Roots and Branches of the European Network of Guided Imagery and Music (ENGIM) by Margareta Wärja

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The Avant-Garde Roots of Video Game Music and Algorithmic Culture by Gabriele

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Shape Notes, Gospels and Spirituals: Rediscovering Spirituality in the 21st Century by Irena Přibylová

“…In the following lines I would like to show where modern roots and limits of this interest are and what challenges the Czechs have had in facing the perception of American sacred music after 1989. …”
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“The Noise of Our Living”: Richard Wright and Chicago Blues by Jeff Wimble

“…Utilizing biographical details of the life of Muddy Waters, I show how his work as a musician in Mississippi, then in Chicago, and his development of an electrified blues style, parallels and personifies the shift from an African American perspective rooted in an agrarian, pre-modern south to an industrial, modern north documented so effectively by Wright. …”
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African-American Music in the Service of White Nationalists: Polish “Patriotic Rap” as a Pop Cultural Tool to Promote National Values by Piotr Majewski

“…The first part of this article explains how rap, having become an important element of African-American culture, enabled its audience and artists to manifest and communicate their ideas, beliefs and values, including those that are rooted in the culture of black nationalism. …”
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Little Steamship on the Prairie: Grass-Roots Preservation and Artistic Interpretation in the Construction of Ethnic, Local, and National Identities by Thomas A. DuBois

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The Power of Conformity: Music, Sound, and Vision in Back to the Future by Marc Priewe

“…After an overview of the movie’s cultural contexts, the focus shifts to the interplays between sound and cinematic mise-en-scène, with a particular emphasis on popular music. I argue that the film employs music strategically in order to convey a nostalgic view of American culture and society in the 1950s by including certain songs and excluding others, as well as by a score that is deeply rooted in the traditions of Hollywood film music. …”
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Apsara Aesthetics and Belonging: On Mixed-Race Cambodian American Performance by Tiffany J. Lytle

“…I will be using examples from the work of music artist and violinist Chrysanthe Tan, theater practitioner Kalean Ung, and autoethnographic engagement with my own creative projects to show how examining the work of multi-racial Cambodian American performing artists can bring forth the complex dynamics of Cambodian diasporic cultural politics and belonging.…”
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Patriarchs, Pipers and Presidents: Gaelic Immigrant Funerary Customs and Music in North America by Barry Shears

“…Despite being deeply rooted in tradition, the music and function of this musical practice have changed over time. …”
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Backwoods: rural distance and authenticity in twentieth-century American independent folk and rock discourse by Harper, A

Art and Environmental Struggle Curating an Exhibition About Place‐Rooted Ecological Knowledge by Ellen Avril, Andrew C. Weislogel, Kate Addleman Frankel, Elizabeth Yearsley, Jumay Chu

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The making of an American orchestra: U.C. Hill and the Philharmonic in New York, 1815-1848 by Haws, BB

“…</p> <p>In addition to deciphering the opinions, politics, and worldview of Hill, for the first time this study provides a more granular accounting of the lives of early nineteenth century working musicians, something that has been recognized as lacking in the literature (Crawford and Root). Through Hill’s experiences, the focus shifts to the musicians, mostly instrumentalists, who formed a distinct musical culture and a close-knit, mutually supportive community in New York City between 1815 and 1848. …”

21M.775 Hip Hop, Spring 2003 by DeFrantz, Thomas

“…Subject explores the political and aesthetic foundations of hip hop. Students trace the musical, corporeal, visual, spoken word, and literary manifestations of hip hop over its thirty year presence in the American cultural imagery. …”
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Pianure Blues: From the Dialect of the Plains to the English of the Blues by Giovanni Nadiani, Christopher Rundle

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Too Dark to Support the Lions, But Light Enough for the Frontlines”: Negotiating Race, Place, and Nation in Afro-Finnish Hip Hop by Kelekay Jasmine Linnea

“…Prior to the 2010s, the landscape of Finnish hip hop was largely white with little engagement with race or hip hop’s roots as a Black American cultural form. This status quo was disrupted by the rise of Afro-Finnish rappers. …”
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Bossa Nova: The Reinvention and Reinvigoration of Samba in the 1950s by Martinus Helmiawan

“…In a society where music becomes the core of its people’s life, many discourses emerge and root in music. …”
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IS HUMOR A GIFT FROM GOD OR A WAY OF PUNISHMENT FROM SATAN? ‘LAUGHTER AS A SOCIAL PUNISHMENT’ AS A SANCTION OF PUNISHMENT OF SOCIAL NORMS IN AMERICAN CULTURE / MİZAH, TANRI’DAN BİR... by Gülin Öğüt EKER

“…The data selected by random sampling from American history will reveal that the person who performs the humorous act with the perspective of the Theory of Superiority does so with the sense of superiority of the self and superiority of self-perception. …”
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“I Put Myself Back in the Narrative”: Hamilton as Founders Fanfiction by Jeremy Brett

“…Hamilton represents a highly visible example of what might be called “Founders fanfiction”; although the musical is rooted deeply in historical fact, primarily via Ron Chernow’s magisterial biography of Hamilton, nonetheless, as a narrative the production is a piece of popular wish-fulfilment. …”
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Yoga and White Public Space by Rumya S. Putcha

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Editor’s Note by Tom Wetmore

“…Kirby exposes a peculiar construction of cosmopolitanism at the root of Grainger’s modes of presenting Delius to US audiences, arguing that by downplaying his European national roots, Delius and his music could be deployed as a “blank canvas” upon which Grainger could superimpose his own “developing racist ideologies.” …”
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