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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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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...
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...
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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...
Deeply interdisciplinary, the field of ecomusicology is a branch of study exploring the various and complex nexus between people, nature and sounds. Ecomusicologists can come from the...
Described as a Gesamtkunstwerk (an all-encompassing comprehensive art form), Rammstein’s rise to musical prominence has centered on their unique artistic and performance practice. The...
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Deeply interdisciplinary, the field of ecomusicology is a branch of study exploring the various and complex nexus between people, nature and sounds. Ecomusicologists can come from the fields of composition, acoustic ecology, bio-acoustics, ethnomusicology,...
Described as a Gesamtkunstwerk (an all-encompassing comprehensive art form), Rammstein’s rise to musical prominence has centered on their unique artistic and performance practice. The industrial metal band within the Neue Deutsche Härte (new German...
