En Abîme: Listening, Reading, Writing: An Archival Fiction. By Daniela Cascella. Zero Books, 2012. $16.95. enabime.wordpress.com
Reviewed by Lola San Martín Arbide, University of Salamanca, Spain.
Dr. CedarBough Saeji and Dr. Richard Colwell review the new book by Dr. David G. Hebert, Professor of Music at the Grieg Academy, Bergen University College, Norway
Wind Bands and Cultural Identity in Japanese Schools. New York: Springer, 2012. 287 pages with illustrations. $110 ebook, $140 hardcover.
Review by Dr. CedarBough Saeji:
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Memorial paper given by Dr. Susan Campos Fonseca, Casa de las Americas Musicology Award 2012
Submitted by Ryan Koons on December 17, 2012 - 3:56pm
The scandal is explicit on the flyleaf: The Castrato and His Wife, and historian Helen Berry weaves an account that fulfills her intriguing choice of title.
The title of this blog—“Ethno Muse Ecology”—comes from Nazir Jairazbhoy’s joking etiology of “ethnomusicology” as the study of the tenth Athenian muse, the “ethno muse.” I’ll be using it for more general thoughts about ethnomusicology itself, distinguishing it from my fieldwork blog (
La cantautora estadounidense Emily Pinkerton vino nuevamente a Chile hace pocas semanas. Según comentaba es la sexta vez que anda por acá desde que decidió conocer el país a mediados de los 90. Razones no le faltaban: había nacido en la localidad de Valparaiso (sin tilde) en el estado de Indiana, un pueblo creado en Estados Unidos durante el siglo XIX e inspirado en la ciudad chilena, por esos años un lugar clave para el comercio marítimo.
Submitted by Ryan Koons on September 19, 2012 - 8:33am
Based on ethnographic field research conducted in 2008, this audio essay discusses the integral role of song in the South African anti-apartheid movement (1948-1994) as seen through the eyes of two black women. Gloria Piliso and Nobulumko Bongco, both Xhosa residents of King Williams Town, South Africa, experienced apartheid and participated in the anti-apartheid movement.
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