We are very pleased to announce the publication of the most recent issue of MUSICultures (44-1), a special issue on Generational Frictions in the Musical Ethnography of South Asia guest edited by Dr. Margaret E. Walker (Queen’s University) and Dr. Kaley Mason (Lewis & Clark College).

This issue is available to current members of the Canadian Society for Traditional Music (non-members can freely access issues more than 3 years old). Or become a member – it’s easy! Or check your library for access.

CONTENTS

KALEY MASON and MARGARET E. WALKER
Situating Generational Frictions in Musical Ethnography of South Asia

CAROL BABIRACKI
Two Generations in the Fault Lines of India’s Musical Modernities

REHANNA KHESHGI
Navigating Generational Frictions through Bihu Festival Performance in Assam, India

ANAAR DESAI-STEPHENS
The Age of Aspiration? Music Classes and the Limits of Gendered Self-transformation in Mumbai

RAKAE JAMIL
Generations of Audio Work through the Digital Turn in Contemporary Pakistan

ADRIAN McNEIL
Generational Friction: An Ethnographic Perspective on Guru Seva within a Lineage of Tabla Players in Kolkata

TIZIANA LEUCCI
La danse en Inde du sud, entre conflits générationnels, identitaires, de genre et de caste

SITARA THOBANI
Projects of Reform: Indian Classical Dance and Frictions of Generation and Genre

JEFF ROY and PAVITHRA PRASAD
Ethnomusicology and Performance Studies: Towards Interdisciplinary Futures of Indian Classical Music

DANIEL M. NEUMAN
A Khandani Perspective: Room for a (Long) View

BOOK REVIEWS / COMPTES RENDUS DE LIVRES

NILANJANA BHATTACHARJYA
Jayson Beaster-Jones. Bollywood Sounds: The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Song 

JUSTIN ADAMS BURTON
Fernando Orejuela. Rap and Hip Hop Culture 

ROXANE CAMPEAU
Victoria Lindsay Levin et Philip V. Bohlman, dirs. This Thing Called Music: Essays in Honor of Bruno Nettl

DOMINIQUE O. CYRILLE
Claude Dauphin. Histoire du style musical d ’ Haïti 

RECORDING REVIEWS / COMPTES RENDUS D’ ENRGISTREMENTS

MARIE-PIERRE LISSOIR
Archives internationales de musique populaire et Musée d ’ ethnographie de Genève. Laos : Musique des Khmou 

DAMIEN VERRON
Sherry Johnson, dir. Soufflets et Archets: Enregistrements historiques de musique traditionnelle pour violon et accordéon du Canada 

WEBSITE REVIEWS / COMPTES RENDUS DE SITES INTERNETS

LAURON KEHRER
Dana Gorzelany-Mostak and James Deaville, eds. Trax on the Trail (http://www.traxonthetrail.com)