Review about Elvira Asensi book’s “Música mestre!”, about Valencian wind orchestras at the beginning of the 20th century.

The debate over whether the creation of the New Model Army represented continuity or change in the supply systems of parliamentarian armies has suffered from a lack of detailed research on the Earl of Essex’s army. This article begins to redress the balance by examining the supply of horses and saddles to the armies of Essex, Manchester, Waller, a…[Read more]

Speculation about how the social history of early-modern England could be made more sophisticated by including animals.

A 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]

El 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]

The 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]