Danzón Days
Age, Race, and Romance in Mexico
Hettie Malcomson
Older people negotiating dance routines and racialized differences provide a focal point for an ethnography of danzón in Veracruz, the Mexican city closely associated with the music. Malcomson draws upon on-site research with musicians and amateur dancers to reveal how danzón connects, and does not connect, to blackness, joyousness, and romance.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Music in American Life
May 2023 312pp 8 b&w photos, 15 music examples, 4 tables
9780252087134
£25.99 PB now £18.19
Flamenco Music
History, Forms, Culture
Peter Manuel
Peter Manuel offers Englishlanguage readers a rare portrait of the music’s history, styles, and cultural impact. Beginning with flamenco’s Moorish and Roma influences, Manuel follows the music’s evolution through its consolidation in the mid1800s and on to the vibrant contemporary scene.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
November 2023 352pp 8 b&w photos, 1 chart, 38 music examples
9780252087455 £29.99 PB now £20.99
Drones, Tones, and Timbres
Sounding Place among Nomads of the Inner Asian Mountain-Steppes
Carole Pegg
Based on more than twenty years of research, Pegg’s participatory ethnography explores how Indigenous nomadic peoples of Russia’s southern Siberian republics (Altai, Khakassia, Tyva) sound multiphonies of place in a post-Soviet global world. Pegg demonstrates, is essential to the identities, ways of life, and very senses of being of Indigenous Altai-Sayan peoples.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
January 2024 344pp 30 b&w photos, 1 chart, 4 tables
9780252045455 £76.00 HB now £53.20
Music and the Making of Portugal and Spain
Nationalism and Identity Politics in the Iberian Peninsula
Edited by Matthew MachinAutenrieth, Salwa El-Shawan
Castelo-Branco & Samuel Llano
How music embodies and contributes to historical and contemporary nationalism. What does music in Portugal and Spain reveal about l identity building? In this collection, the role played by the state in deciding what music represents Portuguese or Spanish identity is explored.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
9780252087448 £27.99 PB now £19.59
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At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice
Edited by Brenda M. Romero, Susan M. Asai, David A. McDonald, Andrew G. Snyder & Katelyn E. BestStudies the meaning of music within a community to investigate the intersections of sound and race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and differing abilities. Ethnographic work from a range of theoretical frameworks uncovers and analyzes the successes and limitations of music's efficacies in resolving conflicts, easing tensions, reconciling groups, promoting unity, and healing communities.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Activist Encounters in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
February 2023 322pp 16 b&w illus.
9780253064776 £31.00 PB now £21.70
Babaylan Sing Back
Philippine Shamans and Voice, Gender, and Place
Grace Nono
Drawing on fieldwork in the Philippines, Grace Nono's deep engagement with the song and speech of a number of living ritual specialists demonstrates Native historical agency in the 500th year anniversary of the contact between the people of the Philippine Islands and the European colonizers.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
November 2021 252pp 10 b&w halftones, 4 maps
9781501760099 £22.99 PB now £16.09
Composing Aid
Music, Refugees, and Humanitarian Politics
Oliver Y. Shao
Offering a provocative contribution to ethnomusicological methods through its focus on activist research, Composing Aid elucidates the powerful role of music and the arts in reproducing, contesting, and reimagining the existing migratory order.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Activist Encounters in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
August 2023 216pp
9780253067654 £25.99 PB now £18.19
Dhol
Drummers, Identities, and Modern Punjab
Gibb Schreffler
The dhol drum is an icon of global Punjabi culture. Yet the identities of dhol players within their local communities and the broadly conceived Punjabi nation remain obscure. Based on two decades of research, Dhol reveals a beloved instrumental form and the musical and social practices of its overlooked performers.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
December 2021 274pp 19 b&w photos, 1 map, 19 music examples
9780252086120 £23.99 PB now £16.79
Flaco’s Legacy
The Globalization of Conjunto
Erin E. BauerA combination of button accordion and bajo sexto, conjunto originated in the Texas-Mexico borderlands as a popular dance music and became a powerful form of regional identity. Bauer follows conjunto from its local origins through three processes of globalization-migration via media, hybridization, and appropriation--that boosted the music’s reach.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Music in American Life
May 2023 296pp 8 b&w photos, 10 music examples, 15 tables
9780252087158 £25.99 PB now £18.19
Making Value
Music, Capital, and the Social
Timothy D.
TaylorIn Making Value, Taylor examines how people’s conceptions of value inform and shape their production and consumption of music. Drawing on anthropological value theory, Taylor theorizes music’s economic and noneconomic forms of value both ethnographically and historically.
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOKS
April 2024 240pp 2 illus.
9781478030355 £22.99 PB now £16.09
Mario Barradas and Son Jarocho
The Journey of a Mexican Regional Music
Yolanda Broyles-González
Traces a musical journey from the Gulf Coast to interior Mexico and across the border, describing the transformations of Son Jarocho along the way. This book examines the interplay between Son Jarocho’s indigenous roots and contemporary role in Mexican and US society. The result is a nuanced portrait of a vital and evolving musical tradition.
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
July 2022 208pp
9781477325568 £25.99 PB now £18.19
Mongolian Sound Worlds
Edited by Jennifer C. Post, Sunmin Yoon & Charlotte D'EvelynMusic cultures today emerge from centuries-old pastoralist practices that were reshaped by political movements in the twentieth century. This book investigates the unique sonic elements, social and spatial performativity, and sounding objects behind new forms of Mongolian music--forms that reflect the nation's past while looking towards its globalized future.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
April 2022 310pp 46 b&w photos, 2 maps
9780252086441 £25.99 PB now £18.19
Music of the First Nations
Tradition and Innovation in Native North America
Edited by Tara BrownerThis unique anthology presents a wide variety of approaches to an ethnomusicology of Inuit and Native North American musical expression. Contributors include Native and nonNative scholars who provide illuminating perspectives on aboriginal culture, incorporating both traditional practices and contemporary musical influences.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Music in American Life
July 2022 184pp 2 b&w photos, 6 line drawings, 2 maps
9780252087004 £21.99 PB now £15.39
Queer Country
Shana Goldin-Perschbacher
Though frequently ignored by the music mainstream, queer and transgender country and Americana artists have made essential contributions as musicians, performers, songwriters, and producers. Queer Country blends ethnographic research with analysis and history to provide the first in-depth study of these artists and their work.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Music in American Life
March 2022 288pp 41 b&w photos
9780252086335 £21.99 PB now £15.39
Radiation Sounds
Marshallese Music and Nuclear Silences
Jessica A. Schwartz
Jessica A. Schwartz examines the seventy-five years of Marshallese music developed in response to the United States’ nuclear weapons testing on their homeland, showing how Marshallese singing practices make heard the harmful effects of US nuclear violence.
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOKS
November 2021 312pp 21 illus.
9781478014614 £24.99 PB now £17.49
Social Voices
The Cultural Politics of Singers around the Globe
Edited by Levi S. Gibbs
Introduction by Levi S. Gibbs
Levi S. Gibbs edits a collection built around the idea of listening as a political act that produces meaning. Contributors explore a wide range of issues by examining artists like Romani icon Esma Redžepova, Indian legend Lata Mangeshkar, and pop superstar Teresa Teng. Cutting-edge and original, Social Voices reveals how singers and their songs equip us to process social change and divergent opinions.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
September 2023 272pp 8 b&w photos
9780252087387 £25.99 PB now £18.19
Soundscapes of Liberation
African American Music in Postwar France
Celeste Day Moore
Celeste Day Moore traces the popularity of African American music in postwar France to outline how it came to signify both state power and liberation for Francophone audiences throughout the world.
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOKS
Refiguring American Music
October 2021 312pp 40 illus.
9781478014690 £24.99 PB now £17.49
The Aesop's Fable Paradigm
An Unlikely Intersection of Folklore and Science
Edited by K. Brandon Barker & Daniel J. PovinelliThe Aesop's Fable Paradigm is a collection of essays that explore the cutting-edge intersection of Folklore and Science. From moralizing fables to fantastic folktales, humans have been telling stories about animals—animals who can talk, feel, think, and make moral judgments just as we do—for a very long time.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
December 2021 258pp
9780253059222 £36.00 PB now £25.20
The Complexities of Race
Identity, Power, and Justice in an Evolving America
Edited by Charmaine L. WijeyesingheRecent shifts in demographics, policy, culture and thinking have changed how race is understood today. This volume provides detailed snapshots of the diverse and complicated ways that race, racism, racial identity, and racial justice are represented, experienced, and addressed in America, offering fresh insight into the complex dynamics of power.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
December 2021 304pp
9781479801411 £25.99 PB now £18.19
The Costs of the Gig Economy
Musical Entrepreneurs and the Cultural Politics of Inequality in Northeastern Brazil
Falina Enriquez
Institutions in Recife, Brazil, have restructured subsidies in favor of encouraging musicians to become more entrepreneurial. Falina Enriquez explores how contemporary and traditional musicians in the fabled musical city have negotiated these intensified neoliberal cultural policies and economic uncertainties.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
September 2022 280pp 11 b&w photos
9780252086687 £25.99 PB now £18.19
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Visualizing Music
Eric Isaacson
Explores the art of communicating about music through images. Together with an extensive online supplement and dozens of redrawings that show the impact of effective techniques, Visualizing Music is a captivating guide to thinking differently about design that will help music scholars better understand the power of musical images, thereby shifting the ephemeral to material.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Musical Meaning and Interpretation
May 2023 386pp 14 color illus., 295 b&w illus., 1 b&w table
9780253064738 £25.99 PB now £18.19
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Music and Gender
Pirkko Moisala & Beverley Diamond
Through the experiences of performers, composers, and ethnomusicologists working in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and North America, Music and Gender explores how the uses and descriptions of music shift in response to rapid political, economic, or technological change.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
June 2000 392pp
9780252068652 £29.99 PB now £20.99