Earlier this year, I was perusing the Wayne and Wax blog, masterfully maintained by ethnomusicologist and DJ, Wayne Marshall. In one of his entries, he mentioned A Tribe Called Red (ATCR), a Native American DJ collective from Canada. I was immediately blown away by their original work, remixes, and video pieces.
This journal has a long history on the web, going back at least to 1996 when we were called Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology and still publishing print copies. For perspective on how early that was, consider that only about a decade earlier the editors were making the first issue of PRE in 1984 with a typewriter—when they said "copy and paste" they were actually using paste.
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