Ethnomusicology 2021

Virtual Exhibit for the British Forum for Ethnomusicology Conference

8-11th April 2021

Exclusive conference discount

Order any Ethnomusicology title through the CAP website with the below code for an exclusive 30% discount

Discount code valid until 30th April 2021, 11:59pm GMT. Please note we only ship to the UK, EMEA & APAC


New and Forthcoming

Kusamira Music in Uganda

Spirit Mediumship and Ritual Healing

University of Illinois Press

26th October 2021

Theorizing Folklore from the Margins

Critical and Ethical Approaches

Indiana University Press

15th June 2021

Industrial Strength Bluegrass

Southwestern Ohio's Musical Legacy

University of Illinois Press

25th January 2021

The Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England

Moving Media, Tactical Publics

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

1st January 2021

Representing Islam

Hip-Hop of the September 11 Generation

Indiana University Press

1st December 2020

Emerald Street

A History of Hip Hop in Seattle

University of Washington Press

15th November 2020

Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam

Indiana University Press

3rd November 2020

Sounds from the Other Side

Afro–South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music

University of Minnesota Press

3rd November 2020

Rez Metal

Inside the Navajo Nation Heavy Metal Scene

Bison Books

1st October 2020

Unlikely Angel

The Songs of Dolly Parton

University of Illinois Press

16th September 2020

American Gamelan and the Ethnomusicological Imagination

University of Illinois Press

11th September 2020

Toward a Sound Ecology

New and Selected Essays

Indiana University Press

25th August 2020

Psychobilly

Subcultural Survival

Temple University Press

24th June 2020

Signs of the Spirit

Music and the Experience of Meaning in Ndau Ceremonial Life

University of Illinois Press

8th June 2020

Hungry Listening

Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies

University of Minnesota Press

12th May 2020

Circuit Listening

Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s

University of Minnesota Press

17th March 2020

Musical Ethics and Islam

The Art of Playing the Ney

University of Illinois Press

4th March 2020

Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts

Indiana University Press

11th February 2020

A Guru’s Journey

Pandit Chitresh Das and Indian Classical Dance in Diaspora

University of Illinois Press

2nd December 2019

Hot Feet and Social Change

African Dance and Diaspora Communities

University of Illinois Press

4th November 2019

Island Gospel

Pentecostal Music and Identity in Jamaica and the United States

University of Illinois Press

14th October 2019

Sounds of Vacation

Political Economies of Caribbean Tourism

Duke University Press Books

30th August 2019

Living Ethnomusicology

Paths and Practices

University of Illinois Press

16th June 2019

Storytime in India

Wedding Songs, Victorian Tales, and the Ethnographic Experience

Indiana University Press

14th June 2019

Music in the American Diasporic Wedding

Indiana University Press

23rd May 2019

Cultural Sustainabilities

Music, Media, Language, Advocacy

University of Illinois Press

30th April 2019

Styling Blackness in Chile

Music and Dance in the African Diaspora

Indiana University Press

30th April 2019

Remapping Sound Studies

Duke University Press Books

26th April 2019

Performing Tsarist Russia in New York

Music, Émigrés, and the American Imagination

Indiana University Press

24th April 2019

Handbook for Folklore and Ethnomusicology Fieldwork

Indiana University Press

5th April 2019

Ritual Soundings

Women Performers and World Religions

University of Illinois Press

16th March 2019

The Race of Sound

Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music

Duke University Press Books

11th January 2019

Voices of Drought

The Politics of Music and Environment in Northeastern Brazil

University of Illinois Press

16th October 2018

Black Lives Matter and Music

Protest, Intervention, Reflection

Indiana University Press

10th August 2018

The Gnawa Lions

Authenticity and Opportunity in Moroccan Ritual Music

Indiana University Press

6th August 2018

Country Music USA

50th Anniversary Edition

University of Texas Press

1st June 2018

Black Opera

History, Power, Engagement

University of Illinois Press

4th May 2018

Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam

University of Texas Press

13th March 2018

Tropical Riffs

Latin America and the Politics of Jazz

Duke University Press Books

7th March 2018

Fernando Ortiz on Music

Selected Writing on Afro-Cuban Culture

Temple University Press

23rd February 2018

On Site, In Sound

Performance Geographies in América Latina

Duke University Press Books

13th February 2018

Singing Yoruba Christianity

Music, Media, and Morality

Indiana University Press

12th February 2018

Just One of the Boys

Female-to-Male Cross-Dressing on the American Variety Stage

University of Illinois Press

4th January 2018

American Sabor

Latinos and Latinas in US Popular Music / Latinos y latinas en la musica popular estadounidense

University of Washington Press

15th December 2017

Jazz Internationalism

Literary Afro-Modernism and the Cultural Politics of Black Music

University of Illinois Press

16th October 2017

Storytelling in Siberia

The Olonkho Epic in a Changing World

University of Illinois Press

13th October 2017

Global Tarantella

Reinventing Southern Italian Folk Music and Dances

University of Illinois Press

13th October 2017

Building New Banjos for an Old-Time World

University of Illinois Press

11th September 2017

Recasting Folk in the Himalayas

Indian Music, Media, and Social Mobility

University of Illinois Press

11th September 2017

Listening for Africa

Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music's African Origins

Duke University Press Books

16th August 2017

Is Birdsong Music?

Outback Encounters with an Australian Songbird

Indiana University Press

1st May 2017

Following the Elephant

Ethnomusicologists Contemplate Their Discipline

University of Illinois Press

15th October 2016

Women Singers in Global Contexts

Music, Biography, Identity

University of Illinois Press

15th February 2016

Where Rivers and Mountains Sing

Sound, Music, and Nomadism in Tuva and Beyond

Indiana University Press

15th November 2010


Enter our prize draw for a chance to win one of the books below

To be entered into our prize draw, please complete our short conference feedback survey by clicking the link below. You’ll also receive an extra 5% off the conference discount after you’ve submitted your entry.

Please note entries will be accepted until 4 May 2021 at 23:59 (UK time)

A Guru’s Journey
Pandit Chitresh Das and Indian Classical Dance in Diaspora
Sarah Morelli
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS

Representing Islam
Hip-Hop of the September 11 Generation
Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS

Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam
Rachel Harris
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS


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Music in American Life

University of Illinois Press

Music in American Life is a longstanding series that embodies the twin goals of documenting the place of music in American culture and the cultural life that gives rise to particular musical forms. Encompassing the broadest range of music, from classical through all forms of American vernacular music, the series welcomes a variety of approaches to the topic of music in American life, including monographs, biographies, memoirs, reference books, readers, and edited collections.

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The Race of Sound

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A Guru’s Journey

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Sounds of Vacation

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Fernando Ortiz on Music

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Voices of Drought

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