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'Tezeta' (Nostalgia): Memory and Loss in Ethiopia and the Diaspora (2016)
Book Chapter
Webster-Kogen, I. (2016). 'Tezeta' (Nostalgia): Memory and Loss in Ethiopia and the Diaspora. In R. Harris, & R. Pease (Eds.), Pieces of the Musical World: Sounds and Culture (227-244). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315857879-24

In an imagined canon of Ethiopian songs, the undisputed top position goes to “Tezeta,” a song that evokes feelings of sadness and affection for country, friends, and relations. The song’s performance practice has changed over time as Ethiopian musici... Read More about 'Tezeta' (Nostalgia): Memory and Loss in Ethiopia and the Diaspora.

"Grande Mestre": Longing and celebration in Capoeira Angola (Brazil) (2015)
Book Chapter
Marriage, Z. (2015). "Grande Mestre": Longing and celebration in Capoeira Angola (Brazil). In R. Harris, & R. Pease (Eds.), Pieces of the Musical World: Sounds and Cultures. Routledge

This recording opens with a melancholy solo song about being enslaved and forcibly transported to Brazil. It then passes through a praise section in which the chorus joins in, before moving to the more up-beat call-and-response songs that accompany t... Read More about "Grande Mestre": Longing and celebration in Capoeira Angola (Brazil).

"Soliyo" (calling the horses): song and memory in Mande music (Mali) (2015)
Book Chapter
Duran, L. (2015). "Soliyo" (calling the horses): song and memory in Mande music (Mali). In R. Harris, & R. Pease (Eds.), Pieces of the musical world: the study of music in culture (27-44). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315857879-9

This chapter explores the layered meanings and special place in the Mande jeli (hereditary musician) repertoire of a piece of music which for sake of clarity, will be referred to either as Soliyo, or in its translation as “Calling the horses’ (though... Read More about "Soliyo" (calling the horses): song and memory in Mande music (Mali).

Pieces of the Musical World: Sounds and Cultures (2015)
Book
Harris, R., & Pease, R. (Eds.). (2015). Pieces of the Musical World: Sounds and Cultures. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315857879

Pieces of the Musical World: Sounds and Cultures is a fieldwork-based ethnomusicology textbook that introduces a series of musical worlds each through a single "piece." It focuses on a musical sound or object that provides a springboard from which to... Read More about Pieces of the Musical World: Sounds and Cultures.

“Song of Akuac”: Audio-letters from South Sudan: Tracing Dinka Networks, Connections, and Intimacies beyond the war zone. (2015)
Book Chapter
Impey, A. (2015). “Song of Akuac”: Audio-letters from South Sudan: Tracing Dinka Networks, Connections, and Intimacies beyond the war zone. In R. Harris, & R. Pease (Eds.), Pieces of the Musical World. Sounds and Culture (195-207). Routledge

This chapter explores the practice of song-making and sharing in the
culture of the Dinka people of South Sudan. It focuses in particular
on the global circulation of songs in the form of cassette audio-letters
which pass between South Sudan and t... Read More about “Song of Akuac”: Audio-letters from South Sudan: Tracing Dinka Networks, Connections, and Intimacies beyond the war zone..

Gender in Chinese Music (2013)
Book
Harris, R., Pease, R., & Tan, S. E. (Eds.). (2013). Gender in Chinese Music. University of Rochester Press

Village ritualists, international classical pianists, pop idols, and professional mourners -- whether they perform in temples, on concert stages, or in TV shows, Chinese musicians continually express and negotiate their gendered identities. Gender in... Read More about Gender in Chinese Music.

Korean Pop Music: Riding the Wave (2006)
Book
Howard, K., Lee, Y. M., Finchum-Sung, H., Maliangkay, R., Hwang, O., Pak, G. L., Son, M., Willoughby, H. A., Jung, E.-Y., Crieghton, M., Pease, R., Sung, S.-Y., Epstein, S., & Anderson Sutton, R. (2006). K. Howard (Ed.). Korean Pop Music: Riding the Wave. Global Oriental

The first book in English to consider Korean pop music. The book offers a comprehensive account, written by thirteen scholars of Korean Studies, ethnomusicology and popular culture, charting Korean pop from the 1930s to the present day, from genres i... Read More about Korean Pop Music: Riding the Wave.