Ethnomusicology Review

We are happy to announce the publication of Volume 24!! 🥳 Born to Be Alive: Contemporary Issues in Live Music Research - Special Issue edited by Paula Guerra and Samuel Lamontagne 👇 ethnomusicologyreview.ucla.edu/journal/volume…

Review of Dilla Time by @dancharnas in our Hip Hop section! by Aisha Gallion ethnomusicologyreview.ucla.edu/content/review…

The NID Tapes is an incredible haul of Indian electronic music 1969-1972, uncovered at the archives of the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad by Paul Purgas of Emptyset - as detailed in the 'Electronic India' documentary on the BBC a couple of years ago.

Charles Mingus on jazz music.

Nina Simone performing “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free” in the 1960s.

Remembering the great Aretha Franklin who was born on this day in 1942. Here, she is performing “Climbing Higher Mountains” with James Cleveland live at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles, 1972.

Featured as one of the best in the game blog.feedspot.com/musicology_blo…

New piece by Gavin Lee - Sound and Music of the Zero-COVID Protests in China ethnomusicologyreview.ucla.edu/content/sound-…

@robhaskins up to interpretation!

@EthnomusReview Patrick Hernandez allusion intentional?

We are happy to announce the publication of Volume 24!! 🥳 Born to Be Alive: Contemporary Issues in Live Music Research - Special Issue edited by Paula Guerra and Samuel Lamontagne 👇 ethnomusicologyreview.ucla.edu/journal/volume…

RIP Gangsta Boo. The first lady of Southern rap, a pioneer w/ mesmerizing get money bounce, and a ubiquitous influence since she kicked Satanic verses at 15 on "Mystic Stylez." Boo defined Memphis rap as much as anyone in Three 6, and never spit a bad verse. Gone far too soon.

In case Michael Drake and his dinner guests forgot, we came to remind them: Berkeley classes - union made! Berkeley research - union made! Berkeley rents don’t match our pay!

“I see about $20k a year,” Ms. Boll said of her work as a TA. “Unless you have family support, or unless you have savings, that isn’t doable.” wsj.com/articles/unive…

Tens of thousands of Academic Workers held the line on Day 2 of our multi-unit statewide strike. We made UC return to the bargaining table, despite having previously declined to schedule any sessions for today. With our growing power, we WILL win fair contracts! @UAWonStrike

Forty-eight thousand University of California graduate student workers are preparing to strike across all 10 UC campuses starting Monday. democracynow.org/2022/11/11/hea…

Editorial: A strike by UC academic workers would tarnish the prestigious university system (via @latimesopinion) latimes.com/opinion/story/…

An interview with rapper, clothing designer & community activist Six Sev about collaborating with Terrace Martin, the lineage of Leimert artists, gentrification, the influence of Nipsey, & his latest 'Give Thanks." By Samuel LaMontagne passionweiss.com/2022/11/08/six… @mayorofleimert_

RIP Pharoah Sanders, a sacred priest disguised as a tenor sax sorcerer, whose solo opuses & work w/ John & Alice Coltrane levitated into realms of time, space and divine cosmic reverie that no one traversed before or since. The holiest seer of spiritual jazz, the last of the best

Hip Hop Music from the French West Indies: The Guadeloupean Clan New piece by Florabelle Spielmann 👇 ethnomusicologyreview.ucla.edu/content/hip-ho…

Some great news for two great men: I spoke with Larry Heard, Robert Owens, and the people who helped them win their long, hard-fought legal battle against Trax Records theguardian.com/music/2022/aug…

We fondly remember the late pianist, harpist, and composer Alice Coltrane, who would have turned 85 today.