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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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I have always considered the observation of a musical manifestation more or less as the analysis of a musical “performance.” My recent interrogations and research about what is, in fact,...
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...
The following claim, for some of us, seems obvious: the normative disciplinary boundaries of music studies—historical musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, and composition—are...
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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 ...
Hip-hop started in the U.S. and its broad circulation has made it a global phenomenon. Decades after its birth, hip-hop is and has been resonating in a diversity of national, political and...
With the rise of digital technologies, the murders of Black people at the hands of law enforcement have increasingly been recorded and broadcasted through various media channels. The pressure from...
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Hip-hop started in the U.S. and its broad circulation has made it a global phenomenon. Decades after its birth, hip-hop is and has been resonating in a diversity of national, political and social contexts, with youth continuously reinventing it for their specific...
With the rise of digital technologies, the murders of Black people at the hands of law enforcement have increasingly been recorded and broadcasted through various media channels. The pressure from recent protests has America facing its “peculiar institutions”...
