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1. Newly Composed Folk Music of Yugoslavia

   By Ljerka V. Rasmussen

   Series: Current Research in Ethnomusicology: Outstanding Dissertations

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

   Published September 27th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Horse-head Fiddle and the Cosmopolitan Reimagination of Tradition in Mongolia

   By Peter K. Marsh

   Series: Current Research in Ethnomusicology: Outstanding Dissertations

   Few other nations have undergone as profound a change in their social, political, and cultural life as Mongolia did in the twentieth century. Beginning the century as a largely rural, nomadic, and tradition-oriented society, the nation was transformed by the end of this century into a largely...

   Published October 21st 2008 by Routledge
3. Baakisimba

   Gender in the Music and Dance of the Baganda People of Uganda

   By Sylvia Antonia Nannyonga-Tamusuza

   Series: Current Research in Ethnomusicology: Outstanding Dissertations

   Published August 29th 2005 by Routledge
4. The Gypsy Caravan

   From Real Roma to Imaginary Gypsies in Western Music

   By David Malvinni

   Series: Current Research in Ethnomusicology: Outstanding Dissertations

   Published April 15th 2004 by Routledge
5. Shaped by Japanese Music

   Kikuoka Hiroaki and Nagauta Shamisen in Tokyo

   By Jay Davis Keister

   Series: Current Research in Ethnomusicology: Outstanding Dissertations

   Published April 6th 2004 by Routledge
6. Balinese Discourses on Music and Modernization

   Village Voices and Urban Views

   By Brita Renee Heimarck

   Series: Current Research in Ethnomusicology: Outstanding Dissertations

   Published October 29th 2003 by Routledge
7. Song from the Land of Fire

   Azerbaijanian Mugam in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods

   By Inna Naroditskaya

   Series: Current Research in Ethnomusicology: Outstanding Dissertations

   Published July 28th 2003 by Routledge
8. Cantaoras

   Music, Gender and Identity in Flamenco Song

   By Loren Chuse

   Series: Current Research in Ethnomusicology: Outstanding Dissertations

   This book provides an in-depth ethnographic investigation of the greatly underestimated and underappreciated contributions of women singers, the cantaoras, to the creation, transmission and innovation in flamenco song. Situating the study of flamenco in the context of social and political currents...

   Published March 27th 2003 by Routledge
9. Maracatu Atomico

   Tradition, Modernity, and Postmodernity in the Mangue Movement and the "New Music Scene" of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

   By Philip Galinsky

   Series: Current Research in Ethnomusicology: Outstanding Dissertations

   Published September 19th 2002 by Routledge
10. Songs and Gifts at the Frontier

    By Jose S. Buenconsejo

    Series: Current Research in Ethnomusicology: Outstanding Dissertations

    Published September 12th 2002 by Routledge