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Michele Esposito (2010)
Book
Dibble, J. (2010). Michele Esposito. Field Day Publications

Jeremy Dibble skillfully reconstructs the life and career of Michele Esposito, a figure of seminal importance in the history of Irish music of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Neapolitan by birth and education, Esposito moved to Dub... Read More about Michele Esposito.

Contesti e pratiche di performance del bhangra in Punjab e nella diaspora (2010)
Journal Article
Leante, L. (2010). Contesti e pratiche di performance del bhangra in Punjab e nella diaspora

Il bhangra sembra avere avuto origine nella regione del Punjab che corrisponde all’attuale area nord-orientale del Pakistan, dove una danza rurale con questo nome era diffusa nella prima metà del ventesimo secolo. Tuttavia, oggi il termine “bhangra”... Read More about Contesti e pratiche di performance del bhangra in Punjab e nella diaspora.

Die Kammersängerin -21 Lieder, 3 ohne Worte - for high soprano and ensemble, on poems by Ernst Jandl (2010)
Other
Rijnvos, R. (2010). Die Kammersängerin -21 Lieder, 3 ohne Worte - for high soprano and ensemble, on poems by Ernst Jandl. [score]

Morning. The Kammersängerin slumbers and listens to her breath. The eyes are hearing, the ears are seeing. Her mouth opens and closes again. In it lives the tongue with her all-round role. Ears come in pairs, as do cheeks, thumbs, and feet, the navel... Read More about Die Kammersängerin -21 Lieder, 3 ohne Worte - for high soprano and ensemble, on poems by Ernst Jandl.

Gestures in performance (2009)
Book Chapter
Dahl, S., Bevilacqua, F., Bresin, R., Clayton, M., Leante, L., Poggi, I., & Rasamimanana, N. (2009). Gestures in performance. In R. I. Godoy, & M. Leman (Eds.), Musical gestures : sound, movement, and meaning (36-68). Routledge

The Lotus and the King: Imagery, Gesture and Meaning in a Hindustani Rāg (2009)
Journal Article
Leante, L. (2009). The Lotus and the King: Imagery, Gesture and Meaning in a Hindustani Rāg. Ethnomusicology Forum, 18(2), 185-206. https://doi.org/10.1080/17411910903141874

This article brings together investigation of gesture and imagery in the study of North Indian classical music, focusing on a particular rāg—Śrī rāg—in detail. The research, based on extensive ethnography and analysis of audiovisual recordings, revea... Read More about The Lotus and the King: Imagery, Gesture and Meaning in a Hindustani Rāg.

Urban Myth: bhangra and the dhol craze in the UK (2009)
Book Chapter
Leante, L. (2009). Urban Myth: bhangra and the dhol craze in the UK. In B. Clausen, U. Hemetek, & E. Saether (Eds.), Music in motion : diversity and dialogue in Europe (191-207). Transcript Verlag

Bhangra is believed to have originated in Western Punjab (in today’s Pakistan) as a rural male dance performed to the rhythm of the dhol, a large double-headed barrel drum, to celebrate the spring harvest. Soon after Indian Partition in 1947 and foll... Read More about Urban Myth: bhangra and the dhol craze in the UK.

Crossing Boundaries and Bridging Gaps: thoughts on relationships between ethnomusicology and music psychology (2009)
Journal Article
Clayton, M. (2009). Crossing Boundaries and Bridging Gaps: thoughts on relationships between ethnomusicology and music psychology. Empirical Musicology Review, 4(2), 75-77

Judith Becker’s contribution highlights the timely issue of interdisciplinary interaction between ethnomusicology and music psychology, with its attendant opportunities and difficulties. My response aims to first of all place this issue in the histor... Read More about Crossing Boundaries and Bridging Gaps: thoughts on relationships between ethnomusicology and music psychology.

Orality and Rhetoric in Scelsi's Music (2009)
Journal Article
Dickson, I. (2009). Orality and Rhetoric in Scelsi's Music. Twentieth-Century Music, 6(01), 23-41. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1478572210000046

In his later music Giacinto Scelsi rejected the mediation of notation, improvising his works and viewing the scores, produced mostly by assistants, as a mere record. But to what extent did he really transcend the ‘tyranny of writing’ and how might on... Read More about Orality and Rhetoric in Scelsi's Music.

"Loathsome London": Ruskin, Morris, and Henry Davey's History of English Music (1895) (2009)
Journal Article
Zon, B. (2009). "Loathsome London": Ruskin, Morris, and Henry Davey's History of English Music (1895). Victorian Literature and Culture, 37(2), 359-375. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1060150309090238

The dystopia of the Victorian city is ubiquitous as a trope of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature, appearing across a wide array of literature in fiction, poetry, pamphlets, articles, reviews, socio-demographic works, socialist tracts... Read More about "Loathsome London": Ruskin, Morris, and Henry Davey's History of English Music (1895).