Ethnomusicology

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A Beautiful Fight

The Racial Politics of Capoeira in Backland Bahia

By Esther Viola Kurtz
Subjects: Dance, Music, Ethnomusicology, African American Studies, Latin American Studies, Race and Ethnicity
Series: Music and Social Justice

A critical ethnography of Black and white participation in Afro-Brazilian music and dance

Transformismo

Performing Trans/Queer Cuba

By M. Myrta Leslie Santana
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, Theater and Performance, Latinx Studies, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, American Studies

How drag performance transforms the social landscape of Cuba and illuminates the island’s racial, sexual, and economic inequalities

Teaching Difficult Topics

Reflections from the Undergraduate Music Classroom

Edited by Olivia R. Lucas & Laura Moore Pruett
Subjects: Music, Musicology, Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, American Studies, African American Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Reflections from college music instructors offering various approaches to inclusive, supportive pedagogy in the classroom

Singing the Land

Hebrew Music and Early Zionism in America

By Eli Sperling
Subjects: Foreign Language, Modern Hebrew, Jewish Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Music, Ethnomusicology, Diaspora Studies

How song shaped American Zionism

Transforming Vòdún

Musical Change and Postcolonial Healing in Benin's Jazz and Brass Band Music

By Sarah Politz
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, African Studies
Series: Musics in Motion

How musicians from the West African Republic of Benin transform Benin’s cultural traditions

Listening with a Feminist Ear

Soundwork in Bombay Cinema

By Pavitra Sundar
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Women's Studies

On the cultural politics and possibilities of sound in cinema

Echoes of the Great Catastrophe

Re-Sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora

By Panayotis League
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, Diaspora Studies
Series: Musics in Motion

A multi-sited exploration of the musical legacy of the Anatolian Greek diaspora

Sounding Dissent

Rebel Songs, Resistance, and Irish Republicanism

By Stephen Millar
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, Irish Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

In Belfast’s rebel music scene, Irish republican musicians and audiences engage in ritualized resistance against the British state

The Jazz Republic

Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany

By Jonathan O. Wipplinger
Subjects: German Studies, Music, Jazz, Ethnomusicology, History, German History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Reveals the wide-ranging influence of American jazz on German discussions of music, race, and culture in the early twentieth century

Sounds of the Underground

A Cultural, Political and Aesthetic Mapping of Underground and Fringe Music

By Stephen Graham
Subjects: Music, Cultural Studies, Ethnomusicology
Series: Tracking Pop

The first scholarly examination of underground music in the digital age

Jazz and Machine-Age Imperialism

Music, "Race," and Intellectuals in France, 1918-1945

By Jeremy F. Lane
Subjects: Music, Jazz, Ethnomusicology, History, European History
Series: Jazz Perspectives

A groundbreaking study of the reception of jazz among French-speaking black intellectuals between 1918 and 1945

Powerful Voices

The Musical and Social World of Collegiate A Cappella

By Joshua S Duchan
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Music, Ethnomusicology, Education, Higher Education
Series: Tracking Pop

The first scholarly account of the music and culture of collegiate a cappella

Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World

Rituals and Remembrances

Edited by Ifeoma C.K. Nwankwo & Mamadou Diouf
Subjects: African American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture, Music, Ethnomusicology, African Studies

Collected essays exploring the origins and evolution of music and dance in Afro-Atlantic culture

Natural Acts

Gender, Race, and Rusticity in Country Music

By Pamela Fox
Subjects: American Studies, Music, Ethnomusicology, Class Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature
Series: Class : Culture

Hillbilly, honky-tonk, Nashville glitz, or alt.country: what makes music authentically country?

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