Darko Suvin claims that science fiction is fundamentally concerned with “cognitive estrangement,” or the presence of some element in the story that transforms how its readers understand their world. In fact, much of the developments in science, economics, and politics in the nineteenth century were also concerned with the new worlds revealed by…[Read more]

Taking the idea of a “radical ethnomusicology” from Ed Emery (2017), I want to expose that the fact there is not a normal academic situation for ethnomusicology in the Balearic Islands it is also an opportunity to develop a radical and transforming scholar field, and I also rise some questions that I believe a radical Catalan ethnomusicology…[Read more]

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

Review: Badenya: Manden Jaliya in New York City. From the series: Global Beat of the Boroughs by Tom van Buren; Abou Sylla; Center for Traditional Music and Dance, New York

Review of: Rumba Rules: The Politics of Dance Music in Mobutu’s Zaire by Bob W. White.

Review of: Sound of Africa! Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio, by Louise Meintjes.

Review of Hip Hop Africa: New African Music in a Globalizing World by Eric Charry 2012

This report lays out preliminary notes and findings from an on-going investigation intothe ways in which mobile phone commerce, or ‘m-commerce’, is transforming the Kenyan music industry.

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 Uganda and beyond, edited by Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza and Thomas Solomon, Kampala, Uganda,…[Read more]

Review of: Hip-Hop Colony. DVD. Michael Wanguhu, director, 2007. Chatsworth, CA: Emerge Media Group.

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]