This dissertation examines differences in affective response to music among players of Appalachian old-time music, primarily in Appalachian Virginia and North Carolina. While a small …
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of contemporary Kaapse klopse (“Clubs of the Cape”) practice in Cape Town, South Africa. Situating sound and embodied practice …
This dissertation examines African and Afro-diasporic music in the contemporary world music industry. It looks specifically at Orchestra Baobab and AfroCubism, two world music bands …
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the recent emergence of the phenomenon of women’s drumming in postcolonial West Africa through the lens of Ewe …