Crossing Borders

Curated by Andrea Decker

Killing Them Softly: Ghosts and the Unspeakable in East Java, Indonesia

Our post this month comes from Andrea Decker, a second-year graduate student in ethnomusicology at UC Riverside currently working on her Master’s Thesis on infrastructure and gender in dangdut music videos. When not listening to dangdut or collecting ghost stories, Andrea knits, sings, plays tabla, and does Crossfit.

 

The Word Jazz in the Jazz World

In December 1917, U.S. Merchant Marine Truman Blair Cook wrote a diary entry describing his crew’s arrival in Arica, Chile—a small mining town near the country’s northern border. The following is excerpted from Oregon Historical Quarterly, where Cook's diaries were published in 1976:

Drone and Harmonic Variation: Finding a Constant Through Chord Changes

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Fatalistic Audiovisual Representation of AIDS in the Korea Music Video, "Loving Memory"

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Reading Opera Through the Visual Arts

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Video ex machina: Video Games, Music Videos, and Participatory Culture

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Collaboration, Fieldwork, and Film

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Musicology and Pedagogy: The Scratch Orchestra in the Classroom

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Entropy of Jazz

Each month, Ethnomusicology Review partners with our friends at Echo: A Music-Centered Journal to bring you “Crossing Borders,” a series dedicated to featuring trans-disciplinary work involving music.

Cultural Revolutions: a Study in Contrasts

Each month, Ethnomusicology Review partners with our friends at Echo: A Music-Centered Journal to bring you “Crossing Borders,” a series dedicated to featuring trans-disciplinary work involving music.

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