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SOAS Studies in Music


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SOAS Studies in Music is today one of the world’s leading series in the discipline of ethnomusicology. Our core mission is to produce high-quality, ethnographically rich studies of music-making in the world’s diverse musical cultures. We publish monographs and edited volumes that explore musical repertories and performance practice, critical issues in ethnomusicology, sound studies, historical and analytical approaches to music across the globe. We recognize the value of applied, interdisciplinary and collaborative research, and our authors draw on current approaches in musicology and anthropology, psychology, media and gender studies. We welcome monographs that investigate global contemporary, classical and popular musics, the effects of digital mediation and transnational flows.

 

Editorial Board

Professor Kwasi Ampene

University of Michigan, USA

Professor Linda Barwick

University of Sydney, AU

Dr. Angela Impey

SOAS University of London, UK

Professor Travis A. Jackson

University of Chicago, USA

Professor Noriko Manabe

Temple University, USA

Dr. Moshe Morad

Tel Aviv University, IL

Professor Suzel Reily

Universidade Estadual de Campinas, BR

Professor Henry Spiller

University California - Davis, USA

Professor Martin Stokes

Kings College London, UK

Professor Richard Widdess

SOAS University of London, UK

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Rhythm, Ancestrality and Spirit in Maracatu de Nação and Candomblé Repercussions

Rhythm, Ancestrality and Spirit in Maracatu de Nação and Candomblé: Repercussions

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Lizzie Ogle
June 11, 2024

Rhythm, Ancestrality and Spirit in Maracatu de Nação and Candomblé: Repercussions examines how the highly percussive carnival practice of Maracatu de nação - an Afro-Brazilian musical and spiritual tradition originating in the north-eastern state of Pernambuco - has evolved in relation to the ...

Archaic Instruments in Modern West Java: Bamboo Murmurs

Archaic Instruments in Modern West Java: Bamboo Murmurs

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Henry Spiller
May 27, 2024

Archaic Instruments in Modern West Java: Bamboo Murmurs explores how current residents of Bandung, Indonesia, have (re-)adopted bamboo musical instruments to forge meaningful bridges between their past and present—between traditional and modern values. Although it focuses specifically on Bandung, ...

The Gift of Song Performing Exchange in Western Arnhem Land

The Gift of Song: Performing Exchange in Western Arnhem Land

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Reuben Brown
May 21, 2024

The Gift of Song: Performing Exchange in Western Arnhem Land tells the story of the return of physical and digital cultural materials through song and dance. Drawing on extensive, first-person ethnographic fieldwork in western Arnhem Land, Australia, the book examines how Bininj/Arrarrkpi (...

Jiuta Sōkyoku Lyrics and Explanations Songs of the Floating World

Jiuta Sōkyoku Lyrics and Explanations: Songs of the Floating World

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Christopher Yohmei Blasdel
May 09, 2024

Jiuta Sōkyoku Lyrics and Explanations is a compendium of seventy-three representative songs from the well-known genre of traditional Japanese Edo-period sankyoku ensemble music. Including extensive annotations along with commentaries and notes on their musical and performative ...

Sonic Ruins of Modernity Judeo-Spanish Folksongs Today

Sonic Ruins of Modernity: Judeo-Spanish Folksongs Today

1st Edition

By Edwin Seroussi
January 29, 2024

Sonic Ruins of Modernity shows how social, cultural and cognitive phenomena interact in the making and distribution of folksongs beyond their time. Through Judeo-Spanish (or Ladino) folksongs, the author illustrates a methodology for the interplay of individual memories, artistic initiatives, ...

The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights

The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights

1st Edition

Edited By Julian Fifer, Angela Impey, Peter G. Kirchschlaeger, Manfred Nowak, George Ulrich
January 29, 2024

The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights is a collection of case studies spanning a wide range of concerns about music and human rights in response to intensifying challenges to the well-being of individuals, peoples, and the planet. It brings forward the expertise of academic researchers,...

The Shared Musical Heritage of Congo and Cuba

The Shared Musical Heritage of Congo and Cuba

1st Edition

By Sara McGuinness
December 31, 2023

There is a longstanding historical and cultural relationship between Congo and Cuba via the slave trade and the ’return’ of Cuban music to Africa, a relationship that has apparently been very scantily documented. It is acknowledged that Congolese roots are present in Cuban music but there is little...

Celtic Music and Dance in Cornwall Cornu-Copia

Celtic Music and Dance in Cornwall: Cornu-Copia

1st Edition

By Lea Hagmann
September 25, 2023

Focusing on the Cornish Music and Dance Revival, this book investigates the revivalists’ claims about Cornwall’s cultural distinctiveness and Celtic heritage, both which are presently used as arguments to promote the English county’s political status as an independent Celtic nation. The author ...

DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US Ethnographic Explorations of Place and Community

DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US: Ethnographic Explorations of Place and Community

1st Edition

By David Verbuč
September 25, 2023

DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US is an interdisciplinary study of house concerts and other types of DIY ("do- it- yourself") music venues and events in the United States, such as warehouses, all- ages clubs, and guerrilla shows, with its primary focus on West Coast American DIY locales. ...

Everyday Musical Life among the Indigenous Bunun, Taiwan

Everyday Musical Life among the Indigenous Bunun, Taiwan

1st Edition

By Jonathan P.J. Stock, Chou Chiener
September 25, 2023

Everyday Musical Life among the Indigenous Bunun, Taiwan contributes to multidisciplinary research on music in everyday human life by pushing beyond the urbanized Western populations routinely featured in such writing. Based on ethnographic study in Buklavu, a village in southern Taiwan mostly ...

Gold, Festivals, and Music in Southeast Brazil Sounding Portugueseness

Gold, Festivals, and Music in Southeast Brazil: Sounding Portugueseness

1st Edition

By Barbara Alge
September 25, 2023

Gold, Festivals, and Music in Southeast Brazil: Sounding Portugueseness is a study of the musical legacy of the eighteenth century Brazilian gold rush that integrates ethnographic research of the main genres of former mining communities in Brazil – from liturgical music in the style of European art...

The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus

The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus

1st Edition

By Dwight Reynolds
September 25, 2023

The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus is a critical account of the history of Andalusian music in Iberia from the Islamic conquest of 711 to the final expulsion of the Moriscos (Spanish Muslims converted to Christianity) in the early 17th century. This volume presents the documentation that has come ...

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