Search Results - "Ethnomusicology"

Masculinity, Violence, and Deindividuation in Argentine Soccer Chants: The Sonic Potentials of Participatory Sounding-in-Synchrony by Herrera, Eduardo

“…Through an ethnographic study of Argentine soccer fans, this article explores the potentials of participatory moving-and-sounding-in-synchrony to construct a…”
Get full text

Environmental Crisis, Culture Loss, and a New Musical Aesthetic: China’s “Original Ecology Folksongs” In Theory and Practice by Rees, Helen

“…Since the early twenty- first century, a craze for “original ecology folksongs” has overtaken China. Performed by village- born singers in local dialect and…”
Get full text

Grooving Heavy, Dancing Drunk: Gustemic Metaphor and Mimetic Polytemporality in Anatolian Greek Music by League, Panayotis

“…In the Anatolian Greek diaspora, discourse about the formation and expression of personhood through traditional music and dance is saturated with references to…”
Get full text

Martyrdom and Mapuche Metal: Defying Cultural and Territorial Reductions in Twenty-First-Century Wallmapu by Rekedal, Jacob

“…Seventeen-year-old Alex Lemún was shot in 2002 while retaking ancestral lands for his people, the Mapuche, on the western side of the Andes in the Southern…”
Get full text

Call and Response: SEM President’s Roundtable 2016, “Ethnomusicological Responses to the Contemporary Dynamics of Migrants and Refugees” by Rasmussen, Anne K., Impey, Angela, Willson, Rachel Beckles, Aksoy, Ozan, Gill, Denise, Frishkopf, Michael

“…Rasmussen et all discuss the Society of Ethnomusicology (SEM) President's Roundtable 2016 entitled "Ethnomusicological Responses to the Contemporary Dynamics…”
Get full text

One or Several Gamelan? Perpetual (Re)construction in the Life of a Balinese Gamelan Semara Pagulingan by Yamin, Tyler

“…After a century of modification, the gamelan semara pagulingan of Kamasan village, Bali, scarcely resembles its original form, and many of its discarded…”
Get full text

Listening, Muhabbet, and the Practice of Masculinity by Gill, Denise

“…This article extends debates interrogating the sonic and affective intricacies of how muhabbet—intimate social practices in which individuals gather to make…”
Get full text

Atmosphere as a Concept for Ethnomusicology: Comparing the Gamelatron and Gamelan by McGraw, Andrew

“…In this article I compare a robotic gamelan sound installation (the gamelatron) and traditional gamelan, as performed in the American gamelan subculture, in…”
Get full text

Captains and Priestesses in Afro-Brazilian Congado and Candomblé by Dempsey, Genevieve E. V.

“…Afro-Brazilian communities that practice the religious traditions of Congado and Candomblé consider not only the significance of the sacred in their lives but…”
Get full text

Prefiguring as an Indigenous Narrative Tool in Nigerian Cinema: An Ethnomusicological Reading by Sylvanus, Emaeyak Peter

“…Prefiguring entails the use of music to predict dialogue and scenes in film. It is prevalent in the cinematic productions of both the ethnic-based film…”
Get full text

The Music Box: Songs of Futility in a Time of Torture by Friedson, Steven M.

“…Two musical moments on the edge: At a black site in Thailand, Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee in the “Global War on Terror,” is placed inside a…”
Get full text

A Street for All? Pluralism and the Performing Arts in Jalan Sesama (Indonesian Sesame Street) by Clendinning, Elizabeth

“…This article examines traditional Indonesian performing arts scenes used in the Indonesian television program Jalan Sesama (the local version of American…”
Get full text

Social Synchrony and Tuning Out: Karen Participation in Music, Tradition, and Ethnicity in Northern Thailand by Fairfield, Benjamin

“…Participatory genres of music have been recognized as spaces in which ethnic group identity is not just imaginable but also felt, seen, heard, and embodied…”
Get full text

Bilingual Hip Hop from Community to Classroom and Back: A Study in Decolonial Applied Ethnomusicology by Przybylski, Liz

“…Education research often examines popular music as a tool for achieving classroom learning outcomes. Approaching pedagogical uses of music through applied…”
Get full text

“Like a Cry from the Heart”: An Insider’s View of the Genesis of Alan Lomax’s Ideas and the Legacy of His Research: Part II by Wood, Anna L. C.

“…Part 1 of this article explored the development of Alan Lomax’s theory of expressive style and culture in terms of his family background, temperament, cultural…”
Get full text

“Summoning Breadfruit” and “Opening Seas”: Toward a Performative Ecology in Oceania by Diettrich, Brian

“…This article explores the implications of a performative ecology in Oceania by examining musical practices of “summoning breadfruit” and “opening seas”…”
Get full text

GambirsawitUpacara Pengantin by Roberts, Jonathan

Get full text

Voice, Age, and Islamic Practice in the Life of the Indonesian Keroncong Vocalist Waldjinah by Skelchy, Russell P.

“…This article examines Waldjinah, Indonesia’s most renowned keroncong vocalist, as a cultural symbol of “Indonesianness.” I explore how changes in her spiritual…”
Get full text

“El bombo loco”: Sounding Alterity and Populism in Buenos Aires by O’Brien, Michael S.

“…The bombo con platillo, a double-headed bass drum with a mounted cymbal, is a potent icon of murga porteña, a genre of Carnival art from Buenos Aires,…”
Get full text

Music Man Murray by Gubner, Jennie

Get full text