Ethnomusicology

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Transformismo

Performing Trans/Queer Cuba

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

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

How song shaped American Zionism

Transforming Vòdún

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

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

Listening with a Feminist Ear

Soundwork in Bombay Cinema

On the cultural politics and possibilities of sound in cinema

Echoes of the Great Catastrophe

Re-Sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora

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

Sounding Dissent

Rebel Songs, Resistance, and Irish Republicanism

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

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

The first scholarly examination of underground music in the digital age

Jazz and Machine-Age Imperialism

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

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

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

Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World

Rituals and Remembrances

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

Natural Acts

Gender, Race, and Rusticity in Country Music

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