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...Motti Regev Copyright © 1995 by the University of Chicago 1995 Research on Arab music in Israel was funded by the Institute for Israeli Arab Studies in Beit Berl. The author wishes to thank Shaul Mishal for his encouragement, and Eric Cohen, Don Handel man and Danni Rabinowitz...

...Reebee Garofalo Copyright © 1994 by The University of Chicago 1994 Culture versus Commerce: The Marketing of Black Popular Music Reebee Garofalo Despite all of the trappings...

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...Maria Sonevytsky This article investigates how sovereignty works in practice by attending to the aural public sphere of Crimea, as “Eastern music” is produced and circulated by the Crimean Tatar radio and as it penetrates the public spaces of microtransit. I argue that through the dissemination...

...Josh Kun This essay focuses on the contemporary migrant musical practices of mobile Mexican DJ sound systems, or sonidos. Operating on both sides of the US-Mexico border, sonidos use the DJ mix as a form of musical communication and community that both moves between the United States and Mexico...

...David Novak A new world of music has recently taken the North American experimental music scene by storm. In the late 2000s, a wave of labels like Sublime Frequencies and Parallel World and MP3 blogs like Awesome Tapes from Africa redistributed regional popular music recordings as “new old” media...

...Isabel Huacuja Alonso During his decade-long (1952–62) tenure as minister of Information and Broadcasting, B. V. Keskar spearheaded ambitious reforms to the national radio network, All India Radio. Keskar filled broadcasting hours with classical music programming, inviting musicians trained...

...Nadeem Karkabi Dabke is traditional, nonreligious dance music from Greater Syria. In the 1980s, it went through a rapid transition from live into synthesized performance, allowing musicians to experiment with new available sounds that reached global electronic music dance floors. This article...

..., the dotcom and the digital—in different ways and in different decades—enable Kenyans to imagine with and through time. Using extensive ethnographic research and reflecting on pop music, TV advertising, and streetscapes, we explore how, for many Kenyans the dotcom and the digital are tools for making sense...

...Amanda Weidman © 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Amanda Weidman received her doctorate in anthropology from Columbia University in 2001. She is a Karnatic violinist and teaches anthropology at George Washington University. Her book Modernity's Voices: Music and Its Subjects...

...Steven Feld Copyright © 1988 by the Project For Transnational Culture Studies, University of Pennsylvania 1988 Notes on World Beat Steven Feld Department of Anthropology and Music University of Texas, Austin "It is simply incontestable that year by year American popular music...

...Steven Feld Copyright © 1991 by the Center For Transnational Culture Studies 1991 PUBLIC CULTURE’S current cover is also the cover of a CD/cassette recording of music and environmental sounds from Bosavi, Papua New Guinea, commercially released by the Rykodisc label in April...

... 235 Public Culture nineteenth century, its combinations of music and poetry illuminate an as yet unappreciated aspect of Du Bois’s creation. In particular, reading Du Bois’s book in light of ideas about the “total work of art...