Browse: Duke University Press (publisher), Folk & World

[T]hought-provoking. . . ." -- Clive Bell — The Wire More…

What's truly impressive is the scope of the whole work which, while it devotes a little space to blues and jazz, is basically about all of the rest of the African-derived music we hear from around... — Jazzwise More…

Aurality is a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of sound studies. Ana Maria Ochoa Gautier adeptly guides the reader across complex scales of analysis using well-selected historical... — American Ethnologist More…

Licia Fiol-Matta has written a marvelous exploration of the voice. In the process, she assembles a vocal archive of Puerto Rican performers whose labor is usually relegated to footnotes or cursory... — Journal of Popular Music Studies More…

Soundtracks of Asian America is an extremely articulate, insightful investigation of racial imagination as it relates to Asian Americans and Asian diasporas. . . . Highly recommended. Upper-division... — Choice More…

Recalling Smita Tiwari Jassal's own ancestral roots in this rural region, I see this lovingly researched book as embodying one such way of remembering, reframing, and transmitting songs into... — Journal of Folklore Research More…

Thanks to his command of cultural, social, and historical contexts and deftness in illuminating and interpreting the dialectic between musicians and the forces of transnationalism and globalization,... — Choice More…