What is music, and why did it evolve? How can we understand the unity and diversity found
throughout the world's music? Scientific attempts to answer these questions through cross …

Regardless of Eric Hobsbawm's negativistic understanding,'tradition'is a powerful and
dynamic (and in no way traditionalist) concept in academic folkloristics. The widespread …

Resumen Marcial del Adalid (1826-1881): biografía, catalogación de su obra musical y su
vinculación con la creatividad cultural socio-identitaria es un estudio monográfico en torno a …

Please note: This preprint is an excerpt of the Acknowledgments and Chapter 2 from a book
under contract with Oxford University Press. The book contract was signed after the proposal …

In this dissertation I explore common spaces and intersections of the sacred and secular in
contemporary Jewish Jerusalem. Based on ethnographic fieldwork from 2015–2021, I argue …

The history of musical development in cultural groups across Europe is vast and varied. We
know, for instance, that groups of people use music as a way of both creating social …

Against the background of generally low music activity in rural Russia, the button accordion
(garmon') player Mikhail Sorochinsky from the Smolensk province (Smolenskaja oblast) …

Etnomusikologiaren bilakaera antropologia eta musikologiari lotuta egon da eta horrela
jarraitzen du gaur egun. Arloak, pixkanaka, ibilbide propio eta sendo batekin, bere bidea …

The Hungarian school of ethnomusicology was founded in the early 20th century on the
discovery of an entirely unknown musical idiom in the oral tradition of Hungarian peasants …

The public involvement with folk song in 19th-and early-20th-century Austria was shaped by
highly diverse motivations and intellectual and/or ideological preconditions. Academic …