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Touching Synchrony: Drag Queens, Skins, and the Touch of the Heroine
IntroductionLip-syncing is one of the drag queen’s most valuable skills. She stands on stage, silently moving her lips to the voice of another, embodying that voice and persona in a performance style...
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Review | The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies
The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies. Edited by Trevor Pinch and Karin Bijsterveld. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. [624 pp., illus. ISBN: 978-01-953-8894-7].Reviewed by Guillaume Heuguet /...
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From Candombe to N2: A Tradition of Uruguayan Music Taking the Street,...
Image courtesy of casaafrouruguaya.orgIn 2005, Jorge Drexler won an Academy Award for best original song, “Al otro lado del río”, the first song in Spanish to do so. There was some controversy...
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Listening in Improvisation
Listening plays a fundamental role in jazz improvisation; but is it necessary for each player to hear all others in a successful improvisation? To better understand the interactions and dynamics of...
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Listening, Hearing, and Improvising in Knoxville, TN: Big Ears Festival 2017
This edition of “Notes from the Field” showcases the incredible number of eclectic musical activities that occurred during the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN, in March of 2017. The ample videos and...
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More Ethnomusicology Archive Recordings Now Online at California Light and Sound
The UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive is pleased to announce that more recordings from the Archive's collections are now available online as part of the California Light and Sound Collection on the Internet...
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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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Touching Synchrony: Drag Queens, Skins, and the Touch of the Heroine
IntroductionLip-syncing is one of the drag queen’s most valuable skills. She stands on stage, silently moving her lips to the voice of another, embodying that voice and persona in a performance style...
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Review | The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies
The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies. Edited by Trevor Pinch and Karin Bijsterveld. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. [624 pp., illus. ISBN: 978-01-953-8894-7].Reviewed by Guillaume Heuguet /...
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From Candombe to N2: A Tradition of Uruguayan Music Taking the Street,...
Image courtesy of casaafrouruguaya.orgIn 2005, Jorge Drexler won an Academy Award for best original song, “Al otro lado del río”, the first song in Spanish to do so. There was some controversy...
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Listening in Improvisation
Listening plays a fundamental role in jazz improvisation; but is it necessary for each player to hear all others in a successful improvisation? To better understand the interactions and dynamics of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Listening, Hearing, and Improvising in Knoxville, TN: Big Ears Festival 2017
This edition of “Notes from the Field” showcases the incredible number of eclectic musical activities that occurred during the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN, in March of 2017. The ample videos and...
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More Ethnomusicology Archive Recordings Now Online at California Light and Sound
The UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive is pleased to announce that more recordings from the Archive's collections are now available online as part of the California Light and Sound Collection on the Internet...
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Sounding Repetition and Change: Loudspeakers and the Folklore Festival of...
IntroductionThe Folklore Festival, or Boi-Bumbá Festival, is an annual celebration that takes place in Parintins, a city located on the Tupinambarana island in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. Every...
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Highlights from the Ethnomusicology Archive: Native California
In 1990 Congress passed Public Law 101-343 which authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation designating the month of November 1990 as "National American Indian Heritage Month."...
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The Unexpected Impacts of a North/South Pacific Rim Cultural Exchange
Making ConnectionsBefore this past August, I hadn’t seen the extended Radford and Te`arama family for almost five years, when I’d driven my family up the Al-Can Highway to Homer, Alaska. Now, seventeen...
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Rocking the Tradition or Traditionalizing Rock? A Music Performance on...
Introduction‘Huayin Laoqiang is the earliest Chinese rock music.’ This is the first phrase that Chinese pop singer Tan Weiwei (b.1981) said when she introduced this traditional opera form in the...
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Nicole Mitchell on Her Projects and Process
Flautist and composer Nicole Mitchell, internationally lauded artist and former president of the AACM, discusses her prolific work and what's to come in 2018. Molly Jones: Where have you been playing...
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