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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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Since the 1970s, there has been a sustained scholarly interest in the musical instrument classification schemes of local communities...
Art by Evan Sanders Winner of the 2017 Lise Waxer NECSEM Prize During the era of the Black Lives Matter movement, which strives to combat and expose the...
“Can I Get A Witness”: Musicians Performing Politics in the U.S. Congress[1] Introduction To testify is to give a truthful account, to...
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In honor of the grand re-opening of the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, the World Music Center at UCLA and the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Department of Ethnomusicology presented a day-long...
IntroductionWhile the Mexican musical genre narco corridos has been subject to scholarly analysis (Ragland 2011; Simonett 2001; Wald 2001), the sub-genre known as movimiento alterado...
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...
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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 seems to expand as the myth builds and the interest for it grows. The more...
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 Look Inside The House of Records (2012) is a documentary you made about a...
