Identity, Music Technology and The Nation-State In Yucatan, Mexico
Gabriela Vargas-Cetina PhD (Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan) In Mexico national governments have tried, at least since the 1940s, to create a national identity that is deeply rooted in the arts and […]
Between > (play) and |<< (Rewind): Media As An Ethnographic Place
Melisa Riviere (University of Minnesota) From New York to Rio, from Nairobi to Tokyo, hip-hop, more than any other musical genre or youth culture, has permeated nations, cultures and languages worldwide. […]
Stratified Music: Discourses of Artistry and Economy in Condesa, DF
Heather Levi (Temple University) At the end of the twentieth century, the Mexico City neighborhood of Condesa went from a quiet residential zone, home to Spanish and Jewish immigrants and Mexican […]
Music and Local Culture: Turtle Shells in Punta Rock in Belize
Grant Rich (Independent Scholar) Belize, often described as a Caribbean nation in Central America, is a richly diverse nation, with Creole, Mestizo, Maya, Garifuna, and Mennonite groups well-represented among its population […]
Sonic Blackness: Race, Space, and Voice in Afro-Brazilian Radio
Reighan A Gillam (University of Michigan) In 2007, a group of Afro-Brazilian college students started the Dandaras radio program under the aegis of their university in São Paulo, Brazil. This paper […]
Ghost Notes: Re-Performing Duke Ellington’s Such Sweet Thunder
Darren Mueller (Duke University) Some jazz performances are haunted. After Duke Ellington’s death in 1974, his orchestra continues to play under the direction of Ellington’s son and grandson. Musicians often refer […]
Knowledge Is a Sound: Teaching and Learning Science in Four Urban Classrooms
Walter S. Gershon (Kent State University) From questions about methodology to constructions of meaning, there is a great deal of literature dedicated to the significance of voice across the wide variety […]
Establishing a Conversation With the Past and the Present
Steven Elster (Center for Investigations of Health and Education Disparities, UCSD) Establishing a Conversation With the Past and the Present: Towards a Greater Understanding of Southern California Creation Stories and Songs […]
Shakuhachi in a Modernized World: Mediation of a Transformed Culture in the United States
Sarah Renata Strothers (Florida State University) Technological processes have proved to be quite useful in the proliferation and development of traditional Japanese cultures in the United States—especially with regard to the […]
Remediations: Audiological Media and the Experience of Tinnitus
Mack Hagood (Miami University, Ohio) Scholars in science and technology studies (STS) often utilize moments of technological breakdown to reveal the processes and mechanisms that constitute things we take for granted. […]