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Highlights from the Ethnomusicology Archive: the Irwin Parnes collection
Los Angeles-based impresario Irwin Parnes (1917-1994) was best known for pioneering the staging of multicultural, multiethnic productions. Parnes was the longtime managing director of the...
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Rancheras Chilenas en el Alto Bio Bio
El artículo de Crossing Borders de este mes es de la autoría de Pablo Catrileo Aravena (1981), músico, autor y compositor popular y Licenciado en Educación, nacido y criado entre las ciudades de...
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Niggaz Wit Attitudes (N.W.A) vs. BuKnas de Culiacan: Conceptualizing...
When people become marginalized from the society at large, it is made clear that they do not belong to the dominant discourse. Thus, they are boxed into a category (or categories) that functions to...
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The “Resistant Embrace”: The Unstable Intersections of Ethnomusicology, Jazz,...
The description of this section of the Ethnomusicology Review Sounding Board reads as follows: “Honoring the jazz roots of foundational ethnomusicologists such as Mantle Hood, Alan Merriam, Charles...
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Review | Sound Targets: American Soldiers and Music in the Iraq War
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...
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Future Humans: Will Our Bodies Become Multiplanetary?
Our post this month comes from Elizabeth Stela, a PhD student in Ethnomusicology at UC Riverside. As a former dancer with the Martha Graham Ensemble, she is interested in how the body reacts to...
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Highlights from the Ethnomusicology Archive: Carol Merrill-Mirsky
UCLA Ethnomusicology alumna Carol Merrill-Mirsky (Ph.D. 1988, M.A. 1984) was Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Archives and Hollywood Bowl Museum for 25 years and retired in 2015. She is...
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Thank you and Goodbye to our Associate Editor, Dean Reynolds
Greetings everyone! I hope May is coming to a fruitful end for all of you. I am writing to announce that Dean Reynolds, our Associate Editor for Space is the Place, will be leaving our editorial team....
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Interview with Sonny Rollins, Musical and Spiritual Autodidact
When I first spoke with jazz saxophone legend Sonny Rollins in May 2011, interviewing him in advance of a concert in Newark, I remember being struck by the combination of confident dedication and...
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Review| Longing for the Past: The 78 rpm Era in Southeast Asia
Longing for the Past: The 78 rpm Era in Southeast Asia, Edited by David Murray with Essays and Annotations by Jason Gibbs, David Harnish, Terry E. Miller, David Murray, Sooi Beng Tan, and Kit Young....
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Review | We, the Multitude of Losers: Saul Williams’ Martyr Loser King
We, the Multitude of Losers: Saul Williams’ Martyr Loser KingReviewed by Ben Dumbauld / City University of New York For the so-called millennial generation, the term “loser” has gone through an...
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Tuning Thingamajigs: Ecological implications of tuning practices and theories...
Music for People and Thingamajigs Thingamajigs began in 1997 when two old friends met for the first time and started the Music for People and Thingamajigs Festival, a still extant annual...
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The Illuminated City of Memory: Double Edge Theatre in Jamaica Plain
Our post this month comes from Brian Fairley, a second-year Master’s student in Ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University. Prior to his graduate studies, he was the music director and dramaturg for Double...
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Stuff Smith & Robert Crum: Two Souls Touch
On Wednesday evening, 20 December 1944, a concert was held at Times Hall in New York. Touted as a presentation of “The New Jazz,” the concert was arranged by View: the Modern Magazine, a quarterly...
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The Agency of a Lute: Post-Field Reflections on the Materials of Music
As I lie drifting to sleep in my hotel room, I hear a groan, an exasperated sound of tension releasing, eeeoowwwhh. Rousted from my hypnogogic state, I feel a jolt of adrenaline as the vibrational...
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Review | ¡Corrido!: The Living Ballad of Mexico’s Western Coast
¡Corrido!: The Living Ballad of Mexico’s Western Coast. By John H. McDowell. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2015. [456 pp. ISBN:978-0-8263-3743-6. Hardcover $55.00]. Reviewed by Alejandro...
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Highlights from the Ethnomusicology Archive: More Mantle Hood materials...
Mantle Hood (1918-2005) was a pioneer in the field of ethnomusicology and the Founder and Director of the UCLA Institute (now Department) of Ethnomusicology. Hood was on the UCLA Faculty from 1956 to...
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La Metamorfosis Performática Musical de los Jóvenes Emberá
El artículo de Crossing Borders de este mes es de la autoría de Juan Carlos Molano Zuluaga, músico y compositor colombiano, licenciado en música por la Universidad de Caldas en Colombia y Magister en...
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Dave King's RATIONAL FUNK: Pedagogy, Criticism, and Productive Absurdity
“Dave King is a professional.” These five words on the about page for RATIONAL FUNK, an instructional program by drummer Dave King, credential whatever insights he offers in a video series spanning 60...
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Producing Culture from Afar: Equatoguinean Musicians in Spain
Over the past three decades, a number of popular musicians from Equatorial Guinea have settled in Spain. Taking advantage of new infrastructures, better-established record labels, and a variety of...
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