Tina K. Ramnarine

Historical Representations, Performance Spaces, and Kinship Themes in Indian-Caribbean Popular Song Texts

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William P. Malm

Yamada Shotaro: Japan's first Shamisen Professor

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Jarkko Niemi

The Genres of the Nenets Songs

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Margaret J. Kartomi

The Music-culture of South-coast West Sumatra: Backwater of the Minangkabau "Heartland" or Home of the Sacred Mermaid and the Earth Goddess?

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Dwight Reynolds

Virginia Danielson. The Voice of Egypt: Umm Kulthum, Arabic Song, and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century.

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Su Zheng

Casey Man Kong Lum. In Search of a Voice: Karaoke and the Constitution of Identity in Chinese America.

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Evan Ziporyn

Heidi Von Gunden. The Music of Lou Harrison.

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Marc Perlman

Gamelan Pacifica. Trance Gong.

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Gordon Thompson

Latif Ahmed Khan. A Tribute to Latif Ahmed Khan.

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Richard Wolf

Ashwin Batish, Shiv Dayal Batish, and David Harnish. Sitar Power II.

L. Shankar, Zakir Hussain, and Vikku Vinayakram. Shankar — Raga Aberi.

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Cynthia Wong

Dayan Ancient Music Association. Naxi Music from Lijiang.

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Henry Spiller

Philip Yampolskky (recording, compiling, and annotation). Betawi and Sundanese Music of the North Coast of Java.

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