Literature Guide: Ethnomusicology and World Music

WCIU Journal: Cross-Cultural Communications Topic

January 7, 2021

Compiled by Timothy Skinner, MLS

(Asterisks indicate electronic books or periodicals in Latourette Library.)

Timothy Skinner, MLS, is the Librarian for William Carey International University and a member of Frontier Ventures.

Library of Congress Classification

ML 3797.6 – ML 3799  Ethnomusicology

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Ethnomusicology                                           

Folk music                                         

National music                                               

Sound recordings in ethnomusicology

Street music and musicians                           

World beat (Music)

Periodicals

African Music                                                

Asian Music

ECHO                                                            

Ethnomusicology

*Ethnomusicology Forum                             

*Ethnomusicology Review

Latin American Music Review

WCIU Journal, Cross Cultural Communications Topic

Reference Books

An Annotated Bibliography of Oceanic Music and Dance (1977)

The Encyclopedia of Folk, Country, and Western Music (1983)

The Folk Music Sourcebook (1976)

Folk Song Index: A Comprehensive Guide to the Florence E. Brunnings Collection (1981)

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, 10 vol. (1988)

Reference Books with Relevant Articles, Chapters, or Sections

All Music Guide (2001)                                 

American National Biography (1999)

Encyclopedia of Asian History (1988)          

Encyclopedia of Missions and Missionaries (2007)

Evangelical Dictionary of World Missions (2000)

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World (2008)

Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia from Angkor Wat to East Timor (2004)

Books

*Barz, Gregory F., and Timothy J. Cooley, eds. 2008. Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives

for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology. New York: Oxford University Press.

Bohlman, Philip V. 2002. World Music: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

*Dass, Rhonda, et al., eds. Over the Edge: Pushing the Boundaries of Folklore and Ethnomusicology. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

*Gibson, John Graham. 1998. Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945. Montreal:

McGill-Queen’s University Press.

*Greene, Paul D., and Thomas Porcello, eds. 2005. Wired for Sound: Engineering and

Technologies in Sonic Cultures. Wesleyan University Press.

*Kidula, Jean Ngoya, 2013. Music in Kenyan Christianity: Logooli Religious Song.

Ethnomusicology Multimedia. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

King, Roberta R. 2009. Pathways in Christian Music Communication: The Case of the Senufo of

Cote d’Ivoire. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications.

Krabill, James R. 1995. The Hymnody of the Harrist Church among the Dida of South-Central

Ivory Coast (1913-1949): A Historico-Religious Study. New York: Peter Lang.

May, Elizabeth, ed. 1980. Musics of Many Cultures: An Introduction. Los Angeles, CA:

University of California Press.

Myers, Helen, ed. 1993. Ethnomusicology: Historical and Regional Studies.

New York: W. W. Norton.

*Nettl, Bruno. 2010. Nettl’s Elephant: On the History of Ethnomusicology. Chicago: University

of Illinois Press.

*_______. 2005. The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-one Issues and Concepts. New edition.

Chicago: University of Illinois Press.

Rasmussen, Anne K. 2010. Women, the Recited Koran, and Islamic Music in Indonesia.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

*Samson, Jim. 2013. Music in the Balkans. Balkan Studies Library, 8.

Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill.

*Solis, Ted. 2004. Performing Ethnomusicology: Teaching and Representation in World Music

Ensembles. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.