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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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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...
This text is an excerpt from Laurent Fintoni's book Bedroom Beats & B-Sides: Instrumental Hip-Hop and Electronic Music at the Turn of the Century Author’s...
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...
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This text is an excerpt from Laurent Fintoni's book Bedroom Beats & B-Sides: Instrumental Hip-Hop and Electronic Music at the Turn of the Century Author’s note: The following chapter is one of three focusing on what happened...
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...
