OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ethnomusicology is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Music, Shared Histories, and Futures in Toyama City, Japan: Owara Kaze no Bon and Celebrating a New Tram Connection in the Early Pandemic	15
Chinese Dance: In the Vast Land and Beyond	13
Rímur in the Nuclear Age: Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson and Icelandic Traditional Music	5
Melancholic Modalities: Affect, Islam, and Turkish Classical Musicians	4
Mizrahi Rap in Israel: Ethnicity and Intertextuality in the Cosmopolitan Post-Genre Era	4
Encountering Publicness and Multiculture: Public Pedagogy with a Multilingual Community Choir	3
Chocolate Surrealism: Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean	3
Singers’ Realizations of Linguistic Tone in Chaozhou Song	2
From the Editor	2
Praise Singing, Proxemics, and the Feelingful Iconization of State Relations in Omani ‘Āzī	2
“So Let's Bang on Some Pots”: Sound, Intimacy, and the Public Life of Affect in Brazil's Panelaços	2
Notes on Contributing Authors	1
Depiction and Empowerment of Women in Indigenous Igbo Music	1
When the Trees Resound: Collaborative Media Research on an Italian Festival	1
Music and Incitement to Violence: Anti-Muslim Hate Music in Burma/Myanmar	1
Jazzing: New York City's Unseen Scene	1
Buganda Royal Music Revival	1
Teaching Talent: Beginning and/as Method in Two American Violin Studios	1
Latin Jazz: The Other Jazz	1
When Silence Is Heard: Embodied Listening in Medical Facilities’ Competing Sonic Epistemes	0
“Now We're Actually Playing Music”: Sones and Parental Transformation in Mexican Chicago	0
Sounding Modern-nite: Tabaski in Senegal and the Sonic Production of the Human	0
Notes on Contributing Authors	0
Notes on Contributing Authors	0
Diversity and Contact among Singer-Poet Traditions in Eastern Anatolia	0

Poetry Writing as Transgressive Ethnography	0
Issues in African American Music: Power, Gender, Race, Representation	0
Kulintang Kultura: Danongan Kalanduyan and Gong Music of the Philippine Diaspora	0
Crafting Fieldwork and Insider/Outsider Collaborations: Musical Ethnography in Sardinia	0
Local Fusions: Folk Music Experiments in Central Europe at the Millennium	0
Chimichagua and the Musical Ecosystem of the Tambora in the Depresión Momposina	0
Some Notes on Tuning Up	0
Notes on Contributing Authors	0
The Scholarly Ustad: Hindustani Music's Muslim Hereditary Professionals and Their Textual Traditions	0
The Hidden Music of a Hidden People: The Case of Amakhuwa of Northern Mozambique	0
River City Drumbeat	0
The Musicolonial Politics of the Category of Man: The Case of Suriname	0
Notes on Contributing Authors	0
Notes on Contributing Authors	0
Music, Education, and Diversity: Building Cultures and Communities	0
The Pearl of Muğam Philosophy: Qəzəl Poetry and Musical Hermeneutics in Independent Azerbaijan	0
Cool Running: The Story of Ghana's Honk Horn Lorries and Por Por Music	0
The Magic of Beverly Sills	0
“The War Songs Continue ’til They Find Peace”: Music and the Politics of Death on the Ethio-South Sudanese Border	0
Audible States: Socialist Politics and Popular Music in Albania	0
Sour Solidarities: Musicians, Academics, and Precarity in the Pandemic's Wake	0
Embodied Ritual, Efficacious Song: Marcel Mauss and the Limits of Anthropology	0
From the Editor	0
The Social Spaces of Music Traditions in Baghdad before and after Destruction	0
Notes on Contributing Authors	0
Sweet Tassa: Music of the Indian Caribbean Diaspora	0
The Last Repair Shop	0
Gitara	0
Notes on Contributing Authors	0
Studies on a Global History of Music: A Balzan Musicology Project	0
Ritual Speech in the Himalayas: Oral Texts and Their Contexts	0
From the Editor	0
Shared Soundscapes of Ottoman Era Safed: A Musical Microhistory	0
Global Perspectives on Orchestras: Collective Creativity and Social Agency	0
“Some Rooms Make You Whisper”: The Art of Isolation and the Racial Politics of Quiet in a Concert Hall Built for Jazz	0
Government-Mandated Coolness: Education Policy, the Koto, and Music Teacher Retraining in Japan	0
College Music Curricula for a New Century	0
Gagaku, Ensemble OnoTeruhisa Fukuda, maître de shakuhachi. Offrande musicale	0
Notes on Contributing Authors	0
On Race, Value, and the Need to Reimagine Ethnomusicology for the Future	0
Religious Conflict, Ritual Embodiment, and Music in the Twentieth-Century Guatemalan Highlands	0
The Voice and Its Doubles: Media and Music in Northern AustraliaMaking Aboriginal Men and Music in Central Australia	0
Jump Up! Caribbean Carnival Music in New York	0
The Female Voice of Iran	0
The Beatles: Get Back	0
Lions of the North: Sounds of the New Nordic Radical Nationalism	0
The Mountain Minor	0
Remembering Palghat Raghu	0
The Art of Mbira: Musical Inheritance and LegacyMbira's Restless Dance: An Archive of Improvisation, Vols. 1 & 2	0
Travels with Frances Densmore: Her Life, Work, and Legacy in Native American Studies	0

From the Editor	0
Authority, Deference, and Disregard in Catholic Liturgical Music in Central Cameroon	0
Sentimental Orientation: Listening and Musical Value in Kaapse Klopse Practice	0
Voices of the Rainforest: A Day in the Life of Bosavi Papua New Guinea	0
Networking Global Hip Hop Knowledges: The CIPHER Method	0
Digital Tradition: Arrangement and Labor in Istanbul's Recording Studio Culture	0
Song King: Connecting People, Places, and Past in Contemporary China	0
Reforesting About Music? Auralities of Restoration in Southern Mexico City	0
Singing the Congregation: How Contemporary Worship Music Forms Evangelical Community	0
A Season of Singing: Creating Feminist Jewish Music in the United States	0
Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest	0
Playing the Flute in Shanghai: The Musical Life of Dai Shuhong	0
The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music	0
The Transformation of Black Music: The Rhythms, the Songs, and the Ships of the African Diaspora	0
From the Editor	0
Singing a Great Dream: The Revolutionary Songs and Life of Khusiram Pakhrin	0
Shared Soundscapes of Ottoman Era Safed: A Musical Microhistory	0
Echoes of Ethnicity: Popular Music and the Resurgence of Igbo Nationalism in Democratic Nigeria	0
A Queerly Joyful Noise: Choral Musicking for Social JusticeFocus: Choral Music in Global Perspective	0
Motivating Traditional Musicians to Learn a Heritage Language in Gaelic Nova Scotia	0
Community in Syntony: TheorizingAxéin Capoeira Angola and Rural Samba of Backland Bahia, Brazil	0
Gamelan Girls: Gender, Childhood, and Politics in Balinese Music Ensembles	0
“We Should Be Louder”: Rastafari, Amplified Spirituality, and Spacemaking in Shashemene, Ethiopia	0
Modernizing Composition: Sinhala Song, Poetry, and Politics in Twentieth Century Sri Lanka	0
The Interplay of Music, Money, and Agency in Azerbaijani Ashiq Bards’ Performances at Iranian Azerbaijani Weddings	0
Riff Culture: Spontaneous Solo Performances in Private Rock Music Schools	0
From the Editor	0
Improvisation and Social Aesthetics	0
Remapping Sound Studies	0
From the Editor	0
Sound, Gentrification, and Ephethereal Justice	0
Posthuman Rap	0
Undaunted: Into the Open, Raging Asian Womxn Taiko Drummers	0
“The Leaves of Our Flag Surrounding the World”: Barbara B. Smith and the Sovereign Voices of a Pacific Trust Territory, 1958–1964	0
Tuning Species: Gibbon Conservation and the Acoustemological Politics of Vitality	0
Sonic Space-Making on the Margins of Power: Electronic Music, Agency, and Alternative Belonging in the Republic of Macedonia (2011–2014)	0
Following the People, Refracting Hindustani Music, and Critiquing Genre-Based Research	0
On Survival	0
Hindi Film Songs in the Home: Gendered Experiences of Singing Popular Songs in Tamale, Northern Ghana	0
Musical Evolution and the Other: From State-Sponsored Musical Evolutionism in the USSR to Post-Soviet Crimean Tatar Indigenous Music	0
Instruments of Empire: Filipino Musicians, Black Soldiers, and Military Band Music during US Colonization of the Philippines	0
Gendhing Sekaten. (2010) 2020Gendhing Pahargyan. (2012) 2020Gendhing Kurmat Dalem. 2020Gendhing Gati. (2015) 2020Gendhing Gati Volume 2. 2020Gendhing Soran Volume 1. 2021	0
Summer of Soul	0
Matrix Listening; or, What and How We Can Learn from Historical Sound Recordings	0
“Systems Are Changeable”: Reading Moments through Movements	0
A Humble Blind Singer's Autobiographical Song: Oral Creation Facing a Hong Kong Teahouse Audience	0
Notes on Contributing Authors	0
Sounding the Vernacular Sea	0
Ugly Publics	0
From the Editor	0
Listening to Kora in New York City: Constructing Africa and Blackness in the United States	0
Congregational Music, Conflict and Community	0
Seeger Lecture, Society for Ethnomusicology Virtual Meeting 2021	0
“Really, We Should Have Been Playing Saz in a Little Room”: “New Wave” Turkish Migrants, Performance, and Counterpathways of Incorporation in Berlin	0
Notes on Contributing Authors	0
Post-Tarab: Music and Affective Politics in the US SWANA Diaspora	0
Music of Azerbaijan: From Mugham to Opera	0
Let No Man Judge: Remembering the Calypsonian and Containing Risk	0
From the Editor	0
The Oxford Handbook of Musical Repatriation	0
Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam	0
Inside Arabic Music: Arabic Maqam Performance and Theory in the 20th Century	0
From Clave Ethnotheory to Clave Theories: A Path Toward Decolonizing Musical Analysis	0
From the Editor	0
The Sound of Navajo Country: Music, Language, and Diné Belonging	0
From the Editor	0
FromSatsaṅgto Stage: Negotiating Aesthetic Theologies and Aspirational Subjectivities in a North IndianBhajanCompetition	0
More than Gold: Embodying the Human Cost of Mining in Maroon Popular Music	0
Music, Seduction, and New Beginnings: The Ikorodo Maiden Dance of Nsukka	0
On the Decolonial Otherwise of Translation: Alexander J. Ellis, Mário de Andrade, and the Contingency of Form	0
Beyoncé: At Work, On Screen, and Online	0
Tabom in Bahia	0
Curtain Up	0
Recitations on the Threshold: The Ethics and Virtue Affects of Pakistani ShiʿiQaṣīda	0
Moving Bodies, Navigating Conflict: Practicing Bharata Natyam in Colombo, Sri Lanka	0