What's Goin' On

Sound Targets: American Soldiers and Music in the Iraq War. By Jonathan Pieslak. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2009. [240 pp. ISBN: 978-0-253-22087-5. Paperback: $21.95; EBook $18.65].

Reviewed by Matthew Sumera / University of Minnesota

Analyzing a Convention: the 2014 Guitar Foundation of America Convention at California State University, Fullerton

Reviewed by Albert R. Diaz / University of California, Los Angeles

Greetings everyone and Happy March! 

Ethnomusicology Review (ER) is looking for Associate Editors to curate Sounding Board’s Space is the Place and Crossing Borders.

Ethnomusicology Review (ER) is seeking to expand its circle of scholars for book reviews and extends an invitation in particular to music scholars and graduate students in Ethnomusicology, Musicology, Sound Studies, Jazz and Popular Music studies to submit a book review to our Journal.  

Women’s Songs from West Africa. Edited by Aissata G. Sidikou and Thomas A. Hale. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014.

Lucas Zangirolami Bonetti is a PhD candidate at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in São Paulo, Brazil. He is currently a Visiting Graduate Researcher in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of California, Los Angeles where he is conducting field research on the work of Brazilian composer Moacir Santos.

Korean P’ansori Singing Tradition: Development, Authenticity, and Performance History. By Yeonok Jang. Plymouth: The Scarecrow Press, 2014. [312 p., ISBN 978-0-8108-8461-8, Ebook: £51.95; Cloth: £51.95].

Brass Bands of the World: Militarism, Colonial Legacies, and Local Music Making. Edited by Suzel Ana Reily and Katherine Brucher. (Soas Musicology Series) Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2013.

Voices from the Canefields: Folksongs from Japanese Immigrant Workers in Hawai’i. By Franklin Odo. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. [xxviii, 242 pp. ISBN9780199813032, Hardback: $49.50.]. 

Reviewed by Jennifer Milioto Matsue / Union College