This dissertation concerns two interrelated areas of cultural policy in Turkey: the curation of an official broadcast repertoire of folk music at the state broadcasting …
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 examines how practitioners of capoeira Angola develop sensory knowledge as a mode of racial politics. The ethnographic study focuses on master-teacher Mestre Cláudio’s …
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 …
Drawing on fieldwork in Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay, this dissertation examines how sound mediates (anti)social and translocal relations in the soccer culture of Latin America’s …
This dissertation traces changing understandings of indigeneity in highland Peru, articulated in the ways people have adapted music alongside new media technologies over the last …