Select Books
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Ethnomusicological Encounters with Music Musicians by This volume explores the originating encounter in field work of ethnomusicologists with the musicians and musical traditions they study. The contributors provide case studies from nearly every corner of the world, including biographies of important musicians from the Philippines, Turkey, Lapland, and Korea; interviews with, and reports of learning from, musicians from Ireland, Bulgaria, Burma, and India; and analyses of how traditional musicians adapt to the encounter with modernity in Japan, India, China, Turkey, Afghanistan, Morocco, and the United States.ISBN: 9781409434023Publication Date: 2011-11-28 -
Handbook for Folklore and Ethnomusicology Fieldwork by Handbook for Folklore and Ethnomusicology Fieldwork offers a comprehensive review of the ethnographic process for developing a project, implementing the plan, and completing and preserving the data collected. Throughout, readers will find a detailed methodology for conducting different types of fieldwork such as digital ethnography or episodic research, tips and tricks for key elements like budgeting and funding, and practical advice and examples gleaned from the authors own fieldwork experiences. This handbook also helps fieldworkers fully grasp and understand the ways in which power, gender, ethnicity, and other identity categories are ever present in fieldwork and guides students to think through these dynamics at each stage of research. Written accessibly for lay researchers working in different mediums and on projects of varying size, this step-by-step manual will prepare the reader for the excitement, challenges, and rewards of ethnographic research.ISBN: 9780253040268Publication Date: 2019-04-05 -
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Sounds from the Other Side by A sixty-year history of Afro-South Asian musical collaborations From Beyoncé's South Asian music-inspired Super Bowl Halftime performance, to jazz artists like John and Alice Coltrane's use of Indian song structures and spirituality in their work, to Jay-Z and Missy Elliott's high-profile collaborations with diasporic South Asian artists such as the Panjabi MC and MIA, African American musicians have frequently engaged South Asian cultural productions in the development of Black music culture. Sounds from the Other Side traces such engagements through an interdisciplinary analysis of the political implications of African American musicians' South Asian influence since the 1960s. Elliott H. Powell asks, what happens when we consider Black musicians' South Asian sonic explorations as distinct from those of their white counterparts? He looks to Black musical genres of jazz, funk, and hip hop and examines the work of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Rick James, OutKast, Timbaland, Beyoncé, and others, showing how Afro-South Asian music in the United States is a dynamic, complex, and contradictory cultural site where comparative racialization, transformative gender and queer politics, and coalition politics intertwine. Powell situates this cultural history within larger global and domestic sociohistorical junctures that link African American and South Asian diasporic communities in the United States. The long historical arc of Afro-South Asian music in Sounds from the Other Side interprets such music-making activities as highly political endeavors, offering an essential conversation about cross-cultural musical exchanges between racially marginalized musicians.ISBN: 9781452964423Publication Date: 2020-11-03
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Journals and Periodicals
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Asian MusicThe journal of the Society for Asian Music is the leading journal devoted to ethnomusicology in Asian music, publishing all aspects of the performing arts of Asia and their cultural context
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EthnomusicologyJournal covering ethnomusicology for musicians, musicologists, folklorists, popular culture scholars, and cultural anthropologists.
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Ethnomusicology ForumFormerly known as the British Journal of Ethnomusicology, this journal is the academic, refereed journal of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology. It provides a dynamic forum for the presentation of new thinking in the field of ethnomusicology, defined broadly as the study of "people making music", and encompasses the study of all music, including Western art music and popular music.
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Ethnomusicology ReviewEstablished as Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology in 1984, Ethnomusicology Review is the graduate student publication of the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology. It is edited by graduate students and refereed by a faculty advisory board. Funding for the journal is provided by GSA Publications at UCLA.
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Global Hip Hop StudiesThis is a "peer-reviewed, rigorous and community-responsive academic journal that publishes research on contemporary as well as historical issues and debates surrounding hip hop music and culture around the world, twice annually."
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Journal of World Popular MusicPublication Date: 2014-Journal of World Popular Music is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes research and scholarship on recent issues and debates surrounding international popular musics, also known as World Music, Global Pop, World Beat or, more recently, World Music 2.0. The journal provides a forum to explore the manifestations and impacts of post-globalizing trends, processes, and dynamics surrounding these musics today. It adopts an open-minded perspective, including in its scope any local popularized musics of the world, commercially available music of non-Western origin, musics of ethnic minorities, and contemporary fusions or collaborations with local ‘traditional’ or ‘roots’ musics with Western pop and rock musics.
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Performing IslamPerforming Islam is the first peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal about Islam and performance and their related aesthetics. It focuses on socio-cultural as well as the historical and political contexts of artistic practices in the Muslim world.
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Radical MusicologyThis peer-reviewed online journal is produced in the International Centre for Music Studies at Newcastle University (UK). It was established to provide a forum for progressive thinking across the whole field of musical studies, and encourages work that draws on any and all relevant disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Databases
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Ethnic NewsWatch (Proquest) This link opens in a new windowInterdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) full text newspapers, magazines and journals of American ethnic, minority and indigenous communities. Offers additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press.
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Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new windowComprises the full text of the second edition edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London, 2001), plus The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition. Plus additional reseources.
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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowRILM Abstracts of Music Literature offers citations and abstracts of articles on international subjects including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments, voice, dance, music therapy.
RILM covers all document types including articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, Festschriften, iconographies, critical commentaries to complete works, ethnographic recordings, conference proceedings, electronic resources, reviews, and more. Covers 1967 - present. -
JSTOR This link opens in a new windowOne of the most trusted sources for scholarly books and historical journal backfiles.
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Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new windowThe Garland Encyclopedia of World Music contains signed referenced entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, making this the most complete body of work focused on world music.
Online Resources
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Music Industries in Africa: Opportunities, Challenges, Interconnections and Potential Challenges. Written by Paula Aciego de Mendoza Sagaseta de Ilurdoz, an NU Music Industry graduate.
Jewish Music
Audio and Video
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American Folklife CenterIncludes collections of Alan Lomax, Robert Winslow Gordon and other significant collections of regional and ethnic music
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Archives of Traditional MusicAudiovisual archive that documents music and culture from all over the world. With over 100,000 recordings that include more than 2,700 field collections, it is one of the largest university-based ethnographic sound archives in the United States.
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Boston College Libraries' Seamus Connolly Collection of Irish MusicCompiled and recorded over the last 15 years, the collection includes traditional tunes and songs, newly composed tunes, musical transcriptions, and historical information.
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Europeana Collections:MusicMusic resources from European archives, including photographs and audio files,
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EVIA Digital Archive ProjectThe EVIA Digital Archive Project is a collaborative endeavor to create a digital archive of ethnographic field video for use by scholars and instructors.
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Internet ArchiveA non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
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JVC Anthology of World Music and DanceThis is the 30-volume video streaming version of the original JVC/Smithsonian Folkways DVD series, "Video Anthology of Music and Dance of the World."
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Music Online: Popular Music LibraryPopular music from around the world, including alternative, country, Christian, electronic, gospel, hip-hop, metal, punk, new age, R&B, reggae, rock.
Reports
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Global Perspectives: The IMC Report on Forces Affecting Music SustainabilityA Jstor article:
The World of Music
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IFPI Global Music Report 2019 2nd April 2019A summary from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (ifpi). Report is available for purchase.
Organizations
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Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM)SEM is a U.S.-based organization with an international membership of over 1800 individuals dedicated to the study of all forms of music from diverse humanistic and social scientific perspectives.
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British Forum for EthnomusicologyThe Forum's aim is to advance the study, practice, documentation, preservation and dissemination of traditional music and dance of all countries.
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International Music CouncilFounded in 1949 by UNESCO, IMC is the world's largest network of organizations and institutions working in the field of music. It promotes access to music for all and the value of music in the lives of all peoples.