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SOAS Studies in Music


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SOAS Studies in Music is today one of the world’s leading series in the discipline of ethnomusicology. Our core mission is to produce high-quality, ethnographically rich studies of music-making in the world’s diverse musical cultures. We publish monographs and edited volumes that explore musical repertories and performance practice, critical issues in ethnomusicology, sound studies, historical and analytical approaches to music across the globe. We recognize the value of applied, interdisciplinary and collaborative research, and our authors draw on current approaches in musicology and anthropology, psychology, media and gender studies. We welcome monographs that investigate global contemporary, classical and popular musics, the effects of digital mediation and transnational flows.

 

Series Editors:

 

Professor Rachel Harris (SOAS University of London)

 

Dr Richard Williams (SOAS University of London)

 

 

Editorial Board

 

Professor Kwasi Ampene (University of Michigan) 

Professor Linda Barwick (University of Sydney) 

Professor Angela Impey (SOAS University of London) 

Dr Peter McMurray (University of Cambridge) 

Dr Moshe Morad (Tel Aviv University) 

Professor Suzel Reily (Universidade Estadual de Campinas) 

Professor Henry Spiller (University California Davis) 

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Fiddles in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Cultures Transatlantic Aesthetics

Fiddles in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Cultures: Transatlantic Aesthetics

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Luiz Moretto
November 05, 2024

Fiddles in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Cultures presents fresh data and debates drawn from extensive research to broaden the study of African music by focusing on fiddle playing, exploring rhythm aesthetics and tonal systems within cultural contexts.. Focused on Cape Verde, Mozambique, and Brazil, the ...

The Gift of Song Performing Exchange in Western Arnhem Land

The Gift of Song: Performing Exchange in Western Arnhem Land

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Reuben Brown
August 29, 2024

The Gift of Song: Performing Exchange in Western Arnhem Land tells the story of the return of physical and digital cultural materials through song and dance. Drawing on extensive, first-person ethnographic fieldwork in western Arnhem Land, Australia, the book examines how Bininj/Arrarrkpi (...

Disaster Songs as Intangible Memorials in Atlantic Canada

Disaster Songs as Intangible Memorials in Atlantic Canada

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Heather Sparling
August 26, 2024

Disaster Songs as Intangible Memorials in Atlantic Canada draws on a collection of over 600 songs relating to Atlantic Canadian disasters from 1891 up until the present and describes the characteristics that define them as intangible memorials. The book demonstrates the relationship between ...

Music and Temple Ritual in South India Performing for Śiva

Music and Temple Ritual in South India: Performing for Śiva

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By William Tallotte
August 26, 2024

Music and Temple Ritual in South India: Performing for Śiva documents the musical practices of the periya mēḷam, a South Indian instrumental ensemble of professional musicians who perform during the rituals and festivals of high-caste (Brahmanical) Tamil Hindu temples dedicated to the Pan-Indian ...

Musical Collaboration Between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous People in Australia Exchanges in The Third Space

Musical Collaboration Between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous People in Australia: Exchanges in The Third Space

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Katelyn Barney
August 26, 2024

This book demonstrates the processes of intercultural musical collaboration and how these processes contribute to facilitating positive relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Australia. Each of the chapters in this edited collection examines specific examples in diverse ...

Rhythm, Ancestrality and Spirit in Maracatu de Nação and Candomblé Repercussions

Rhythm, Ancestrality and Spirit in Maracatu de Nação and Candomblé: Repercussions

1st Edition

By Lizzie Ogle
June 18, 2024

Rhythm, Ancestrality and Spirit in Maracatu de Nação and Candomblé: Repercussions examines how the highly percussive carnival practice of Maracatu de nação – an Afro-Brazilian musical and spiritual tradition originating in the north- eastern state of Pernambuco – has evolved in relation to the ...

Archaic Instruments in Modern West Java: Bamboo Murmurs

Archaic Instruments in Modern West Java: Bamboo Murmurs

1st Edition

By Henry Spiller
May 27, 2024

Archaic Instruments in Modern West Java: Bamboo Murmurs explores how current residents of Bandung, Indonesia, have (re-)adopted bamboo musical instruments to forge meaningful bridges between their past and present—between traditional and modern values. Although it focuses specifically on Bandung, ...

Jiuta Sōkyoku Lyrics and Explanations Songs of the Floating World

Jiuta Sōkyoku Lyrics and Explanations: Songs of the Floating World

1st Edition

Edited By Christopher Yohmei Blasdel
May 09, 2024

Jiuta Sōkyoku Lyrics and Explanations is a compendium of seventy-three representative songs from the well-known genre of traditional Japanese Edo-period sankyoku ensemble music. Including extensive annotations along with commentaries and notes on their musical and performative aspects, the ...

Sonic Ruins of Modernity Judeo-Spanish Folksongs Today

Sonic Ruins of Modernity: Judeo-Spanish Folksongs Today

1st Edition

By Edwin Seroussi
January 29, 2024

Sonic Ruins of Modernity shows how social, cultural and cognitive phenomena interact in the making and distribution of folksongs beyond their time. Through Judeo-Spanish (or Ladino) folksongs, the author illustrates a methodology for the interplay of individual memories, artistic initiatives, ...

The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights

The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights

1st Edition

Edited By Julian Fifer, Angela Impey, Peter G. Kirchschlaeger, Manfred Nowak, George Ulrich
January 29, 2024

The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights is a collection of case studies spanning a wide range of concerns about music and human rights in response to intensifying challenges to the well-being of individuals, peoples, and the planet. It brings forward the expertise of academic researchers,...

The Shared Musical Heritage of Congo and Cuba

The Shared Musical Heritage of Congo and Cuba

1st Edition

By Sara McGuinness
December 31, 2023

There is a longstanding historical and cultural relationship between Congo and Cuba via the slave trade and the ’return’ of Cuban music to Africa, a relationship that has apparently been very scantily documented. It is acknowledged that Congolese roots are present in Cuban music but there is little...

Celtic Music and Dance in Cornwall Cornu-Copia

Celtic Music and Dance in Cornwall: Cornu-Copia

1st Edition

By Lea Hagmann
September 25, 2023

Focusing on the Cornish Music and Dance Revival, this book investigates the revivalists’ claims about Cornwall’s cultural distinctiveness and Celtic heritage, both which are presently used as arguments to promote the English county’s political status as an independent Celtic nation. The author ...

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