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Beyond the Digital Diaspora: YouTube Methodologies, Online Networking and the Hmong Music Festival (2015)
Journal Article
Ó Briain, L. (2015). Beyond the Digital Diaspora: YouTube Methodologies, Online Networking and the Hmong Music Festival. Journal of World Popular Music, 2(2), 289-306. https://doi.org/10.1558/jwpm.v2i2.26561

This article examines attempts by American Hmong to turn the thriving Hmong digital diaspora into a sustainable offline musical community. The Hmong, an ethnic group of five million people spread across five continents, have embraced YouTube as a pri... Read More about Beyond the Digital Diaspora: YouTube Methodologies, Online Networking and the Hmong Music Festival.

Principles of Geology and sensory experience at London's Cyclorama (2015)
Journal Article
Hibberd, S. (2015). Principles of Geology and sensory experience at London's Cyclorama. 19th-Century Music, 39(2), https://doi.org/10.1525/ncm.2015.39.2.167

The Cyclorama opened in London in 1848 with a representation of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake that reportedly terrified audiences with its realistic aural and visual effects. During the first half of the century Londoners had been confronted with a rapi... Read More about Principles of Geology and sensory experience at London's Cyclorama.

Giovanni Battista De Vecchis and the theory of melodic accent from Zarlino to Zingarelli (2014)
Journal Article
Baragwanath, N. (2014). Giovanni Battista De Vecchis and the theory of melodic accent from Zarlino to Zingarelli. Music and Letters, 95(2), 157-182. https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcu010

This article investigates Niccolò Zingarelli's method of text-setting, as documented in Giovanni Battista De Vecchis's Compendio of Neapolitan teachings (1850). It contextualizes De Vecchis's instructions by tracing the genealogy of the concept of 'a... Read More about Giovanni Battista De Vecchis and the theory of melodic accent from Zarlino to Zingarelli.

Futurism in Venice, Crisis and "la musica dell'avvenire", 1924 (2014)
Journal Article
BOYD, H. (2014). Futurism in Venice, Crisis and "la musica dell'avvenire", 1924. California Italian Studies, 4(1),

In January 1924 the latest incarnation of Futurist music theatre, Il nuovo teatro futurista, began a twenty-eight city tour of the peninsula. The Venice stopover, at the Teatro Goldoni on January 25, prompted a flurry of media activity. Press repor... Read More about Futurism in Venice, Crisis and "la musica dell'avvenire", 1924.