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For artists, creativity plays a powerful role in understanding, confronting, and negotiating the crises of the present. Seeding the Tradition explores conflicting creativities in …
Site-specific expressive ecologies sustain Korean folk culture in a globalizing worldThe madang is a key space and concept for Korean drummers and dancers. Literally a village …
A study of transoceanic musical appropriation and Swahili ethnic subjectivity on the Kenyan coastSounds of Other Shores takes an ethnographic ear to the history of transoceanic …
Critical Brass tells the story of neofanfarrismo, an explosive carnival brass band community turned activist musical movement in Rio de Janeiro, as Brazil shifted from a country on …
Ethnography on the politics of land and belonging in post apartheid Zulu performancesWhat does it mean to belong? In The Land is Sung, musicologist Thomas Pooley shows how …
This book is an ethnographic study of sound archives and the processes of creative decolonization that form alternative modes of archiving and curating in the 21st century. It …
An Eastern Caribbean music festival as a window on social changeEvery year, on a weekend before Christmas, the small Caribbean island of Carriacou, Grenada, holds its annual Parang …
An exploration of ethical dynamism in vocal lifeWays of Voice is the first ethnomusicological monograph to delve deeply into the diverse, variegated techniques of voice production …
Genre Publics is a cultural history showing how new notions of 'the local' were produced in context of the Indonesian 'local music boom' of the late 1990s. Drawing on industry …
A vivid and intricate study of dance music traditions that reveals the many contradictions of Syrian identity in the 21st centuryDabke, one of Syria's most beloved dance music …