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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,...
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...
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With the rise of digital technology, images of Black people murdered at the hands of law enforcement have inundated various media outlets and influenced a surge in social activism. Recent protests,...
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...
The UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive is thrilled to announce the publication of Our Culture Resounds, Our Future Reveals: A Legacy of Filipino American Performing Arts in California. Our Culture...
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The UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive is thrilled to announce that photos from the Donn Borcherdt Collection are now online as part of UCLA Library Digital Collections. Donald R. Borcherdt, known as "Donn" to his friends and colleagues, received his B.A. from UCLA...
The UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive is thrilled to announce the publication of Our Culture Resounds, Our Future Reveals: A Legacy of Filipino American Performing Arts in California. Our Culture Resounds, Our Future Reveals: A Legacy of Filipino American Performing Arts in...
