What is the Color of Consciousness?
As SAC tries to improve its Internet presence in response to the AAA’s request for 5 year publishing plans, board members and journal editors push themselves to ask questions of […]
SOUND, MUSIC, TECHNOLOGY: ANTHROPOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS
Chicago Hilton: Grand Tradition Room Friday November 22, 2013 1:45 PM-5:30 PM In the twenty first century sound seems to surround us everywhere, and music seems to be within reach […]
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 […]
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 […]