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Through the Lens of a Baroque Opera: Gender/Sexuality Then and Now
William Faulkner once famously wrote, "The past is never dead. It's not even past" (1950:73). This idea that the past is always present is at the heart of this paper. Nothing is created in a vacuum,...
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Review | Revival and Reconciliation: Sacred Music in the Making of European...
Revival and Reconciliation: Sacred Music in the Making of European Modernity. By Philip V. Bohlman. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2013. [xxxiv, 285 p. ISBN 9780810881839. $85.] Music examples,...
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Preview | Theory and Method in Historical Ethnomusicology by Jonathan...
The Ethnomusicology Review Sounding Board is pleased to offer an overview from Jonathan McCollum and David G. Hebert of their forthcoming edited volume Theory and Method in Historical Ethnomusicology...
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The Role of Interpretation in Determining Continuity in Danza Azteca History
Danza Azteca includes a diverse and amalgamated repertoire––a pastiche of various indigenous music and dance traditions subsumed under the umbrella of danza. As a result of the diversity contained in...
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Review | Wandering Stars: Songs from Gimpel’s Lemberg Yiddish Theatre, 1906-1910
Wandering Stars: Songs from Gimpel’s Lemberg Yiddish Theatre, 1906-1910. Renair Records 2013. Compiled by Julian Futter and Michael Aytward. One compact disc (25 tracks) with liner notes (40...
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Historical Narratives of the Akonting and Banjo
I travelled to The Gambia in the summer of 2012 to learn to play a stringed instrument called akonting, not knowing then that it would spark my current dissertation research. Played by musicians of the...
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Doing it Backwards: My Unexpected Goldberg Variations (Part I)
As I look back over the last ten years, and the peculiar journey with J.S. Bach that the time represents for me, it’s sometimes hard to believe that I’m here, now, playing the Goldberg Variations in...
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Doing it Backwards: My Unexpected Goldberg Variations (Part II)
Editor's Note: Part I of this piece can be read here.To make a long story short, I recorded what eventually became Goldberg Variations / Variations three times. Once as I’d been performing it, with...
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Review | Flower World: Music Archaeology of the Americas, Volume 2
Flower World: Music Archaeology of the Americas, Volume 2. Edited by Matthias Stöckli and Arnd Adje Both. Berlin: Ekho Verlag. 2013. [198 p., Individual €59; Institutional €92.] illustrations,...
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Review | Hidden in the Mix: The African American Presence in Country Music,...
Hidden in the Mix: The African American Presence in Country Music. Edited by Diane Pecknold. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. [392 p. ISBN 9780822351634. $27.95.] Illustrations, index,...
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Colonial Celts and Christmas Carols: Cornish Music and Identity in South...
Cornwall, at the far south west of the United Kingdom, is simultaneously a county of England, a royal Duchy, and Celtic nation, and as such its culture and heritage bears witness to a long history of...
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The Word Jazz in the Jazz World
In December 1917, U.S. Merchant Marine Truman Blair Cook wrote a diary entry describing his crew’s arrival in Arica, Chile—a small mining town near the country’s northern border. The following is...
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Towards a Global History of Music? Postcolonial Studies and Historical...
Recent discussions in historical musicology suggest that there is a growing interest in the relationship between Western music and the position of Europe in world history. This incipient “global turn,”...
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The Place of Race in Jazz Discourse: Storyville, Boston
Issues of space and place pervade jazz historical narratives, especially when considering conventional “up the river” histories. According to such accounts, jazz began in New Orleans (presumably a...
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Thinking Historically, Being Present: Kuwait, Summer 2016
Introduction: 129° FMany of my friends an colleagues in Kuwait were shocked that I came during a time of world record high temperatures to study music during the past summer. Temperatures reached a...
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Call for Contributions: Ethnomusicology Review's “Historical Perspectives” Blog
History is not a universal narrative of one tradition, one person, one people, or one nation; rather, it is the sum of all possible histories that may illuminate a present moment or place. To conduct...
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Doing it Backwards: My Unexpected Goldberg Variations (Part II)
Editor's Note: Part I of this piece can be read here.To make a long story short, I recorded what eventually became Goldberg Variations / Variations three times. Once as I’d been performing it, with...
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Review | Flower World: Music Archaeology of the Americas, Volume 2
Flower World: Music Archaeology of the Americas, Volume 2. Edited by Matthias Stöckli and Arnd Adje Both. Berlin: Ekho Verlag. 2013. [198 p., Individual €59; Institutional €92.] illustrations,...
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Review | Hidden in the Mix: The African American Presence in Country Music,...
Hidden in the Mix: The African American Presence in Country Music. Edited by Diane Pecknold. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. [392 p. ISBN 9780822351634. $27.95.] Illustrations, index,...
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Colonial Celts and Christmas Carols: Cornish Music and Identity in South...
Cornwall, at the far south west of the United Kingdom, is simultaneously a county of England, a royal Duchy, and Celtic nation, and as such its culture and heritage bears witness to a long history of...
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