SuggestedReadingsforEthnomusicologyGraduateStudents

Adorno, Theodor W. 1976. Introduction to the Sociology of Music. New York: Seabury Press.
-------. 2002. Essays on Music. Berkeley: University of California Press.
-------. 2003. Philosophy of Modern Music. New York: Continuum.
Agawu, Kofi. 2003. Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions. New
York: Routledge.
Anderson, Benedict. 1995. Imagined Communities. 2nd ed. London: Verso.
Ani, Marimba. 1994. Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and
Behavior.
Appadurai, Arjun. 1996. Modernity at Large. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Appiah, Kwame Anthony. 1992. In My Fathers House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture. New
York: Oxford University Press.
Asante, Molefi Kete. 1998. The Afrocentric Idea. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Baudrillard, Jean. 1975. The Mirror of Production. St. Louis: Telos Press.
Benitiez-Rojo, Antonio. 1996. The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern
Perspective (La isla que se repite). Translated by James E. Maraniss. Duke University Press.
Bourdieu, Pierre. 1977. Outline of a Theory of Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
-------. 1992. The Logic of Practice. Translated by Richard Nice. Stanford: Stanford University
Press.
Browner, Tara. 2002. Heartbeat of the People: Music and Dance of the Northern
Pow-Wow. University of Illinois Press.

Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy. 2003. Sidis and Scholars: Essays on African

Indians. New Delhi: Rainbow Publications and New Jersey: Africa World Press.
Chardin, Teilhard de. 1965. The Phenomenon of Man. Harper and Row.
Cheah, Pheng, and Bruce Robbins, ed. 1998. Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling Beyond the
Nation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Clifford, James. 1997. Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press.
Croce, Benedetto. 1979. Guide to Aesthetics (Brevario de estetica). Translated by Patrick
Romanell. Regnery/Gateway, Inc.

Deloria, Jr., Vine. 1988 [1969]. Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto. University of
Oklahoma Press.
DjeDje, Jacqueline Cogdell, and Eddie S. Meadows, eds. 1998. California Soul: Music of
African Americans in the West. Berkeley: University of California Press.
-------. 2008. Fiddling in West Africa: Touching the Sprit in Fulbe, Hausa, and Dagbamba
Cultures. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Durkheim, Emile. 1995 [1915]. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. A Study in Religious
Sociology. Translated with an introduction by Karen E. Fields. New York: Free Press.
Eagleton, Terry. 1976. Marxism and Literary Criticism. London: University of California Press.
Fanon, Frantz. 1963. The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press.
Fernandez Retamar, Roberto. 1989. Caliban and Other Essays. Translated by Edward
Baker). University of Minnesota.
Floyd, Samuel A. 1995. The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the
United States. New York: Oxford University Press.
Foucault, Michel. 1980. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977.
Translated by Colin Gordon. New York: Pantheon Books.
-------. 1984. The Foucault Reader. New York: Pantheon Books.
-------. 1997-2000. The Essential Works of Michel Foucault, 1954-1984. New York: New Press.
Freire, Paulo. 1985 [1970]. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Translated by Myra Bergman Ramos.
Continuum.
Freud, Sigmund. 1913. The Interpretation of Dreams. Authorized translation of 3rd ed. New York:
Macmillan.
Garcia Canclini, Nestor. 1995. Hybrid Cultures (Culturas hibridas: estregias para entrar y salir de
la modernidad. Translated by Christopher L. Chiappari and Sylvia L. Lopez. University of
Minnesota Press.
Gates, Henry Louis. 1988. The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism.
New York: Oxford University Press.
-------. 1992. Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars. Oxford University Press.
Geertz, Clifford. 1973. The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books.
-------. 1983. Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology. New York: Basic
Books.
Giddens, Anthony. 1971. Capitalism and Modern Social Theory: An Analysis of the Writings of
Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Gomez-Quinones, Juan. 1977. On Culture. UCLA Chicano Studies Center Publications (Popular
Series No. 1). First published in Revista Chicana-Riquena, Ano cinco, numero dos, Spring 1977.
Hall, Stuart. 1997. Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. London:
Sage in association with the Open University.
hooks, bell. 1984. Feminist Theory: From Marton to Center. Boston: South End Press.
-------. 1989. Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black. Boston: South End Press.
Huhn, Thomas, ed. 2004. Cambridge Companion to Adorno. New York: Cambridge University
Press.
Kendall, Roger, and Roger Savage, eds. 2005. Perspectives in Systematic Musicology: Selected
Reports in Ethnomusicology. Volume 12.
Keyes, Cheryl. 2004. Rap Music and Street Consciousness. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Lang, Berel, and Forrest Williams, eds. 1972. Marxism and Art: Writings in Aesthetics and
Criticism. New York: David McKay Company.
Loza, Steven. 1993. Barrio Rhythm: Mexican American Music in Los Angeles. Urbana:
University of Illinois Press
-------. 1994. Musical Aesthetics and Multiculturalism in Los Angeles: Los Angeles: UCLA
Ethnomusicology Publications.
-------. 1999. Tito Puente and the Making of Latin Music. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
-------. 2003. Musical Cultures of Latin America: Global Effects, Past and Present. Los Angeles:
UCLA Ethnomusicology Publications.
Marx, Karl, and Frederick Engels. 2002. The Communist Manifesto. New York: Penguin Books.
Morley, David, and Kuan-Hsing Chen. 1996. Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies.
New York: Routledge
Mudimbe, V. Y. 1988. The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
-------. 1994. The Idea of Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Nettl, Bruno. 1983. The Study of Ethnomusicology: Twenty-nine Issues and Concepts. University
of Illinois Press.
Neuman, Daniel. 1990. The Life of Music in North India: The Organization of an Artistic
Tradition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

-------, co-editor. 1991. Ethnomusicology and Modern Music History. University of

Illinois Press.
Nketia, J. H. Kwabena. 1990. Contextual Strategies of Inquiry and Systematization.
Ethnomusicology 34(1):75-98.
-------. 1998. The Scholarly Study of African Music: A Historical Review. In Africa: The
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 1 edited by Ruth M. Stone. New York: Garland
Publishing, Inc., pp. 13-73.
Nzewi, Meki. 1997. African Music: Theoretical Content and Creative Continuum. The CultureExponents Definitions. Oldershausen, Germany: Institut fr Didaktik Populrer Musik.
Paredes, Americo. 1958. With His Pistol in His Hand. University of Texas Press.
Pena, Manuel. 1985. The Texas-Mexican Conjunto: History of a Working-Class Music.
University of Texas Press.
Racy, A.J. 2003. Making Music in the Arab World: The Culture and Artistry of Tarab. Cambridge
University Press.
Rees, Helen. 2002. Echoes of History: Naxi Music in Modern China. Oxford University Press.
Rice, Timothy. 1994. May it Fill Your Soul: Experiencing Bulgarian Music. University of
Chicago Press.
-------. 2004. Music in Bulgaria: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture. Oxford University
Press.
Rodo, Jose Enrique. 1988 [1900]. Ariel. Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. University of
Texas Press.
Said, Edward W. 1978. Orientalism. New York: Vintage Books.
Savage, Roger. 1989. Structure and Sorcery: The Aesthetics of Post-War Serial Composition and
Indeterminacy. Garland Publishing.
Seeger, Anthony. 2004. Why Suy Sing: A Musical Anthropology of an Amazonian People, revised
paperback ed. Cambridge University Press.
Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. 2001. Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World.
New York : W.W. Norton.
Sowande, Fela. 1972. "The Role of Music in Traditional African Society." African Music.
Taylor, Timothy. 1997. Global Pop: World Music, World Markets. Routledge.
-------. 2001. Strange Sounds: Music, Technology and Culture. Routledge.
-------. 2007. Beyond Exoticism: Western Music and the World. Duke University Press.

Vasconcelos, Jose. The Cosmic Race (La raza cosmica). Translated by Didier T. Jaen. John
Hopkins University Press. 1997 (1925).
Weber, Max. 1930. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. London.
-------. 1958. The Rational and Social Foundation of Music. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Press.
-------. 1958. From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. Translated and edited by H. H. Gerth and C.
Wright Mills. New York: Oxford University Press.
West, Cornel. 1993. Race Matters. Beacon Press.
Williams, Raymond. 1978. Marxism and Literature. New York: Oxford University Press.