OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Give us a voice!’: voice, envoicement, and the politics of ‘world music’ at WOMAD	6
Towards practice research in ethnomusicology	4
Shouting the Qur’an: exuberance and playfulness in the taḥzzabt – collective recitation – in Morocco	3
Jali popular song and conflict mediation in the aftermath of the Gambia’s 2016 election	2
Fieldwork with the family: the art of adaptation	2
Music as a Third Space? – African musics as a field of collaboration in Finland	2
Rethinking the decolonial moment through collaborative practices at the International Library of African Music (ILAM), South Africa	2
‘In heavy rotation’: uncovering the phonographic industry and the ‘NGOMA national label’ in socialist Mozambique (1978–1990)	2
Migration, music and the mobile phone: a case study in technology and socio-economic justice in Sicily	2
Parenting and Music Studies Forum	2
Special issue: Decolonising music and music studies	2
Uṟumi Mēḷam: a musical sanctuary for at-risk Tamil youth in Singapore	1
Social imaginary and musical persuasion in twenty-first century China: a partial ethnography of ‘floating’ migrant music	1
Mapping with/in: hearing power in Yokuts landscapes at the beginning of the twentieth century	1
A collaborative approach to revitalisation and the repatriation of isiXhosa music recordings archived at the International Library of African Music (ILAM) in South Africa	1
Higher music education, India and ethnography: a case study of KM music conservatory students	1
Mousikeor music? Using analysis to explore shifts in musical attention	1
‘It’s a part of me and I’m a part of it’: ecological thinking in contemporary Scottish folk music	1
The making of a successful Chinese instrumentalist in the West: a case study of the pipa player Wu Man	1
Whosedecolonisation? Checking for intersectionality, lane-policing and academic privilege from a transnational (Chinese) vantage point	1
Making the most of circumstances: reflecting on the experience of two ethnomusicologist parents	1
Centring embodied practice in African music studies: creative alternatives	1
Experimental electronic sound as playful articulation of a compromised sociality in Iran	1
Reshaping our musical values: decolonising teaching and curricular frameworks in the Eastern Cape	1
A cry for Palestine: vocal practice and imaginaries of Palestinian-ness among Chilean football supporters of Club Deportivo Palestino	1

Swimming upstream: balancing motherhood, academia and well-intentioned policies	1
From Belfast to the Somme (and back again): loyalist paramilitaries, political song, and reverberations of violence	1
Loss of place, loss of self: musical heterotopias in Franco’s prisons (1938–1945)	0
Tobar an Dualchais/Kist o Riches	0
Editorial	0
Inside the Yiddish Folksong	0
Making subjects grievable: narco rap, moral ambivalence and ethical sense making	0
Piercing the structure of tradition: flute performance, continuity, and freedom in the music of Noh drama	0
Crossing over the Arirang Pass: Zainichi Korean music.	0
Auld Lang Syne: a song and its culture	0
The political evolution of gaita zuliana in Venezuela: 1969–2019	0
Musical trail-making in Southern Appalachia	0
Editorial	0
Extreme exoticism: Japan in the American musical imagination	0
Ulutun : sound, materiality and power in a Mapuche ritual	0
Engaging creatively with a traditional soundscape: goat bells—from landscape to performance	0
Musical minorities: the sounds of Hmong ethnicity in Northern Vietnam	0
Sounds of vacation: political economies of Caribbean tourism	0
Malian music ‘made in France’: postcolonial relationships through world music festivals and ‘transcultural creations’	0
Parading respectability: the cultural and moral aesthetics of the Christmas bands movement in the Western Cape, South Africa	0
Musicians in crisis: working and playing in the Greek popular music industry	0
Sounding dissent: rebel songs, resistance, and Irish republicanism	0
Music career and sustainability: the strategies of a hiplife musician	0
African musics in Europe	0
The folk: music, modernity, and the political imagination	0
In search of Bidesia	0
Quietude: a musical anthropology of “Korea’s Hiroshima” Quietude: a musical anthropology of “Korea’s Hiroshima” , by Joshua D. Pilzer, New York, Oxford University Press,	0
Pop goes the postcolony: Britain remixes Hugh Tracey’s Malawi	0
The ancient English morris dance The ancient English morris dance , by Michael Heaney, Oxford, Archaeopress, 2023, 517 pp., £29.99 (pbk), ISBN 978-1-80327-386-0. [Also a	0
Introduction	0
A view from below: some thoughts on musicology and EDI work as acts of care	0
Editorial	0
From the horse’s mouth: musical ‘originality’ in freestyle dressage	0
Musical resilience strategies for African asylum seekers in Italy: the cultural mediator Bawa Salifu	0
Editorial	0
Zakarpattia	0
Decolonising Andean and Peruvian music: a view from within	0
‘A whole society, with its own economic system’: the reciprocal and capitalist configurations of American DIY music scenes	0
Signs of the spirit: music and the experience of meaning in Ndau ceremonial life	0
Professor Daddy has a zebra on his head	0
Making music Indigenous: popular music in the Peruvian Andes	0
Authors and burners: imagining creative agency in Turkey’s musical folklore	0
Across the Pacific: the strategic citizenship of Chinese musicians	0
Musical sustainability vis-à-vis intangible cultural heritage: safeguarding and incentives in the Feast of the Virgin of Candelaria, Puno, Perú	0
Dust to Digital	0
Editorial	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
The musical human: a history of life on earth	0
Hearing Brazil. Music and histories in Minas Gerais	0

The Hizz Collective: acoustic disruption and claiming space in the Cairo soundscape	0
Intercultural creativity in the Nigerian-Igbo art music of Okechukwu Ndubuisi	0
Much more than ‘Danny Boy’: bringing Irish traditional music to the USA	0
‘I thought it was a song but it turned out to be a siren’: civilian listening during wartime in Israel	0
Thai musicology in context: epistemic disparities in Thai and western ways of knowing Thai music	0
Audiovisual ethnomusicology: filming musical cultures	0
Thought and play in musical rhythm: Asian, African, and Euro-American perspectives	0
Editorial	0
Yusef Lateef, Islam, and jazz	0
Performing environmentalisms: expressive culture and ecological change	0
Dialogues: towards decolonising music and dance studies Dialogues: towards decolonising music and dance studies , edited by Tan Sooi Beng & Marcia Ostashewski (Eds),	0
Emerging from the wilderness: the challenges of re-establishing a career in ethnomusicology after having children	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
Valuing and evaluating musical practice as research in ethnomusicology and its implications for research assessment	0
Sekuru’s stories	0
Analysing Indian Ocean’s Kandisa: a dialogue with decolonisation	0
Consensus process in the decision-making of a North American alternative brass band	0
Ngonsoeng jyugo/Anshang yuge [Ballad on the Shore]	0
The contrasto : observational analysis of an extemporaneous vocal-gestural performance in Tuscany, Italy	0
Songs for ‘great leaders’: ideology and creativity in North Korean music and dance	0
‘The house of the Irish’: African migrant musicians and the creation of diasporic space at night	0
Rahayu Supanggah: the legacy of an Indonesian and global composer	0
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
Sāraṅgī style in Hindustani music	0
Mindful playing: a practice research investigation into shakuhachi playing and meditation	0
Music and sound in times of violence, displacement and conflict	0
Editorial	0
Sounding Jewish in Berlin: klezmer music and the contemporary city	0
Sideways nostalgia, adopted republicanism and the performance of Irish rebel songs in the GDR	0
Brithop: the politics of UK rap in the new century	0
Hungry listening: resonant theory for indigenous sound studies	0
Turkish Folk music between Ghent and Turkey: context, performance, function	0
‘Barrister is Fújì and Fújì is Barrister’: Fújì music, self-making and the politics of genre-making in Lagos, Nigeria	0
Celtic music and dance in Cornwall: cornu-copia	0
Scottish dance beyond 1805: reaction and regulation	0
Outside the house, there are no laws: musical practice and ritual dynamics at Shona kurova guva ceremonies	0
Movement of the people: Hungarian folk dance, populism, and citizenship	0
Different affects? Intercepting orientalism through the affective encounters and ritualised mediations of a Shin Buddhist chanting tradition	0
Conflict after conflict: music in the memorialisation of the Gallipoli Campaign	0
Sonic witnesses: music, testimony, and truth	0
Sound objects	0
Historically informed performance: songs embedded in ǀXam stories	0
Editorial	0
‘You are part of the club’: negotiating the field as a musician–ethnomusicologist	0
Organonscape, geography, and aural spaces of kemençe in and around Trabzon	0
Culturally sustaining pedagogies in music education: expanding culturally responsive teaching to sustain diverse musical cultures and identities	0
Mother in the field, toddler on the loose: finding our feet in a Vaishnavite monastery in Assam	0
Editorial	0
Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam	0
Teaching ethnomusicology in times of trouble: a perspective from Johannesburg, South Africa	0
‘Imagined Balkans’ meets ‘imagined Africa’: the contemporary practice of jembe drumming in Serbia	0
Teaching with hip hop in the 7–12 grade classroom: a guide to supporting students’ critical development through popular texts Teaching with hip hop in the 7–12 grade classroom: a guide	0
Staged folklore: the National Folk Theatre of Ireland 1968–1998	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
Violeta Parra: musical and political legacy of a cantora	0
Love and rage: autonomy in Mexico City’s punk scene Love and rage: autonomy in Mexico City’s punk scene , by Kelley Tatro, Middletown, Wesleyan University Press, 2022, 2	0
Song walking: women, music, and environmental justice in an African borderland	0
Towards decolonial pedagogies of world music	0
British ethnomusicology in the #BlackLivesMatter era: some (auto-ethnographic) reflections	0
Editorial	0
Sounds from the other side: Afro-South Asian collaborations in Black popular music	0
Special Issue: African musics in Europe	0
The art of appreciation: music and middlebrow culture in modern Britain	0
Decomposed: the political ecology of music	0
Whosejembe? A drum as a countercultural icon and a symbol of African authenticity in Zagreb	0
When the trees resound. Collaborative media research on an Italian festival	0
Sailor song: the shanties and ballads of the high seas; Boxing the compass: a century and a half of discourse about sailor's chanties	0
A musico-choreographic analysis of a Cuban dance routine: a performance-informed approach	0
Improvising sabor: Cuban dance music in New York	0