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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 Volume 21 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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“Can I Get A Witness”: Musicians Performing Politics in the U.S. Congress[1] Introduction To testify is to give a truthful account, to...
Since the 1970s, there has been a sustained scholarly interest in the musical instrument classification schemes of local communities...
Welcome to Volume 21 of Ethnomusicology Review! We are pleased to offer two articles and one invited paper that, taken together, provide...
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IntroductionIn the city of Tamale, northern Ghana, Dagbani language popular music can be heard in taxis, on people’s mobile phones, and in the central market. Unlike more traditional popular...
A Look Inside the House of Records: An Interview with Dr. David GraconInterviewed by Samuel Lamontagne Trailer for "Walls of Sound"Full movie here. 1. Walls of Sound: A...
Whether it’s through the media and entertainment industries or academia, Los Angeles hip-hop has been under close scrutiny for over two decades. Far from drying up, the history of L.A. hip-hop...
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One of the rewarding aspects of exploring Indonesian jazz communities is my relationship with members of Warta Jazz, an Indonesian jazz news source and website. What began as an organization to produce a monthly physical news bulletin in 1996 with the aim to socialize jazz...
Toward an Anthropology of Ambient Sound, Edited by Christine Guillebaud. New-York/Oxon: Routledge, 2017. [239 pp., illus. ISBN: 978-1-138-80127-1]. (Each paper is referenced with the author’s name and the geographical location of its research subject) ...
