Sounding Ethnicity

Contents:

+++ Articles
* Lonán Ó Briain: Introduction: Sounding and Silencing Ethnicity in the 21st Century
* Martin Stokes: Musical Ethnicity: Affective, Material and Vocal Turns
* Rachel Harris: The New Battleground: Song-and-dance in China’s Muslim Borderlands
* Lijuan Qian: Which Identity Matters? Competing Ethnicities in Chinese TV Music Contests
* Thomas Solomon: Who Are the Laz? Cultural Identity and the Musical Public Sphere on the Turkish Black Sea Coast
* Nomi Dave: Music, Multipartyism and the “Guinean Family”


+++ Book Reviews (Eva-Maria Alexandra van Straaten, ed.)
* Peter Kvetko: Jayson Beaster-Jones, Music Commodities, Markets, and Values: Music as Merchandise (2016)
* Barbara Alge: Javier F. León and Helena Simonett (eds.), A Latin American Music Reader. Views from the South (2016)
* Tony Perman Jennifer Kyker, Oliver Mtukudzi: Living Tuku Music in Zimbabwe (2016)
* Kacey Link: Morgan James Luker, The Tango Machine: Musical Culture in the Age of Expediency (2016)
* Yair Hashachar: Moshe Morad, Fiesta de Diez Pesos: Music and Gay Identity in Special Period Cuba (2014)
* Stephen Wilford: Regine Allgayer-Kaufmann (ed.), World Music Studies (2016)
* Aaron S. Allen: Mark Pedelty, A Song to Save the Salish Sea: Musical Performance as Environmental Activism
(2016)
* Inna Naroditskaya: Aida Huseynova, Music of Azerbaijan: From Mugham to Opera (2016)
* Leah Kardos: Mark J. Butler, Playing with Something That Runs: Technology, Improvisation, and Composition in DJ
and Laptop Performance (2014)
* Allan F. Moore: Per Elias Drabløs, The Quest for the Melodic Electric Bass: from Jamerson to Spenner (2015)
* Niko Higgins: Nina Sun Eidsheim, Sensing Sound: Singing & Listening as Vibrational Practice (2015)


+++ Recording Reviews (Rehanna L. Kheshgi, ed.)
* Alisha Lola Jones: Fannie Lou Hamer: Songs My Mother Taught Me. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. (2015)
* Alexander Marković: Playing ’Til Your Soul Comes Out: Music of Macedonia. Produced by Martin Koenig, recorded by David Jones. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. (2015)
* Lauren Eldridge: Lakou Mizik. Wa Di Yo (You Tell Them). Stewart Cumbancha. (2016)


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