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Stephe Harrop deposited Staging a Transforming Great Britain: Tamlane, The Social Turn, and the 2014 Referendum in the group
Ethnomusicology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis chapter emerges from the energies and aspirations of the years leading up to the Scottish Independence Referendum of September 2014, and explores three dramas created during this period: The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (David Greig, 2011), The Bloody Great Border Ballad Project (Northern Stage, 2013) and Rantin (Kieran Hurley, 2013). It…[Read more]
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Kariann Goldschmitt deposited From Disney to Dystopia: Transforming “Brazil” For A U.S. Audience in the group
Ethnomusicology on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoEver since appearing in Disney’s Saludos Amigos (1942), Ary Barroso’s musical ode to the Brazilian motherland, “Brazil,” is among the most recognizable songs circulating in Western Culture about Brazil. This essay shows how the song became detached from its roots as a nationalist samba to represent in audiovisual media such divergent ideas as tro…[Read more]
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Kathleen DeLaurenti started the topic What does open music mean to you? in the discussion
Ethnomusicology on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months ago2017 marks the 10th year that there has been a global celebration of open during Open Access Week.
Organized by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), OA Week celebrates:
“Open Access to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those r…[Read more]
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Amadeu Corbera Jaume deposited Música, mestre! Sobre el llibre de Elvira Asensi in the group
Ethnomusicology on Humanities Commons 8 years, 4 months agoReview about Elvira Asensi book’s “Música mestre!”, about Valencian wind orchestras at the beginning of the 20th century.
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Amadeu Corbera Jaume deposited Vine a la festa! La creació i consolidació de l’escena pop catalana: 1991-2008 in the group
Ethnomusicology on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoA principis dels anys 90, amb el boom del Rock català, comença formar-se tota una escena musical pròpia dels Països Catalans, amb un model de funcionament diferenciat del de l’escena espanyola. Actualment, aquesta escena ha canviat, s’han obert noves vies: per una banda, l’eco del Rock català segueix vigent, mentre que per l’altra es…[Read more]
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Amadeu Corbera Jaume deposited Seguint el rastre de la Sibil ! la a Menorca in the group
Ethnomusicology on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoEl cant de la Sibil·la és una tradició medieval que avui encara es canta a l’illa de Mallorca durant la nit de Nadal. Però existeixen traces que demostren el coneixement popular d’aquesta representació a l’illa de Menorca almenys fins al segle XIX.
The Chant of the Sibyl is a medieval tradition that is still sung in the island of Mallorca duri…[Read more]
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Andrew J. Eisenberg deposited Hip-Hop and Cultural Citizenship on Kenya’s “Swahili Coast” in the group
Ethnomusicology on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThe Muslim-dominated “Swahili Coast”has always served as a conceptual as well as physical periphery for post-colonial Kenya. This article takes Kenyan youth music under the influence of global hip-hop as an ethnographic entry into the dynamics of identity and citizenship in this region. Kenyan youth music borrows from global hip-hop culture the…[Read more]
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Amadeu Corbera Jaume created the group
Ethnomusicology on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months ago