Ethnomusicology Review, Volume 18 (2013)
Editorial
Welcome to Volume 18 of Ethnomusicology Review, featuring peer-reviewed articles, prize-winning papers, and Sounding Board essays from the past year. This year’s major change is the...
Articles
Virtuoso Performers and Virtuosic Gestures Research on human perception of sounds has indicated that people possess much ecological knowledge on sounds originating from different...
Between June 2008 and July 2009, I conducted a series of kūkākūkā (discussion) and listening sessions with seventeen prominent composers and performers of Hawaiian language music on the islands of...
It would not be outrageous to claim that the musical traditions of New Orleans were the wellspring of twentieth-century popular music. The city’s music has been most profoundly influential in...
In the political imagination there is a stubborn fiction of a time when war was a heroic pursuit. In this narrative the sons of the wealthy and powerful—future elites and civic leaders—...
A lo largo de los años que llevo investigando mantuve una constante inquietud: ¿Por qué el tango se convirtió en parte importante del mapa cultural de Buenos Aires durante la década de 1990 en...
SEM Chapter Prize Winners
On my last night in Dublin, I met with a few of the Shamrock Rovers Ultras for my “going away” session at the pub that Fiachra worked at near St. Stephen’s Green. The Ultras are a...
While scholars of nationalism point to a standardized print media as an indispensable tool for creating communities and binding groups (Anderson 2006; Duara 1993; Gellner 1983; Gladney 1999), Thomas...
The United States far outspends every other nation’s military budget, accounting for almost half of the world’s defense expenditures.1 No doubt, the US enjoys a global military...
I thought I knew a lot about music, but I did not know the first thing about Balinese gamelan music. So, like any new graduate student in ethnomusicology, it was the first course in which I enrolled...
Sounding Board
The following posts appeared on the Sounding Board during the Volume 18 publication year.
Book Reviews, Album Reviews, and News
"What's Goin' On" offers informal essays, editorials and reviews pertaining to music-related projects, events, and publications/media. Contact moderator Scott Linford (scottlinford@gmail.com) if you’d like to contribute to this section of Sounding Board.
Notes from the Field
“Notes From the Field” provides music scholars a space to share their fieldwork experiences and network with colleagues with similar research interests. Contact Eric Schmidt (ejschmidt@ucla.edu) if you’d like to contribute to this section of Sounding Board.
Essays on Jazz
Honoring the jazz roots of foundational ethnomusicologists such as Mantle Hood, Alan Merriam, Charles Keil and Steven Feld, “Space is the Place” makes room for discussion regarding the intersections between ethnomusicology and jazz studies. Contact moderator Alex W. Rodriguez (alex.w.rodriguez@gmail.com) if you’d like to contribute to this section of Sounding Board.
Historical Perspectives in Ethnomusicology
"Historical Perspectives" is a space for sharing nascent thoughts and scholarship pertaining to music of both the distant and recent past. Contact Kristina Nielsen (kristinanielsen@ucla.edu) if you’d like to contribute to this section of Sounding Board.
Essays on Popular Music
"Bring the Noise" gathers contributions from the interdisciplinary field of popular music studies. Contact Mike D'Errico (michael.derrico@ucla.edu) if you'd like to contribute to this section of Sounding Board.
From the Archives
Posts in “From the Archives” highlight noteworthy items in the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive’s collection. The forum is open to archivists from other institutions as well. Contact Maureen Russell (mrussell@arts.ucla.edu) if you’d like to contribute to this section of Sounding Board.
Editorial & Advisory Boards
Editor-In-Chief
Scott V. Linford
Managing Editors
Alyssa Mathias
Alex W. Rodriguez
Technical Editor
Mike D'Errico
Reviews Editors
Eric Schmidt
Darci Sprengel
Editorial Board
Natalia Bieletto
Kevin Blankenship
Rose Boomsma
Logan Clark
Ron Connor
Benjamin Court
Ben Doleac
León García
Jennie Gubner
Deonte Harris
Alexandro Hernandez
Michael Iyanaga
AJ Kluth
Ryan Koons
Kevin Levine
Brendan Lucas
Tiffany Naiman
Kristina Nielsen
Verónica Pacheco
Andrew Pettit
Larry Robinson
Alexandra Roedder
Mehrenegar Rostami
Katie Stuffelbeam
Ty-Juana Taylor
Jessie Vallejo
Vivek Virani
Zachary Wallmark
Nolan Warden
Sarah Wilbur
Tim Wilkins
Dave Wilson
Advisory Board Members
Andrew Berish
Tara Browner
Julius Carlson
J. Martin Daughtry
Valerie Dickerson
Travis Jackson
Elisabeth Le Guin
Morgan Luker
Elizabeth Macy
Suzel Reily
Jonathan Ritter
Jesse Ruskin
CedarBough Saeji
Mike Silvers
Amy Stillman
