigure 1. Student Strike in 2012. Image from Creative Commons. Introduction The fall of 2019 was...
Deeply interdisciplinary, the field of ecomusicology is a branch of study exploring the various and complex nexus between people, nature and sounds. Ecomusicologists can come from the fields of composition, acoustic ecology, bio-acoustics, ethnomusicology,...
