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The question is: How do I render sound visible? For me, the answer is ethnopoetics, a mode of presenting performance, ritual, and cultural expression through the tools of poetry. In [...]

ABSTRACT: From its first appearance more than a hundred years ago, musical nationalism in Ecuadorean art music has developed in response to diverse influences and factors. At times, these expressions [...]

ABSTRACT: Current academic interpretations of the process of transformation within tango music and dance during the first two decades of the twentieth century focus on the consolidation of a canon [...]

Contents The Same, but Different: Sexuality and 825 Musicology, Then and Now JUDITH. A. PERAINO Calling Names, Taking Names 831 MITCHELL MORRIS Compromising Positions 835 LLOYD WHITESELL Pleasure's Discontents 840 [...]

Music making takes on multiple roles in human lives. Some of these functions include integral components of rituals, such as marches to accompany processionals or reflective songs to highlight emotional [...]

The examination of music in prison has a long history in American music scholarship. (1) Yet, there has been very little written on the subject of women's prison music. This [...]

Introduction DANA GOOLEY Over the past two decades scholars working on music in the nineteenth century have intensively scrutinized music and nationalism, producing a highly differentiated understanding of its history, [...]

Twice in the 1940s, the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) banned recording by its members. According to the union, the use of records on radio and in jukeboxes was replacing five performers, thus eliminating work for musicians. In an era of shifting federal policies and changing modalities of labor, the bans put sound at the center of a struggle between labor and corporate interests. The bans provide a case through which to explore the significance and multidimensionality of music as labor. As a case that is integral to, yet distinct from, histories of audio technology and intellectual property, the bans are an important yet overlooked moment in the formation of current configurations of sonic value. [Keywords: Music, labor, audio technology, radio, liberalism, United States] [Palavras chave: Musica, trabalho, tecnologia audio, radio, liberalismo, Estados Unidos da America], In the 1940s, the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) organized two recording bans, during which no recordings were made by union musicians on major record labels. The bans occurred at [...]

PHONOGRAPHS AND GRAMOPHONES brought with them remarkable changes. As fidelity increased, music recorded on discs changed from a single performance that was overheard and 'captured,' becoming a document that could [...]

Dedication (1) To the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public at large, who have witnessed my talents, and raised me from obscurity to the proud eminence on which I now stand, [...]