OVER THE EDGE: PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF FOLKLORE AND ETHNOMUSICOLOGY; ED. BY RHONDA DASS

Through their search to achieve a sense of academic identity the authors in this volume have brought us new textures and ideas from their research to help us all in our creation and location of spaces we can claim as our own. Working within the traditions of academic scholarship, we are reformulating what we see and presenting it in a previously unexplored perspective of connections and possibilities. Through our presentation of this view, we are asserting a new location for the academic identity negotiation that will challenge and reinforce our positioning within scholarly endeavors. The articles contained in these pages are themselves markers of identity produced within and created to define the academic culture. From this base of academic tradition, the essays contained in this volume share grounding in the exploration of culturally produced markers of identity pulling from various academic disciplines. Through the examination of the performance of identity markers, each scholar develops and reveals connections that we may utilize in our ever-expanding perspective of scholarly subjects and approaches. Techno...isn't that German? : Postmodernism and the African American origins of electronic dance music / Denise Dalphond A secret life of rock and roll, pt. 1 : ghosts and shadows / Gabe Skoog Raining blood : Apocalyptic visions in extreme metal / Rachel Conover Selecting ethnic identities through music and dance / Sheaukang Hew Marketing culture : the Big Rom Orchestra of Ahirkapi, Turkey and the musical influence of a minority / Gonca Girgin Na'au Poi : Spiritiual food for cultural enlightenment / Aloha Keko'olani The intellectual property and Chinese folk art / Jiang Lu The concept of divine monarchy as it exists in present day England / Chantal Clarke A good offense, exploring cinematic tale types / Daniel Peretti Over my dead body / Jenn Horn Emotional ethnomusicology : Phenomenological possibilities for the study of music and affect / Paul Schauert Mediating performance : Metadialogues and representation / J. Meryl Krieger When the tape comes on : the frame of fieldwork / Blaine Waide Ethno- muso- edu- what? / Sonya White Ethno- muso- edu- what? : a one-act play / Sonya White. "Pushing Boundaries: Extreme Folklore and Ethnomusicology Conference brought together over 40 scholars from across the Unites States and abroad for the inaugural gathering of graduate students from a number of disciplines interested in exploring and redefining the boundaries of folkore and ethnomusicology research. ... Throughout the course of this two-day conference, each presenter challanged us present to look beyond our own perspectives of academic boundaries and illuminate the connecting fibers and common threads that bind our research more closely than we may have previously assumed. Light reflected from the core disciplines of folklore and ethnomusicology; their glow grew in depth as those in Music Education, Cultural Studies, and Religious Studies added their distinct but complementary tones to the show."--Preface, p. ix