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Cultural Revolutions: a Study in Contrasts
Each month, Ethnomusicology Review partners with our friends at Echo: A Music-Centered Journal to bring you “Crossing Borders,” a series dedicated to featuring trans-disciplinary work involving music....
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We Got the Jazz: Next Generation Jazz, Hip Hop and the Digital Scene
In 1991, American hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest released "Jazz (We've Got)" on their second album The Low End Theory, which featured a sample of Jimmy McGriff and Lucky Thompson’s live version of...
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A Don Ellis Portrait: Strawberry Soup
It all began as an assignment for Ethnomusicology 205. The two archivists (Aaron and Maureen) suggested archival collections to research that might specifically interest each student in the class....
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Reclaim & Sustain: Homemade Instruments in Music Education
What is made of wood, animal gut, horsehair, flaxseed oil, and sometimes a bit of toad or lizard skin? It sounds like a base for a magic potion, but in fact it is the ingredients for the most valuable...
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I, Ethnographer: A Reflection on Being (in) the Field
My first ethnographic fieldwork experience was a short trip to Jamaica, where I interviewed twenty Rastafarians regarding their perspectives on white people and non-Rastas participating in reggae...
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They were sent to their deaths from here.
Sounds of Plurality and Solidarity in Istanbul at the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide (Photo: "Where were you, God?" Armenian graffiti in Kurtuluş, Istanbul) On April 24, 2015, public...
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Entropy of Jazz
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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“She’s Not Just a Singer”: Voices, Instruments, and Musicality in Jazz
To begin, I invite you to watch this clip of Esperanza Spalding and Gretchen Parlato collaborating in recording Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “Inútil Paisagem,” plucking strings, clapping, clicking tongues,...
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Highlights from the Ethnomusicology Archive: the Charlotte Heth collection
Charlotte Heth has a long history at UCLA. In 1973, she began teaching a survey course on American Indian music. In 1975 she completed her disseration in Ethnomusicology, "Stomp dance music of the...
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Re-territorializing the Los Angeles John Zorn Marathon
“This is absurd,” I overheard a security guard mutter. Her statement was understandable given the amount of people crammed into a Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) gallery to listen to a...
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Discussion: Music in the Anthropocene
Editor's Note: In this short piece, composerNathan Currier responds to an article by Mark Perlman that appeared in a prior issue of the Ecomusicology Newsletter and previews a longer article of his...
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I, Ethnographer (Part 2): Ethnographic Roadmaps and Navigating Vibes
"I, Ethnographer (Part 1): A Reflection on Being (in) the Field," was published in Apirl, 2015.One afternoon in Kingston, Jamaica, during my first fieldwork experience, Bongo Shephan Fraser (my guide,...
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Review | Music in Kenyan Christianity: Logooli Religious Song
Music in Kenyan Christianity: Logooli Religious Song. By Jean Ngoya Kidula. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. [xv 312 pp. ISBN 978-0-253-00668-4, Paperback: 30.00, Cloth: 85:00, E-Book:...
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Musicology and Pedagogy: The Scratch Orchestra in the Classroom
Each month, Ethnomusicology Review partners with our friends at Echo: A Music-Centered Journal to bring you “Crossing Borders,” a series dedicated to featuring trans-disciplinary work involving music....
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70s Jazz in the Contemporary Classroom: A View from New York City
In the major narratives of jazz history, the 1970s seem to hold little of value.This is hardly an original observation. In a seminal article from 1991, Scott DeVeaux showed how critics and historians...
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More Ethnomusicology Archive Recordings Now Online at California Light and Sound
The UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive is thrilled to announce that the second round of recordings from our collections are now available at California Light and Sound Collection on the Internet Archive....
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Afropolitanism à la malienne
What is “Afropolitanism?” For most of its supporters and critics, this neologism in the Africanist lexicon connotes an elite cultural sensibility, celebrated by some as a sign of an artful and urbane...
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Collaboration, Fieldwork, and Film
Each month, Ethnomusicology Review partners with our friends at Echo: A Music-Centered Journal to bring you “Crossing Borders,” a series dedicated to featuring trans-disciplinary work involving music....
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The Sounds of Central Avenue
From the 1920s through the early 1950s, Central Avenue was the economic and social center for African American Los Angeles. It was also a hub for all Southern Californians who wanted to hear the latest...
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Made Out of Love: The Vision Festival Turns 20
The Vision Festival is an annual multi-arts festival centered around the avant-jazz aesthetic that has been developing in downtown Manhattan since the 1970s loft jazz scene. While largely a music...
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