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Sounding First Nations Storytelling in Sydney, Australia (2024)
Thesis
Schuitenmaker, C. Sounding First Nations Storytelling in Sydney, Australia. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis studies how Indigenous storytelling through sounds, musics, and music-making actively reasserts Indigenous presence as a form of political resistance in the urban context of Sydney, Australia. It scrutinises the city’s sonic stimuli and h... Read More about Sounding First Nations Storytelling in Sydney, Australia.

Dyslexic Ways of Thinking: a reflexive study of Chopi timbila xylophone musicking in Mozambique (2022)
Thesis
Campbell, R. Dyslexic Ways of Thinking: a reflexive study of Chopi timbila xylophone musicking in Mozambique. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This research explores relationships between dyslexia and music-making through an experiential open-access web-thesis. That the project can be interpreted in multiple ways challenges conventional forms of academic knowledge production, as well as ins... Read More about Dyslexic Ways of Thinking: a reflexive study of Chopi timbila xylophone musicking in Mozambique.

Powerful sounds: Music, dance and ritual efficacy in Burmese nat kana pwe spirit possession ceremonies (2020)
Thesis
Chiarofonte, L. Powerful sounds: Music, dance and ritual efficacy in Burmese nat kana pwe spirit possession ceremonies. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

In the highly urbanised centres of Yangon and Mandalay, people pay homage to the Thirty-seven Lords, an official pantheon of tutelary spirits of central Burma, through the organisation and performance of nat kana pwe, private spirit ceremonies in the... Read More about Powerful sounds: Music, dance and ritual efficacy in Burmese nat kana pwe spirit possession ceremonies.

Experiencing God in Sound : Music and Meaning in Uyghur Sufism (2018)
Thesis
Mu, Q. Experiencing God in Sound : Music and Meaning in Uyghur Sufism. (Thesis). SOAS, University of London

Living in Xinjiang or Chinese Central Asia, the Uyghur people have developed a unique set of sounded Sufi practices in a largely isolated environment, although they have been historically connected to Sufism in other parts of Asia. The spectrum of su... Read More about Experiencing God in Sound : Music and Meaning in Uyghur Sufism.

Theory and Practice in the Music of the Islamic World: Essays in Honour of Owen Wright (2017)
Book
Harris, R., & Stokes, M. (Eds.). (2017). Theory and Practice in the Music of the Islamic World: Essays in Honour of Owen Wright. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315191461

This volume of original essays is dedicated to Owen Wright in recognition of his formative contribution to the study of music in the Islamic Middle East. Wright’s work, which comprises, at the time of writing, six field-defining volumes and countless... Read More about Theory and Practice in the Music of the Islamic World: Essays in Honour of Owen Wright.

Theory and practice in contemporary Central Asian Maqām traditions: the Uyghur On Ikki Muqam and the Kashmiri Sufyana Musiqi (2017)
Book Chapter
Harris, R. (2017). Theory and practice in contemporary Central Asian Maqām traditions: the Uyghur On Ikki Muqam and the Kashmiri Sufyana Musiqi. In R. Harris, & M. Stokes (Eds.), Theory and Practice in the Music of the Islamic World: Essays in Honour of Owen Wright (217-237). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315191461-11

This chapter considers the problem of theory and practice in Central Asian maqām traditions with reference to two distinct traditions: the Kashmiri Sūfyāna Musīqī and the Uyghur On Ikki Muqam. I speculate that the imposition of different forms of mu... Read More about Theory and practice in contemporary Central Asian Maqām traditions: the Uyghur On Ikki Muqam and the Kashmiri Sufyana Musiqi.

'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..