Adriana N. Helbig: Hip-Hop Ukraine: Music, Race, and African Migration (2014)
Filed under book | Tags: · africa, african american culture, black people, blackness, ethnomusicology, gender, hip hop, identity, immigration, music, race, rap, soviet union, uganda, ukraine
“In Hip Hop Ukraine, we enter a world of urban music and dance competitions, hip hop parties, and recording studio culture to explore unique sites of interracial encounters among African students, African immigrants, and local populations in eastern Ukraine. Adriana N. Helbig combines ethnographic research with music, media, and policy analysis to examine how localized forms of hip hop create social and political spaces where an interracial youth culture can speak to issues of human rights and racial equality. She maps the complex trajectories of musical influence—African, Soviet, American—to show how hip hop has become a site of social protest in post-socialist society and a vehicle for social change.”
Publisher Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 2014
ISBN 9780253012043, 025301204X
xix+233 pages
Interview with author: Amanda Jeanne Swain (New Books Network, 2014, podcast).
Reviews: Kevin C. Holt (Current Musicology, 2014), Michael C. Thornton (Slavonic and East European Review, 2015), Mark Alan Rhodes II (Social & Cultural Geography, 2015), Anna Oldfield (Popular Music and Society, 2015), Tony Mitchell (Slavic Review, 2016), Kendra Salois (Ethnomusicology, 2017).
David Novak: Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation (2013)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, ethnomusicology, feedback, improvised music, japan, listening, music, music criticism, music history, musicology, noise, performance, technology
“Noise, an underground music made through an amalgam of feedback, distortion, and electronic effects, first emerged as a genre in the 1980s, circulating on cassette tapes traded between fans in Japan, Europe, and North America. With its cultivated obscurity, ear-shattering sound, and over-the-top performances, Noise has captured the imagination of a small but passionate transnational audience.
For its scattered listeners, Noise always seems to be new and to come from somewhere else: in North America, it was called ‘Japanoise.’ But does Noise really belong to Japan? Is it even music at all? And why has Noise become such a compelling metaphor for the complexities of globalization and participatory media at the turn of the millennium?
In Japanoise, David Novak draws on more than a decade of research in Japan and the United States to trace the ‘cultural feedback’ that generates and sustains Noise. He provides a rich ethnographic account of live performances, the circulation of recordings, and the lives and creative practices of musicians and listeners. He explores the technologies of Noise and the productive distortions of its networks. Capturing the textures of feedback—its sonic and cultural layers and vibrations—Novak describes musical circulation through sound and listening, recording and performance, international exchange, and the social interpretations of media.”
Publisher Duke University Press, Durham, 2013
Sign, Storage, Transmission series
Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License
ISBN 9780822353799, 0822353792
x+292 pages
via author
Reviews: Shaun McKenna (Japan Times, 2013), Scott McLemee (Inside Higher Ed, 2013), Nana Kaneko (Ethnomusicology Rev, 2014), Andrés García Molina (Current Musicology, 2014), Max Ritts (Society+Space, 2014), Jonathan Service (Japan Forum, 2014), Rosemary Overell (Perfect Beat, 2014), Patrick Valiquet (Popular Musicology, 2014), Owen Coggins (Harts & Minds, 2014), Seth Mulliken (Sounding Out!, 2014), E. Taylor Atkins (Asian Music, 2015), Shelina Brown (Notes, 2015), Jennifer Milioto Matsue (Am Anthropologist, 2015), Carolyn S. Stevens (Am Ethnologist, 2015), Christopher Tonelli (Sound Studies, 2016), Benjamin Harley (Enculturation, 2016), Etienne RP (2017).
Book website, with supplemental media
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Sonideros on the Sidewalks: Bring on the Revelry (2012) [Spanish]
Filed under book | Tags: · anthropology, dance music, ethnomusicology, mexico, music, street art
A collection of texts and photographs dedicated to the soundsystem culture of sonidero movement in Mexico.
El Proyecto Sonidero nace en 2008 con el fin de reconocer la potencia del movimiento sonidero como respuesta creativa, que opera como una plataforma transnacional de expresión, innovación, mediación, participación y comunicación para amplios sectores de México y América. Este es el territorio que explora nuestro trabajo con la comunidad de sonideros, los espacios culturales y los ámbitos académicos y artísticos. Juntos producimos conocimientos y acontecimientos.
EPS reúne a antropólogos, etnomusicólogos, promotores, sonideros, productores, fotógrafos, documentalistas y artistas de México, Estados Unidos, Colombia, Brasil, Bolivia, España y Argentina. Su base está en la ciudad de México.Po
Sonideros en las aceras, véngase la gozadera
Edited by Mariana Delgado, Marco Ramírez Cornejo and Livia Radwanski
Publisher Tumbona Ediciones, 2012
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA License 3.0
230 pages
via Mariana
Book website
Summary and photographs by Livia Radwanski (in Spanish and English)
Mariana Delgado about sonideros (Vice, 2008, in English)
Mariana Delgado about Polymarchs posters (Furtherfield, May 2014, in English)
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See also a short documentary about Polymarchs, the electronic/disco side of the sonidero culture (12 min, 2014, English subs, added on 2014-9-6)