Publication Announcement: Rising Voices 21.2 – “Ethnomusicology Now” Publication Notice

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the publication of our most recent issue of Rising Voices in Ethnomusicology: A Student Journal, “21.2 – Ethnomusicology Now.” We received our largest-ever response to our Call for Submissions for this issue, and are pleased to present the work of students representing a broad range of contemporary topics and theoretical perspectives in our field. The digital version, which includes links to PDF versions of the articles, can be found here.

Stay tuned for our next CFS on the topic of “labor, music, and the job market” as well as CFAs for associate editor positions, to be announced shortly.

Table of Contents:
-Letter from the Editors, by Garrett Groesbeck, Mark Hsiang-Yu Feng, and Timothy Yu
-Dear SEM: The Current Crisis and Future of Ethnomusicology, by Matt Sakakeeny
-News and Announcements: Online Release of the Ethnomusicological Documentary Hopa lide, by Petr Nuska

Graduate Student Articles
-Sounding Out the S/M/Othering: Turning an Ethnomusicological Ear to Musicking amongst People with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities (PIMD), by Kate Adams
-From Silence to Sound: Iranian Women Musicking under Suppression and after Migration, by Kimia Fakharinia
Sketches towards The Study of Sonic (Im)materialities, by Savannah Rose Ridley
-‘Corridos as Citizen Diplomacy: Cultural Impact of Corridos in The U.S.-Mexico Border Regions, by Kevin Perez
-“If You Can Pay Rent, You’re Successful”: Transforming Success for Classical Singers, by Samuel Harrison-Oram
-The Shape of Musicology to Come: A Case Study of Institutional Gatekeeping Through Graduate Assessment, by Holland Rhodd-Lee
-Hypothetical Concert: Presence, Absence, and the Politics of Iranian Musical Performance, by Mohammad Moridvand
-Music as Entanglement: Songettes toward a Posthuman Ethnomusicology, by Rong Nie
-The Researcher and The Rail Replacement Bus: Reflections on The Embodied Fieldwork State, by Rebecca Parnell
-Finding Identity through Anime: The Solace, Sonority, and Soul of Cowboy Bebop, by Kieran Casey

Undergraduate Student Article
Harmonies of Heritage and Trauma: Music, Generational Divide, and Identity in Japanese American Internment Camps, by Bryden Reeves

Creative Submissions

-“Returning to Its Nest”: Capturing the Spirit of Isan Music with Classical Guitar
Sirisan Sobhanasiri & Chawin Temsittichok
-The Gondang’s Voice: An Excerpt Dialogue with Aliman Tua Limbong about Music for the Toba Batak Mangongkal Holi ritual in North Sumatera, Indonesia, by Edy Rapika Panjaitan

Garrett Groesbeck, Mark Hsiang-Yu Feng, and Timothy Yu
Editors, Rising Voices in Ethnomusicology