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The Wind Is Always Blowing: Generative Crosscurrents of Ethnographic Dialogue in Australia

open access: yesOceania, Volume 94, Issue 1, Page 3-17, March 2024.
ABSTRACT Live conversations and writing play an important role in ethnographic research that seeks to develop understanding across cultural differences. Both forms of communication need not remain distinct: written dialogue can develop critical thought while foregrounding the shared contexts and relational impetuses of communication across cultures ...
Samuel Curkpatrick, Daniel Wilfred
wiley   +1 more source

“The khomus is my red deer on which I fly through the middle world” (Khomus in the shamanic practice of Tuva: Research issues)

open access: yesNovye Issledovaniâ Tuvy, 2017
The author first got acquainted with Tuvan music in 1991, at the 2nd International Congress of Jew’s Harp Music in Yakutia, Russia. Among other ethnomusical bands from Russia’s various regions and CIS states, the Tuvan band stood out with its special ...
Leo Tadagawa
doaj   +1 more source

African musics in context: institutions, culture, identity/Ethnomusicology in East Africa: perspectives from Uganda and beyond [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
BOOK REVIEW African musics in context: institutions, culture, identity, edited by Thomas Solomon, Kampala, Uganda, Fountain Publishers, 2015, xxvi + 365 pp., £28.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-9-970-25245-9 Ethnomusicology in East Africa: perspectives from ...
Andrew Eisenberg
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Psychedelia: The interplay of music and psychedelics

open access: yesAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1531, Issue 1, Page 12-28, January 2024.
Music and psychedelics have a long history of use across cultures. We explore varied perspectives on the interplay between psychedelics and music, their potential neurological and neurocomputational overlaps, their use in ancient rituals and modern clinical settings, as well as the capacity for music to lead to altered states of consciousness in the ...
Katarina Jerotic   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contemporary urban folk music in the Balkans: Possibilities for regional music history [PDF]

open access: yesMuzikologija, 2018
Starting with Maria Todorova’s landmark study Imagining the Balkans (Todorova 1997), numerous authors have raised their voices against stereotypical images of the Balkans.
Dumnić-Vilotijević Marija
doaj   +1 more source

Transformations of Tonality: A Longitudinal Study of Yodeling in the Muotatal Valley, Central Switzerland [PDF]

open access: yesAnalytical Approaches to World Music, 2020
This paper examines the transformation of tonalities in the Central Switzerland village of Muotatal, a small region attracting the focus of ethnomusicologists for harboring and conserving a unique style of yodel, called juuz.
Wey, Yannick
doaj  

Beyond the digital diaspora: YouTube methodologies, online networking, and the Hmong Music Festival [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article examines attempts by American Hmong to turn the thriving Hmong digital diaspora into a sustainable offline musical community. The Hmong, an ethnic group of five million people spread across five continents, have embraced YouTube as a primary
Ó Briain, Lonán
core   +2 more sources

Echoes of the Ethnosphere: The Genesis of an Anthropological Novel

open access: yes
General Anthropology, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 9-19, Spring 2025.
Conrad Phillip Kottak, Artie Intel
wiley   +1 more source

The ethnomusicological endeavors of Danica and Ljubica Janković [PDF]

open access: yesMuzikologija, 2014
The pioneering efforts of Ljubica (1894-1974) and Danica (1898-1960) Janković consisted of their systematic research and collecting of traditional dance practice (folk dances), the methodological transcription, analysis and systematizing of ...
Zakić Mirjana
doaj   +1 more source

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