John Brackett, University of Utah[1] A number of individuals offered helpful comments, criticisms, and suggestions on earlier versions of this essay. I would especially like to thank (in...
Read MorePaul Christiansen, University of Southern Maine[1]This article is a much-expanded version of a paper entitled “Was Janáček Obsessed?” that I delivered at the musicology conference of the...
Read MoreCapturing Sound: How Technology has Changed Music by Mark Katz. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004. [xxi, 276p. plus one CD ISBN: 0-520-24380-3 $19.95...
Read MoreAlan Lomax: Selected Writings 1934-1997, edited by Ronald D. Cohen. New York: Routledge, 2005. [384 p. ISBN 415938546 $28.50 (hardcover)]
Read MoreListening to Reason: Culture, Subjectivity, and Nineteenth-Century Music, by Michael P. Steinberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. [xiv, 246 p. ISBN 0691116857 $29.95 (cloth)] Music in the...
Read MoreThe valleys of Nepal, like valleys anywhere, are echo chambers. Sounds that are made in a valley reverberate and echo, linger for a while, and mix together.[1]This...
Read MoreThis interview is the first in a new series entitled Primary Sources, in which Echo: A Music-Centered Journal will make available original material that would not otherwise be accessible on...
Read MoreWe must develop a systematic intervention based on the complex factors of two components in perpetual interaction: the material environment of life and the behaviours which it...
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