OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Ethnomusicology Forum 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
Thai musicology in context: epistemic disparities in Thai and western ways of knowing Thai music	6
Ulutun : sound, materiality and power in a Mapuche ritual	4
Editorial	4
Music as a Third Space? – African musics as a field of collaboration in Finland	4
The contested legacy of Rabindrasangīt : musical nationalism, political symbolism, and the shaping of Bangladesh’s cultural identity	3
Mousikeor music? Using analysis to explore shifts in musical attention	2
‘You are part of the club’: negotiating the field as a musician–ethnomusicologist	2
Shaping sound and society: the cultural study of musical instruments	2
Loss of place, loss of self: musical heterotopias in Franco’s prisons (1938–1945)	2
From Rumi to the whirling dervishes: music, poetry, and mysticism in the Ottoman Empire	2
‘Barrister is Fújì and Fújì is Barrister’: Fújì music, self-making and the politics of genre-making in Lagos, Nigeria	2
The making of a successful Chinese instrumentalist in the West: a case study of the pipa player Wu Man	2
Engaging creatively with a traditional soundscape: goat bells—from landscape to performance	1
Mindful playing: a practice research investigation into shakuhachi playing and meditation	1
Teaching with hip hop in the 7–12 grade classroom: a guide to supporting students’ critical development through popular texts	1
In search of Bidesia	1
Editorial	1
Historically informed performance: songs embedded in ǀXam stories	1
Quietude: a musical anthropology of ‘Korea's Hiroshima’	1
Organonscape, geography, and aural spaces of kemençe in and around Trabzon	1
‘Is this song a rebel song?’: Republican legitimacy and the contested narratives of the Irish revolutionary soundscape	1
Voices of Vietnam: a century of radio, red music, and revolution Voices of Vietnam: a century of radio, red music, and revolution by Lonán Ó Briain, Oxford, Oxford Unive	0
‘In heavy rotation’: uncovering the phonographic industry and the ‘NGOMA national label’ in socialist Mozambique (1978–1990)	0
Approaching tchakare players within the cultural attaché network: postcolonial agency and national identity	0
Kèjhungan: the lilting song and overlapping of women’s bodies at tayub performances in Pandalungan	0

Centring embodied practice in African music studies: creative alternatives	0
Celtic music and dance in Cornwall: cornu-copia	0
Listening to the fur trade: soundways and music in the British North American fur trade 1760–1840 Listening to the fur trade: soundways and music in the British North American fur trade	0
Turkish Folk music between Ghent and Turkey: context, performance, function	0
Intangible heritage system: challenges of culture preservation in a cross-cultural perspective	0
Editorial	0
Love and rage: autonomy in Mexico City’s punk scene	0
The art of appreciation: music and middlebrow culture in modern Britain	0
SanDance! : a journey to the heart of Africa's San dance culture	0
Dialogues: towards decolonising music and dance studies	0
The folk: music, modernity, and the political imagination	0
Songs of Tagore: poetry and melody	0
Tobar an Dualchais/Kist o Riches	0
The ancient English morris dance	0
We know who they are, because of what they sing: Miao song taxonomy in Fenghuang county, China	0
Walkin’ blues: exploring the semiotic musicscape of Rory Gallagher’s Cork City	0
Orientalism, Arab Jewish identity(ies) and modernity in British Mandate Palestine viewed through the archive of master musician Azuri Effendi/Ezra Aharon	0
Editorial	0
Original ecology folksongs, myth, and showbiz: a case study of musical sustainability among the Bulang ethnic group in Yunnan, China	0
In search of common ground: landscape and place-identity in contemporary British folk	0
Music and the making of Portugal and Spain: nationalism and identity politics in the Iberian Peninsula	0
Auld Lang Syne: a song and its culture	0
Negotiated leadership in Sacred Harp singing	0
Malian music ‘made in France’: postcolonial relationships through world music festivals and ‘transcultural creations’	0
Performing environmentalisms: expressive culture and ecological change	0
Songs and female names in contemporary Nigeria: a mother’s prayer or men’s muse?	0
‘Imagined Balkans’ meets ‘imagined Africa’: the contemporary practice of jembe drumming in Serbia	0
Introduction	0
Inside the Yiddish Folksong	0
African musics in Europe	0
Das Revival der traditionellen gälischen Musik Schottlands: Die Bands Runrig und Capercaillie	0
Yusef Lateef, Islam, and jazz	0
Editorial	0
Ngonsoeng jyugo/Anshang yuge [Ballad on the Shore]	0
Musical sustainability vis-à-vis intangible cultural heritage: safeguarding and incentives in the Feast of the Virgin of Candelaria, Puno, Perú	0
Editorial	0
The contrasto : observational analysis of an extemporaneous vocal-gestural performance in Tuscany, Italy	0
Music career and sustainability: the strategies of a hiplife musician	0
Piercing the structure of tradition: flute performance, continuity, and freedom in the music of Noh drama	0
Pop goes the postcolony: Britain remixes Hugh Tracey’s Malawi	0
Valuing and evaluating musical practice as research in ethnomusicology and its implications for research assessment	0
Editorial	0
Different affects? Intercepting orientalism through the affective encounters and ritualised mediations of a Shin Buddhist chanting tradition	0
Cry with the Promised Land: singing for nationalist and religious environmentalism amid Burma’s war	0
Staged folklore: the National Folk Theatre of Ireland 1968–1998	0
Across the Pacific: the strategic citizenship of Chinese musicians	0
Everyday musical life among the Indigenous Bunun, Taiwan	0
Rahayu Supanggah: the legacy of an Indonesian and global composer	0
Musical resilience strategies for African asylum seekers in Italy: the cultural mediator Bawa Salifu	0
Sing and sing on: sentinel musicians and the making of the Ethiopian American diaspora Sing and sing on: sentinel musicians and the making of the Ethiopian American diaspora	0

Editorial	0
‘Give us a voice!’: voice, envoicement, and the politics of ‘world music’ at WOMAD	0
Sounds of other shores: the musical poetics of identity on Kenya’s Swahili coast	0
Made in Nusantara: studies in popular music	0
Jaww: conceptualising Tunisian musical air	0
Intercultural creativity in the Nigerian-Igbo art music of Okechukwu Ndubuisi	0
Social and emotional wellbeing in an Australian choir of people with disabilities	0
Sāraṅgī style in Hindustani music	0
Movement of the people: Hungarian folk dance, populism, and citizenship	0
Education, music, and the lives of undergraduates: collegiate a cappella and the pursuit of happiness	0
Studies on a global history of music: a Balzan musicology project Studies on a global history of music: a Balzan musicology project , edited by Reinhard Strohm, London a	0
‘A whole society, with its own economic system’: the reciprocal and capitalist configurations of American DIY music scenes	0
Identity, migration, and performance: overseas Chinese community music in contemporary New Zealand	0
Authors and burners: imagining creative agency in Turkey’s musical folklore	0
Editorial	0
Musicians in crisis: working and playing in the Greek popular music industry	0
Haitian musical activism in Brazil during the Covid-19 pandemic: engaging SARS-Cov2 and racialized regimes of mobility through song	0
Django under the Nazis: resistance, subversion, and Romani stereotyping in popular media	0
Sounding Jewish in Berlin: klezmer music and the contemporary city	0
Consensus process in the decision-making of a North American alternative brass band	0
Special Issue: African musics in Europe	0
Sounds, ecologies, musics	0
Skopeofonia in the field: ways of worldmaking through music in a Cape Verdean neighbourhood in Lisbon	0
Drones, tones, and timbres: sounding place among nomads of the inner Asian mountain-steppes	0
Femininity reinterpreted: an ethnographic study of women's folk speech in kajarī folk song	0
Much more than ‘Danny Boy’: bringing Irish traditional music to the USA	0
Whosejembe? A drum as a countercultural icon and a symbol of African authenticity in Zagreb	0
Hearing Brazil. Music and histories in Minas Gerais	0
In pursuit of a sound future: industriousness in Maltese popular songs of the 1970s	0
Culturally sustaining pedagogies in music education: expanding culturally responsive teaching to sustain diverse musical cultures and identities	0