Publishers

Ethnomusicology is a thriving academic field of study in the UK, reflected in the growing academic outputs by publishers devoted to the dissemination of high-quality research and scholarly activity. Ethnomusicologists in the UK often publish their monographs, edited collections and textbooks with the following publishers:

• Ashgate is one of the largest academic music book publishers, featuring original research by scholars worldwide. In partnership with the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, Ashgate publishes some of the most cutting-edge work in ethnomusicology through the auspices of the SOAS Musicology Series. Examples of recently published books include: 

The Making of a Musical Canon in Chinese Central Asia: The Uyghur Twelve Muqam, by Rachel Harris

Music and the Play of Power in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia, edited by Laudan Nooshin 

• Routledge provides researchers, professionals, instructors and students in music with a wide range of books and journals produced by Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group. Their extensive music catalogue includes a number of book series of interest to ethnomusicologists (click the website link for a list of these). Examples of recently published books by UK ethnomusicologists include:

Musical Performance in the Diaspora, edited by Tina K. Ramnarine

• Scarecrow has been broadening its list to include a greater scope of materials in music, specifically in ethnomusicology. Examples of recently published books include:

Celtic Modern: Music at the Global Fringe, edited by Martin Stokes and Philip V. Bohlman

The New (Ethno)musicologies, edited by Henry Stobart

Transported by Song: Corsican Voices from Oral Tradition to World Stage, by Caroline Bithell

  
Other publishers with catalogues in ethnomusicology, music or anthropology include:

• Berg Publishers
• Cambridge University Press
• University of Chicago Press
• Continuum
• University of Illinois Press
• Intellect Books
• Oxford University Press
• Palgrave
• Pluto Press
• Wesleyan

Examples of recently published books with these publishers include:

Songs for the Spirits: Music and Mediums in Modern Vietnam, by Barley Norton

Please also check:

• Rosemary Dooley, specialist supplier of books about music.  
   
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