In Making Value, Timothy D. Taylor examines how people’s conceptions of value inform and shape their production and cons......more

In Making Value, Timothy D. Taylor examines how people’s conceptions of value inform and shape their production and cons......more

What makes sounds "religious"? How are communities shaped by the things they hear, play, or listen to? This book foregro......more

This book summarizes a decade of research on its topic, while each specific perspective either formed in advance, or aro......more

The "anthropological turn" in ethnomusicology is generally associated with Alan P. Merriam’s "Anthropology of music" (19......more

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"Imprisoned since age nineteen, Alim Braxton has spent more than a quarter century on North Carolina’s death row. During......more

"A cultural history of Swahili taarab, a form of sung poetry that emerged as East Africa’s first mass-mediated popular m......more

"A cultural history of Swahili taarab, a form of sung poetry that emerged as East Africa’s first mass-mediated popular m......more

Music as Agency: Diversities of Perspectives on Artistic Citizenship focuses on the concept, application, interpretation......more