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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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Death is everywhere and nowhere. Counting death has become a national pastime as the number of COVID-19 related deaths in the United States climb past 200,000, 250,000 and upwards on the daily news...
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...
Straight lines are arranged on a page in landscape format, marking themselves out from each other at their junction point: vertical and horizontal lines, some obliques. They're organized...
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From 1980 to 1994, Los Angeles (now Tokyo-based) composer Carl Stone hosted the radio program Imaginary Landscape on KPFK.Broadcasting every week...
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 ...
Hearing the Crimean War: Wartime Sound and the Unmaking of Sense. Ed. by Gavin Williams. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. li, 268. Bibliography. Index. $41.95, paper. On May 24, 1854, a...
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UCLA is a major center for Hip Hop Studies both nationally and internationally with nearly a dozen scholars writing and researching the culture. Hip Hop Studies has a long history at UCLA, starting with one of the pioneering academics in the field,...
From 1980 to 1994, Los Angeles (now Tokyo-based) composer Carl Stone hosted the radio program Imaginary Landscape on KPFK.Broadcasting every week for several years the show has been a key space for avant-garde electronic...
