Ethnomusicology Review Volume 18 is now online. This year’s peer-reviewed articles exemplify the geographic and thematic diversity of our field. Marko Aho’s innovative and media-rich article explores the significance and execution of virtuosic gestures in “gypsy swing” jazz. Benjamin Doleac traces rhythmic tropes of New Orleans’ second line music through its incarnations in jazz, funk, and R&B. With sensitive application of both native Hawaiian poetic logic and ethnomusicological theory, Keola Donaghy proposes a novel conceptual framework for interpreting the lyrical mele genre. María Mercedes Liska’s Spanish-language article reexamines the revitalization of Argentine tango music and dance in the 1990s as a cypher for neoliberal values. Justin Patch examines the musical choices and motivations of Austin anti-war movement organizers also includes a timely coda on the musical implications of the recent Occupy movement. We have once again published a number of prize-winning papers from regional Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) chapter conferences. Each of these four essays by Rachel Brashier, Benjamin Fairfield, Max Jack, and Jordan Newman makes its own novel contribution to our field, and together they serve as a review of excellent new scholarship by SEM students. The Volume 18 Sounding Board features over 90 essays including book and album reviews, notes from the field, and clusters on jazz, popular music, historical perspectives, and archiving. We continue to publish timely, media-rich Sounding Board essays at least once a week; please contact us if you are interested in contributing.
Posted on: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 02:55:43 +0000
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