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Sean Williams teaches ethnomusicology and cultural studies at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Her interests include language, liminality, food, religion, revival, and identity; she also runs both the Ethnomusicology Writing Group and Captain Grammar Pants pages on Facebook. Her books include The Sound of the Ancestral Ship: Highland Music of West Java (Oxford, 2001); Bright Star of the West: Joe Heaney, Irish Song-Man (Oxford, 2011); The Ethnomusicologists’ Cookbook vol. I and II (Routledge, 2006 and 2016); Focus: Irish Traditional Music, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2020); and Musics of the World (Oxford, 2021).
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Bright Star of the West, 2011
Asian Music, 2011
In an impressive feat of scholarship Weiss brings together keen ethnographic observation with int... more In an impressive feat of scholarship Weiss brings together keen ethnographic observation with interpretation of literary texts, and a complex theoretical apparatus as she leads the reader to listen to traces of older Javanese musical practices. These practices are associated with ...
Current Musicology, 1997
Introduction The area of West Java, Indonesia is home to a rich variety of Sundanese performing a... more Introduction The area of West Java, Indonesia is home to a rich variety of Sundanese performing arts. The Sundanese number approximately 35 million, and are the second most numerous group in Indonesia after the Javanese.2 In the latter half of the twentieth century many of the Sundanese performing arts have shifted from being widely dispersed through the rural areas to being concentrated in the regional capital city of Bandung. Several factors have contributed to this shift toward Bandung, including the achievement of Indonesian independence from the Dutch in 1945, increased urbanization, the establishment of performing arts academies, and media influences.3 Many of the musicians and dancers still performing today have taken part in the dramatic changes that have occurred in establishing Bandung as a cultural center, and have altered their lives-and, in some cases, their ideals, through their acceptance of changing standards of performance-to reserve a place for Sundanese arts and a...
Ta na hudair buioch den Chomhairle Um Thaighde sna Dana agus sna hEolaiochtai Soisialta (CTDES IR... more Ta na hudair buioch den Chomhairle Um Thaighde sna Dana agus sna hEolaiochtai Soisialta (CTDES IRCHSS) a thacaigh leis an tionscnamh The Bright Star of the West: Joe Heaney, Irish Song Man, a bhfuil an t-alt seo bunaithe air.
Focus: Irish Traditional Music, 2020
Folklore, 2010
Reviewed Medium: book Authors: Michael A. Lange Year: 2007 Pages: 356 Publisher: The Edwin Mellen... more Reviewed Medium: book Authors: Michael A. Lange Year: 2007 Pages: 356 Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press ISBN: 978-0-7734-5362-3 (hard cover). Prices: $119.95 USD(hard cover).
Forum For Modern Language Studies, 2019
Yale Journal of Music & Religion, 2018
New Hibernia Review, 2016
New Hibernia Review, 2014
Bright Star of the West, 2011
Bright Star of the West, 2011
Oxford Handbooks Online, 2013
Bright Star of the West, 2011
Bright Star of the West, 2011
Bright Star of the West, 2011
Asian Music, 2011
In an impressive feat of scholarship Weiss brings together keen ethnographic observation with int... more In an impressive feat of scholarship Weiss brings together keen ethnographic observation with interpretation of literary texts, and a complex theoretical apparatus as she leads the reader to listen to traces of older Javanese musical practices. These practices are associated with ...
Current Musicology, 1997
Introduction The area of West Java, Indonesia is home to a rich variety of Sundanese performing a... more Introduction The area of West Java, Indonesia is home to a rich variety of Sundanese performing arts. The Sundanese number approximately 35 million, and are the second most numerous group in Indonesia after the Javanese.2 In the latter half of the twentieth century many of the Sundanese performing arts have shifted from being widely dispersed through the rural areas to being concentrated in the regional capital city of Bandung. Several factors have contributed to this shift toward Bandung, including the achievement of Indonesian independence from the Dutch in 1945, increased urbanization, the establishment of performing arts academies, and media influences.3 Many of the musicians and dancers still performing today have taken part in the dramatic changes that have occurred in establishing Bandung as a cultural center, and have altered their lives-and, in some cases, their ideals, through their acceptance of changing standards of performance-to reserve a place for Sundanese arts and a...
Ta na hudair buioch den Chomhairle Um Thaighde sna Dana agus sna hEolaiochtai Soisialta (CTDES IR... more Ta na hudair buioch den Chomhairle Um Thaighde sna Dana agus sna hEolaiochtai Soisialta (CTDES IRCHSS) a thacaigh leis an tionscnamh The Bright Star of the West: Joe Heaney, Irish Song Man, a bhfuil an t-alt seo bunaithe air.
Focus: Irish Traditional Music, 2020
Folklore, 2010
Reviewed Medium: book Authors: Michael A. Lange Year: 2007 Pages: 356 Publisher: The Edwin Mellen... more Reviewed Medium: book Authors: Michael A. Lange Year: 2007 Pages: 356 Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press ISBN: 978-0-7734-5362-3 (hard cover). Prices: $119.95 USD(hard cover).
Forum For Modern Language Studies, 2019
Yale Journal of Music & Religion, 2018
New Hibernia Review, 2016
New Hibernia Review, 2014
Bright Star of the West, 2011
Bright Star of the West, 2011
Oxford Handbooks Online, 2013
Bright Star of the West, 2011
Bright Star of the West, 2011