Ensembles in the Contemporary Korean Soundscape: Foreword
Keith Howard:
SamulNori: Korean Drums (and Gongs) of Affection
Dong-eun Noh:
North Korea's Minjok Orchestra: Reform and Communication
Mikyung Park:
Modern Orchestra of Korean Instruments from Its Birth to the Present: A Critical Survey
Hee-sun Kim:
Performing History and Imagining the Past: Re-contextualization of Court Ensembles in Contemporary South Korea
Jocelyn Collette Clark:
Searching for a Niche without a Genre: The Case of the Multi-National East Asian Traditional New Music Ensemble IIIZ+
Hilary Vanessa Finchum-Sung:
Designing a Fresh Tradition: Young Kugak and Sonic Imaginings for a Progressive Korea
Book Reviews (Helena Simonett, ed.)
Kirsty Gillespie: Richard Moyle, Songs from the Second Float: A Musical Ethnography of Taku Atoll, Papua New Guinea
Hwee-San Tan: Tong Soon Lee, Chinese Street Opera in Singapore
Ken Bilby: Raquel Z. Rivera, Wayne Marshall, and Deborah Pacini Hernadnez (eds.), Reggaeton
Alejandro L. Madrid: Cathy Ragland, Música Norteña: Mexican Migrants Creating a Nation between Nations
Trevor Wiggins: Steven M. Friedson, Remains of Ritual: Northern Gods in a Southern Land
and: James Burns, Female Voices from an Ewe Dance-Drumming Community in Ghana: Our Music Has Become a Divine Spirit
Ajay Heble: Gabriel Solis and Bruno Nettl (eds.), Musical Improvisation: Art, Education, and Society
Steven Spinner: Aaron L. Berkowitz, The Improvising Mind: Cognition and Creativity in the Musical Moment
Jim Lovensheimer: John Koegel, Music in German Immigrant Theater: New York City, 1840–1940
Frank Gunderson: Marissa J. Moorman, Intonations: A Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to Recent Times
Ted Solís: Huib Schippers, Facing the Music: Shaping Music Education from a Global Perspective
Eliot Bates: Martin Stokes, The Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music
Ching-Yi Chen: Su Zheng, Claiming Diaspora: Music, Transnationalism, and Cultural Politics in Asian/Chinese America
and: Marc L. Moskowitz, Cries of Joy, Songs of Sorrow: Chinese Pop Music and Its Cultural Connotations
Jun Yon Hwang: Andrew Killick, In Search of Korean Traditional Opera: Discourses of Ch’angguk
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Recording Reviews (Dan Bendrups, ed.)
Kerrin Hancock: Kulmus Hanefesh: A Musical Journey into the Hassidic Niggun. The Hebrew University, Faculty of Humanities, Jewish Music Research Centre in collaboration with the National Library of Israel (2009)
Dan Bendrups: Michael Tenzer Let Others Name You, New World Records 80697-2 (2009)
Peter Dunbar-Hall:Terompong Beruk: Le gamelan de Bangle. AIMP XCIX, VDE CD-1331 (2011), Archives internationales de musique populaire, Musee d’ethnographie (MEG) Geneve
Website Reviews (Frances Wilkins, ed.)
Patricia Ballantyne: Music: Cape Breton’s Unity in Diversity, http://beatoninstitutemusic.ca
Simon Keegan-Phipps: Take Six, http://library.efdss.org/archives/
Christine Dettmann: British Library Archival Sound Recordings: World and Traditional Music, http://sounds.bl.uk
Davide Torri: The Travelling Archive, http://www.thetravellingarchive.org
Britta Sweers: London Sound Survey, http://www.soundsurvey.org.uk