Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth takes the p. 99 test
Opening to page 99 of Finding the Singing Spruce: Craft Labor, Global Forests, and Musical Instrument Makers in Appalachia, you’ll find my reflections on choosing apprenticeship as the ethnographic…
Tag: music
When Coronavirus Emptied the Streets, Music Filled It
Sardinia is celebrated for its traditional a cappella music and its murals, like this one in the town of Orgosolo that honors pacifist musician Fabrizio De André. Simona…
Michelle Williams takes the page 99 test
One half of page 99 of my doctoral thesis is a photo, taken at eye level of a group of Tongan students sitting cross-legged on the ground of…
Tipu’s Tiger should be Tipu’s – ship it back to the Bagh.
We should ask V&A head honcho Tristram Hunt if he plans to hand any of the booty back. The famous sepoy being eaten by a tiger should…
#Review: Punk and Revolution
In Punk and revolution: Seven more interpretations of Peruvian reality, Shane Greene locates the distinctive elements of Peruvian punk in the context of the political and urban environment…
Digging Up Woodstock
The 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair left behind garbage and other materials that can be traced by archaeologists. Bettmann /Getty Images On a cloudy morning in October 2017,…
The Deep Roots of Navajo Country Music
[no-caption] Marcel Hirshegger/SAPIENS What is it about certain musical traditions that cause them to take root in communities far away from where they originated? Anthropologist Kristina…
David Flood takes the page 99 test
My dissertation examines everyday interactions between two groups of white people in the US who to all appearances should get along but don’t, despite their sustained efforts towards…
Sonido, Música y Ciudad: Una Investigación sobre el ruido en Mérida, Yucatán
El problema y el proyecto En 2017, mientras yo conducía un curso sobre sonido y cultura, se recrudeció la controversia alrededor del ruido en la ciudad de Mérida,…
Rapping in Sakha
In Yakutsk, hip hop can be poetic, nostalgic, and even subversive. What can this inventive genre say about language relocalization and maintenance? A crowd gathers at Muus Khaia…
Why Navajos Love Their Country Music
Native Country Band at Windy Mesa Bar in Page, Arizona. Left to right: Errison Littleben, author Kristina Jacobsen, Tommy Bia, LeAnder Bia, Arlondo Bia. Doug Reilly When I…
Love and the Pursuit of Home after War
Among Acholis, ideals of home and a good life are resilient even if everyday realities increasingly diverge from such aspirations. There is a tendency to think about love…
Changing Its Tune
Back in 2012 I blogged about MidEast Tunes (mideasttunes.com) one of the largest Arabic music sites in the world. I just updated my old post to fix the…
Kristina Jacobsen on her new book, The Sound of Navajo Country
https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469631868/the-sound-of-navajo-country/?title_id=3849 Morgan Siewert: On its face, your project to analyze expressive culture among Navajo country music artists using…
Inhabiting Public Space: Guerrilla Music on YouTube
Este contenido está disponible en español aquí. *Many of the names and places mentioned below have been changed.* While the FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia or Revolutionary…
Suk-Young Kim on her new book, K-Pop Live
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29375 Interview by Chuyun Oh Chuyun Oh: What were some of the questions you want to explore when you first decided to write a book on K-pop, and…
Kiwi, the imaginary ethnographer
this is, you know, pretty great. Please visit the show on the theme of Imaginary Ethnography in Experimental Music and Sound on the web space of Jeu de Paume: Fourth Worlds…
反对声音自然主义 | Against Sonic Naturalism
At the end of last year, I had the privilege to be part of the best academic conference ever – full spoilers, it’s called Tuning Speculation, it’s broadly…
Critique of Marxist Musicology (lack in the Blak, Politics in the Lyrics, ears in the fears, bound to sound…)
Just catching up with critical appreciations. This: jazeel2005
Alex E. Chávez on his new book, Sounds of Crossing
https://www.dukeupress.edu/sounds-of-crossing Interview by William Cotter William Cotter: In the introduction to your book you mention that for Mexican migrants, transnational forms of music making c…
East Side Orchestras: Music and Social Change
I am currently working on a research project that looks at the social impacts of Arohanui Strings, Porirua Soundscapes, and Virtuoso Strings. These groups provide free, Sistema-inspired orchestral mus…