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The Disharmony of Grief: Why We Wrote “Pulses”
"Pulses," by Basil Considine and Courtney Stirn Last Call at Pulse Nightclub, and Then Shots Rang Out was the headline. Then, underneath it, Saturday was Latin Night at the club, which bills itself...
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The Thai King Passes, the Music Stops
In October 2016, I went to Thailand to gather sounds through field recording in order to compose a soundscape with sound artist Samuel Gouttenoire. This project was part of Le Festival de l’Imaginaire...
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Call for Papers: Ethnomusicology Review Volume 21
Callfor Papers: Ethnomusicology Review is now accepting submissions for Volume 21, scheduled for publication in Fall 2017. Our online format allows authors to rethink how they use media to present...
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Amy Brandon, the Scientific Guitarist
Launched in January, The Scientific Guitarist explores Amy Brandon's ongoing work in the intersections of guitar performance, jazz, and cognitive research. A lauded performer, composer, and educator...
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Introducing the New 2017 Team
Happy 2017, fellow ethnomusicologists and music scholars! My name is Otto Stuparitz and I am excited to become the Editor-in-Chief for Volume 21 of Ethnomusicology Review. Being involved with the...
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Film screening: African Maestro: the life and works of J. H. Kwabena Nketia
On 16 February 2017, the World Music Center at UCLA, Department of Ethnomusicology, Herb Alpert School of Music, presented the California premiere of African Maestro: the life and works of J. H Kwabena...
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Thoughts on Convergence and Divergence in Vocaloid Culture (and Beyond)
IntroductionSince the early 2000s, the concept of convergence has been discussed actively in the fields of media, fan, and popular music studies. Scholars in these fields have developed this concept to...
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Music, Climate, and Therapy in Kallawaya Cosmology (Part 1): Sonorous...
I am the same as the mountain, Pachamama. Pachamama has fluids which flow through her, and I have fluids which flow through me. Pachamama takes care of my body, and I must give food and drink to...
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Call for Contributions: Ethnomusicology Review's “Historical Perspectives” Blog
History is not a universal narrative of one tradition, one person, one people, or one nation; rather, it is the sum of all possible histories that may illuminate a present moment or place. To conduct...
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Douglas Ewart and the People's Idiophone
The People’s Idiophone was designed and constructed by Douglas R. Ewart in 2015-2016. It consists of pot covers, serving trays, hubcaps, cooking plates, cymbals, aluminum discs, and more, and it is...
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Sheikh Imam: “A Voice of the People”
IntroductionFor much of his adult life, Sheikh Imam ‘Issa (born Muhammad Ahmad ‘Issa, 1918- 1995) lived as many musicians did in early- to mid-twentieth century Cairo: eking out a living in a dual role...
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There’s No Place
The attraction that is exerted by ecocriticism arises through the force with which it invokes pressing aspects of the real. Even though the total scholarly field of such study is not singularly...
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Book Review Collaboration with Nonfiction.fr & Ascidiacea
Ethnomusicology Review is pleased to announce a new collaboration project with Collectif Ascidiacea and Nonfiction.fr, an open-access journal based in France which publishes reviews and essays on...
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The Vulture Speaks
Early in the process of sorting out who would write what, Alejandro and I agreed that we would not identify exactly where we encountered the badly damaged document that is our starting place for our...
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States of Disrepair and the Politics of Archival Neglect
by Alejandro García Sudo, UCLA, Department of MusicologyA picture can say more than a thousand words, but this one calls for scrutiny. That a centuries-old document is nearly destroyed might not sound...
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Outside In: Songs of Identity & Dignity for Eastern Indonesians in Java
This post comes from Chris Foertsch. Chris is a recent MA graduate from Oregon State University in Anthropology, currently in Indonesia on a Fulbright Research Fellowship to conduct preliminary...
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Review | Between Nostalgia and Apocalypse: Popular Music and the Staging of...
Between Nostalgia and Apocalypse: Popular Music and the Staging of Brazil. By Daniel B. Sharp. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2014. [159 pp. ISBN 9780819575029. Paperback $27.95,...
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“We are all Algerian here”: Music, Community and Citizenship in Algerian London
IntroductionCitizenship, community and national identity have been brought to the fore in public discourse in recent months by the political situations on both sides of the Atlantic. As Islamophobia...
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Highlights from the Ethnomusicology Archive: Musical Aesthetics in Los Angeles
In 1992 and 1993, Professor Steven Loza taught the course Musical Aesthetics in Los Angeles. A number of these classes were recorded and the recordings became part of the Ethnomusicology Archive's...
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Experiencing Detroit and Techno Music: An observational account of Movement...
“Detroit techno” is a musical category and a paradigm my research deals with. As a matter of fact, I was acquainted with Detroit techno mostly while living in Paris (France), where I study. Fans of...
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