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Gaucho Poetry and Payador Balladry: Calculations to Define a Nation.
Figure 1.“Drawing of an Argentine gaucho playing his guitar”. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons under CC.IntroductionThere are few times that an entire genre can be identified as wholly exemplifying...
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Sounding Board in 2020 / Welcoming Our New Editors
As the managing editor of the Sounding Board, I would like to say: happy new year! We are excited to continue to provide a platform for a variety of voices from throughout the world of ethnomusicology...
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Call for Papers: Born to be Alive: Live Music as a Crucial Dimension of 21st...
Savage (2019) paints a devastating portrait of the music industry’s current state. In the United States, record sales have dropped about 80% in the last decade: from 450 to 89 million, and its plight...
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“Die Schwarze Germania:” Race, Gender and Monstrosity within Rammstein’s...
Described as a Gesamtkunstwerk (an all-encompassing comprehensive art form), Rammstein’s rise to musical prominence has centered on their unique artistic and performance practice. The industrial...
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Call for Contributions: Ecomusicology Sounding Board's section posts
Deeply interdisciplinary, the field of ecomusicology is a branch of study exploring the various and complex nexus between people, nature and sounds. Ecomusicologists can come from the fields of...
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Chilean Cacerolazo: Pots and Pans, Song and Social Media to Protest
Chilean Cacerolazo: Pots and Pans, Song and Social Media to ProtestFigure 1. Student Strike in 2012. Image from Creative Commons. Introduction The fall of 2019 was punctuated by a...
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Echoing Egypt: A Close Listening to Mahraganat’s Relationality
The only discernible stabilities in Relation have to do with the interdependence of the cycles operative there, how their corresponding patterns of movement are in tune. In Relation analytic...
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Reflections on Pandemic Pedagogy
When UCLA announced on March 13 that we would transition to remote instruction for the entirety of spring quarter, I had to quickly reconceptualize my graduate seminar. Like so many other instructors...
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Review | Sound-Politics in São Paulo
Sound-Politics in São Paulo. By Leonardo Cardoso. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 247 pp. ISBN: 9780190660109Reviewed by Patrick MurphyLeonardo Cardoso’s Sound-Politics in São Paulo brings an...
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Review | Singing Ideas: Performance, Politics, and Oral Poetry
Singing Ideas: Performance, Politics, and Oral Poetry. By Tríona Ní Shíocháin. New York: Berghahn Books, 2017. 214 pp. ISBN: 9781785337673Reviewed by Emily HynesTríona Ní Shíocháin’s short volume,...
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"Out for Presidents to Represent Me": The Breakfast Club, Hip-Hop, and the...
With the rise of digital technologies, the murders of Black people at the hands of law enforcement have increasingly been recorded and broadcasted through various media channels. The pressure from...
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Call for Contributions: Flip it and Reverse it: Hip-Hop Worldwide
Hip-hop started in the U.S. and its broad circulation has made it a global phenomenon. Decades after its birth, hip-hop is and has been resonating in a diversity of national, political and social...
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Research as Sites of Memory: Musings on N.E.R.D. and Tyler, the Creator
What is a false memory? A sonic one at that? Is it when a person remembers things, events, places, feelings, thoughts and spaces that were untrue? I remember events that I never experienced before....
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Our Culture Resounds, Our Future Reveals: A Legacy of Filipino American...
The UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive is thrilled to announce the publication of Our Culture Resounds, Our Future Reveals: A Legacy of Filipino American Performing Arts in California. Our Culture Resounds,...
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Donn Borcherdt photos (Mexico, Chile) now online
The UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive is thrilled to announce that photos from the Donn Borcherdt Collection are now online as part of UCLA Library Digital Collections. Donald R. Borcherdt, known as "Donn"...
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"Bâtards Sensibles" Insights into French Rap Production (excerpt from Bedroom...
This text is an excerpt from Laurent Fintoni's book Bedroom Beats & B-Sides: Instrumental Hip-Hop and Electronic Music at the Turn of the Century Author’s note: The following chapter is one of...
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Review | 24 Bars to Kill: Hip Hop, Aspiration, and Japan’s Social Margins
24 Bars to Kill: Hip Hop, Aspiration, and Japan’s Social Margins. By Andrew B. Armstrong. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. 193pp. ISBN: 9781789202670Reviewed by Anthony Bak Buccitelli While the...
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Review | Hearing the Crimean War
Hearing the Crimean War: Wartime Sound and the Unmaking of Sense. Ed. by Gavin Williams. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. li, 268. Bibliography. Index. $41.95, paper. On May 24, 1854, a handful...
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Imaginary Landscape: Composer to Composer Talks (1980s-1990s)
From 1980 to 1994, Los Angeles (now Tokyo-based) composer Carl Stone hosted the radio program Imaginary Landscape on KPFK.Broadcasting every week for several years the show has been a key space...
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Hip Hop Studies at UCLA: The Hip Hop Studies Working Group and Seminar
UCLA is a major center for Hip Hop Studies both nationally and internationally with nearly a dozen scholars writing and researching the culture. Hip Hop Studies has a long history at UCLA, starting...
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