For the past decade, queer and trans rappers have been the dominant force in New Orleans bounce, a dance-centric hip hop genre specific to that city. Inspired by the language of bounce rappers themselves, such as Sissy Nobby, who self-identify as gay and reclaim a once pejorative term to openly express their sexual and gender identities through…[Read more]

Of the sixty-plus companies that comprised the collective WILD (Women’s Independent Label Distribution), Goldenrod Music is the only one that remains and still specializes in women’s music. The company’s survival is contingent upon its ability to adapt to changing lesbian communities; it must both meet the communities’ needs and maintain continu…[Read more]

My core argument in this chapter is that Nairobi’s new recording industry has taken shape in large part through individual projects that are at once wholly musical and wholly entrepreneurial, involving moves and strategies in musical form geared as much toward generating new business models and organisations as they are toward particular a…[Read more]

En este artículo presentamos una primera aproximación a un conjunto de textos hasta ahora desconocidos del músico y musicólogo catalán exiliado Baltasar Samper, responsable, desde 1947 y hasta su muerte, de dirigir los trabajos etnomusicológicos de la Sección de Investigaciones Musicales del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes mexicano. Con esto q…[Read more]