Books in the Current Research in Ethnomusicology: Outstanding Dissertations series

Seeks to understand the effects that Western-inspired modernity has had on the nature of cultural tradition in Mongolia, focusing in particular on the development of the horse-head fiddle - an instrument that encapsulates the cosmopolitan nature of the nation's contemporary national musical culture.

Originally a royal court dance, "baakisimba" asserted the authority of the king as the head of Baganda society. Integrating a study of the performance genre with a detailed analysis of gender among the Baganda, this book illuminates the complex relationship between "baakisimba" and Baganda culture.

This book provides an in-depth ethnographic investigation of the greatly underestimated and under appreciated dynamic contributions of women singers, the cantaoras, to the creation, transmission and innovation of flamenco song.

This book examines Azerbaijani musical culture of the soviet and post soviet era with a special focus on 'mugam', a musical form bringing together classical poetry with musical improvisation.

This book explores the effects of modernization on the study, practice and performance of Balinese traditional arts, especially the shadow play, based on discourses ranging from performers to administrators.

This work investigates the mangue movement - one of Brazil's most vital pop culture trends of the last thirty years and its related music scene, the so-called New Music scene of Recife.

This book challenges the monolithic portrayals of folk music and social change under commission by making a case for 'people's music' and shows how new folk music embodies an inherently pluralistic concept of Yugoslavia's culture.

This study situates musical analysis in the context of its creation, demonstrating that traditional Japanese music is an active socio- cultural system that has been reproduced in Japan from the seventeenth century to the present day.

This book investigates 'Gypsy music' as a marked and marketable exotic substance, and as a site of active cultural negotiation and appropriation between the real Roma and the idealized Gypsies of the Western imagination.

In the search for the social meaning of song, this book connects the performativity of ritual song to important cultural domains such as political economy and history.

"Maracatu At├┤mico" is the first academic work to investigate the mangue movement, one of Brazil''s most vital pop culture trends of the last thirty years, and the related "new music scene" of Northeast Brazil. Contending with the widespread poverty and social problems, mangue places a renewed value on the local environment and its myriad folk traditions while embracing modern, global pop influences and technology. The book provides historical and ethnographic accounts of the movement, analyzes salient examples of folk and pop fusion music, and enters recent debates about postmodernity, globalization, and "world music" in an attempt to understand better how local musicians in one "Third World" region interact within a more global cultural system.