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Ethnomusicology: Issues and Possibilities

Journal of Arts & Social Sciences, 2015
This study investigates and analyzes the relationship between the development of the field of Ethnomusicology in United States, since the 1950s, and its predecessor known as Comparative Musicology, which emerged during the last two decades of 19th ...
Majid Hamdoon Al Harthy
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Las Kantutas y la música oriental: música folklórica, medios de comunicación y política estatal en la Bolivia de los años 40

Resonancias, 2017
In writings on the early history of mass-mediated Bolivian folkloric music, the La Paz-based female vocal duo Las Kantutas is almost invariably mentioned as one of the most pioneering acts.
Fernando Rios
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Book Review: Mirage (Kanal in Tamil) [PDF]

, 2018
Book review of Mirage (Kanal in Tamil). By K. Daniel. Translated by Subramaniam Jebanesan.
Santiago, Amitha
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Dancing For Ethnic Roots:

Muzikološki Zbornik, 2019
Folk dance ensembles within minority ethnic communities (Albanian, Bosniak, Montenegrin, Croatian, Macedonian and Serbian) in Slovenia were formed in the 1990s, after the breakup of Yugoslavia.
Drago Kunej, Rebeka Kunej
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Twins/Zwillinge: A Broader View. A Contribution to Stith Thompson’s Incomplete Motif System—A Case of the Continuation of Pseudoscientific Fallacies †

Humanities, 2020
Explaining the rationale and main objectives for his motif system; Stith Thompson declared that it emulates what “the scientists have done with the worldwide phenomena of biology” (Thompson 1955, I, p. 10).
Hasan M. El-Shamy
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Music and emotions: A field study among Transylvanian Roma and a few cross-cultural comparisons [PDF]

Muzikologija
In the first part of this article, I analyze the emotional life of a Roma community of Transylvania by describing several performances in which participants cry along with music. This analysis results in a model showing how the relations between
Bonini Baraldi Filippo
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In memoriam Bruno Nettl

Muzikološki Zbornik, 2020
With Bruno Nettl’s passing on 15 January this year, the world of ethnomusicology lost one of its major figures, a scholar who significantly contributed to its affirmation as an academic field worldwide, and who inspired and kept supporting generations of
Svanibor Pettan
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The Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology

Muzikološki Zbornik, 2016
In July 2015, Oxford University Press published a substantial volume titled The Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology, co-edited by two eminent ethnomusicologists, Svanibor Pettan and Jeff Todd Titon.
Jasmina Talam
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Remembering Courtney Cazden, 1925–2025

Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 2, April/May/June 2026.
ABSTRACT Here we remember and honor Courtney B. Cazden (1925–2025), whose scholarship, mentorship, and moral clarity profoundly shaped the study of language, literacy, and learning. Drawing on our shared experiences as colleagues, collaborators, students, and friends, we reflect on Courtney's enduring contributions to classroom discourse analysis ...
Kris D. Gutiérrez, Allan Luke, Mary Kalantzis, Bill Cope, Sarah Michaels, James Paul Gee   +5 more
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Folklore and Sociolinguistics

Humanities, 2018
Folklore and sociolinguistics exist in a symbiotic relationship; more than that, at points—in the ethnography of communication and in ethnopoetics, for example—they overlap and become indistinguishable.
John Holmes McDowell
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