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Up Against All of Those Glass Ceilings: An Interview with Martha Velez
Martha Velez has had a long career as a musical adventurer. She grew up riding NYC subways to the Bronx High School of Music, and later to New York's High School of Performing Arts. Tour buses and...
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Introducing the New Team
Greetings All! My name is Rose Boomsma and I am excited to be taking on the role of Editor-in-Chief for Ethnomusicology Review. Having been involved in various ways with the journal for the past two...
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Review | Surfing about Music by Timothy J. Cooley
Surfing about Music.By Timothy J. Cooley. Berkeley:University of California Press, 2014. [240 p. ISBN 9780520276642. Paperback: $29.95; Hardcover: $65; E-Book Version: $29.95.]Reviewed by Michael J....
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Scratching the Surface: The Art(s) of Book and Music Making
Each month, Ethnomusicology Review partners with our friends at Echo: A Music-Centered Journal to bring you “Crossing Borders,” a series dedicated to trans-disciplinary music scholarship. ER Associate...
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Interview with Dr. David DeMotta on the Music of Bud Powell
Dave DeMotta is a New York-based pianist, scholar, and adjunct assistant professor at Hunter College. He holds a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the CUNY Graduate Center, and M.M. and B.M. degrees in...
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Highlights from UCLA's collections: the James Arkatov Photograph Collection
James Arkatov was born in 1920 in Odessa, Russia and raised in San Francisco, where his father, Alexander Arkatov, owned a photography salon. In 1938, he was invited by Fritz Feiner to join the...
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Music, Nature, Place: A New Book Series
by Sabine Feisst and Denise Von Glahn In fall 2012 Indiana University Press launched the book series Music, Nature, Place. The series is a forum for multidisciplinary scholarship that focuses upon the...
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Ethnomusicology of the Closet: A New Undergraduate Course Offered at UCLA
Eve Sedgwick ushered in new era of understanding in gay and lesbian studies in 1990 with the publication Epistemology of the Closet, but a major shortcoming of the book is that its treatment of gender...
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Rookie Cards: An Interview with Michael Frishkopf
From time to time, Sounding Board will bring interviews with former editors and staffers of Ethnomusicology Review (née Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology). We're calling this series "Rookie Cards" and...
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The 57th Grammy Awards Stay on Message
Sam Posner (PKA Sammy Bananas) is a producer and DJ living in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to his celebrated bootlegs, remixes, and original dance music for Fool's Gold Records, he founded and organizes...
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Review | The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the...
The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop. By Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. Berkley: University of California Press, 2013. [ix, 254 p. ISBN 978-0-520-24391-0. Hardcover:...
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dedicated to educators and advocates of music and museums
“Each month, Ethnomusicology Review partners with our friends atEcho: A Music-Centered Journal to bring you “Crossing Borders,” a series dedicated to featuring trans-disciplinary work involving music....
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Jazz Moments: Improvisation, Capitalism, and Time
Jazz improvisation is, or at least can be, a deeply resonant articulation of—and metaphor for—democratic human expression. This is axiomatic in the discourse. It is a theme that comes up again and...
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Highlights from the Ethnomusicology Archive: the Don Ellis collection
Don Ellis (1934-1978) was a jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader. Ellis won a Grammy in 1972 for Best Instrumental Arrangement for the Theme From The French Connection. He is probably best known...
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A Day in the Brousse
On a particularly bright and sunny morning, my field assistant Sylvain and I left Ouagadougou on the moto to go to a small town in the brousse, where we were supposed to find a fiddle player. I was in...
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Serenading the Mountains
As humans, we are intimately connected to the world around us. Similarly music intimately connects us individually. It makes perfect sense that there would be a field studying the connection between...
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Review | Shakin’ All Over: Popular Music and Disability by George McKay
Shakin’ All Over: Popular Music and Disability. By George McKay. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013. [242 pp. ISBN 978-0472052097. Paperback: $33.75; Hardcover: $80.00]. Reviewed by Jessica...
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Registration Open for the Inertia Conference
Official Press ReleaseRegistration now open for Inertia: A Conference on Sound, Media, and the Digital HumanitiesApril 30 – May 2, 2015Charles E. Young Research Library,...
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Cumbia Along the Autobahn: Rhizomatic Identities and Postnational Music...
In 2000, Emperor Norton Records released El Baile Alemán, a tribute album of some of Kraftwerk’s greatest hits re-imagined as salsas, rumbas, cumbias, merengues, and cha-cha-chas, performed by Señor...
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Review | World Flutelore: Folktales, Myths and Other Stories of Magical Flute...
World Flutelore: Folktales, Myths and Other Stories of Magical Flute Power. By Dale Olsen. Urbana- Champaign, Chicago, Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2014. [XX, 264 p. ISBN 9780252079412....
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