Table of Contents

• Guest Editors' Preface by Rebecca Draisey-Collishaw and J. Lawrence Witzleben

Articles

• ‘The Redress Of Music: Music, Mediation, and Parity of Esteem’ by Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin
• ‘The Music and Memory Project: Understanding Music and Dementia through Applied Ethnomusicology and Experiential Filmmaking’ by Jennie Gubner
• ‘A Sea of Voices: Performance, Relations, and Belonging in Saltwater Places’ by Brian Diettrich
• ‘IFMC, Masu Genjiro, Kurosawa Takatomo, and Their Recordings of Taiwanese Music’ by Ying-Fen Wang
• ‘“From Identity to Alliance”: Challenging Métis “Inauthenticity” through Alliance Studies’ by Monique Giroux
• ‘The Significance of Ìrìráábú Musical Satire in the Ékpè Dance Festival Amongst the Obohia-Ndoki People of Nigeria’ by Ubochi Stella Igbokwe
• ‘Why Is Uncle Paintbrush So Funny? The Case of Youtube Translation of a Syrian Kurdish Wedding Song into Finnish’ by Antti-Ville Kärjä
• ‘Squaring Off: The Forgotten Caller in Cape Breton Square Dancing’ by Heather Sparling
• ‘Politely Different: Queer Presence in Country Dancing and Music’ by Kathryn Alexander

Book Reviews

• Harris, Rachel, Rowan Pease, and Shzr Ee Tan, eds. Gender in Chinese Music. Review by Hsin-Wen Hsu
• Hilder, Thomas R., Henry Stobart, and Shzr Ee Tan, eds. Music, Indigeneity, Digital Media. Review by Joseph Keola Donaghy
• Hoefnagels, Anna and Beverley Diamond, eds. Aboriginal Music in Contemporary Canada: Echoes and Exchanges. Review by Liz Przybylski. 
• Imada, Adria. Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire. Review by Andrea Low
• Sunardi, Christina. Stunning Males and Powerful Females: Gender and Tradition in East Javanese Dance. Review by Christi-Anne Castro
• Yıldız, Burcu. Experiencing Armenian Music in Turkey: An Ethnography of Musicultural Memory. Review by Liselotte Sels

Book Notes

Download the “Book Notes” section of the Yearbook for Traditional Music, Vol. 50 (2018) in PDF format.

Audio Reviews

Europe

• Roumanie. Musique du Maramureş. Groupe Iza / Romania. Music from Maramureş. Iza Group. Review by Colleen Bertsch
• Entropy: Where Byzantium Meets Jazz. Review by Kim Cunio

South America

• Música y Cantos Tradicionales de Cañaris; Woxrexcüchinga: El Ritual de la Pubertad en el Pueblo Ticuna. Review by Jonathan Ritter

West Asia

• Letters from Iraq. Review by Lisa Urkevich
• Music from Yemen Arabia. Review by Jean Lambert

East Asia

• Japon. Teruhisa Fukuda, Maître de Shakuhachi. Offrande Musicale / Japan. Teruhisa Fukuda, Shakuhachi Master. Musical Offering. Review by Henry Johnson

Southeast Asia

• Laos. Musique des Khmou / Laos. Music of the Khmu. Review by Christopher Adler

Oceania

• Crying Bamboos: Ceremonial Flute Music from New Guinea Madang. Review by Neil R. Coulter
• Ngiya awungarra / I am Here, Now: Tiwi Voices Past and Present in New Musical Conversations. Review by Katelyn Barney
• Barrtjap’s Wangga; Muluk’s Wangga; Manji’s Wangga; Lambudju’s Wangga; Walakandha Wangga; Ma-yawa Wangga. Review by Grace Koch.

Film/Video Reviews

• The Groove Is Not Trivial. Review by Kathryn Alexander
• Vikāra kō vinimaya: Exchange of Ideas. Review by Pirkko Moisala
• Up Down & Sideways: Kho Ki Pa Lü. Review by Emi Okada
• Resilient Music at the Margins. Review by Mayco A. Santaella

Website Reviews

• Intangible Cultural Heritage. Review by Catherine Grant
• International Research Centre for Traditional Polyphony. Review by Laura Leante
• Aural Archipelago: Field Recordings from Around Indonesia. Review by Indra Ridwan
• Puls — Journal for ethnomusicology and ehnochoreology. Review by Catherine Foley
• EthnoCloud. Review by Aleysia Whitmore

Support materials

Gubner

• Figure 1. Screen shot sequence of Russ and Faye during our first field session.
• "Music & Memory — Bloomington, Indiana" - A student film from Dr. J Gubner's Music & Memory Course at IU
  
• Russ & Faye - Short Film from Dr. Jennie Gubner's Filming Music & Memory Course
  
• Gabrielle - A Short Music & Memory Project Film By Maggie & Will
  

Diettrich

• Figure 1. Dawn arrival of the canoes for the Festival of Pacific Arts, Guam (photo by B. Diettrich, 2016).
• Figure 5. The seaway that lies between Chuuk Lagoon and its western atolls (photo by B. Diettrich, 2006). 
• Figure 6. Waaseres (sailing canoe) at Polowat Island (photo by B. Diettrich, 2006).
• Figure 7. Wúúmaaw performance on Pollap Island (photo by B. Diettrich, 2006).
• Figure 9. Women of Pollap Island performing at the 12th Festival of Pacific Arts, Guam (photo by B. Diettrich, 2016).
• Figure 10. Men and women of Pollap Island performing at the 12th Festival of Pacific Arts, Guam (photo courtesy of Hikaru Koide, 2016).

Giroux

• Figure 3. Replica of traditional Red River cart displayed at Métis Heritage Celebration (photo: Monique Giroux, 25 June 2016).
• Figure 4. Summer Youth Cultural Program dancers at Métis Heritage Celebration (photo: Monique Giroux, 25 June 2016).
• Figure 5. Traditional Métis arts displayed at Métis Heritage Celebration (photo: Monique Giroux, 25 June 2016).

Igbokwe

• Figure 1. Map of Nigeria with Obohia-Ndoki Marked (produced by Magellan Geographix, 1992). (Source: Ndoki Assembly, powered by WordPress. Copyright © All rights reserved).
• Figure 2. Írìráábú singers and some Ékpè spirit-manifests in a performance (photo: Ubochi Stella Igbokwe, 3 February 2018).
• Figure 3. The scenery of an Ékpè dance festival with some mobile performers at a section of the performance arena (photo: Ubochi Stella Igbokwe, 3 February 2018).
• Figure 4. The community’s principal spirit-manifest Nwụ́tàm just out of the forest of the gods and heading to the performance arena (photo: Ubochi Stella Igbokwe, 1 January 2015).
• Figure 5. A band of age-grade performing in Ékpè dance festival (photo: Ubochi Stella Igbokwe, 8 January 2016).

Kärjä

• Figures 2–5. Uncle Paintbrush’s hand gestures at 1:06, 1:07, 1:08, and 1:53, respectively, in the “Niilin hanhet” video (TheKassitus 2009).
• Figure 6. The tembûr-player in “Pênsedî zêde” (Mihemed 2008), at 2:49.