Sean Williams

 

2022

• [BOOK] Musics of the World. New York and London: Oxford University Press. ISBN: #978-0190235864
• “Between Vulgarity and Beauty: Hierarchies of Value and Research Trends in Irish Song,” in The Oxford Handbook of Irish Song, 1100-1850, (Moyra Haslett, Conor Caldwell, and Lillis Ó Laoire, eds.). New York: Oxford University Press. [with Lillis Ó Laoire] – forthcoming

2021

• Book review of The Bodhrán: Experimentation, Innovation, and the Irish Frame Drum (Colin Harte) in MUSICultures . – forthcoming
• Book review of The Masses of Seán and Peadar Ó Riada: Explorations in Vernacular Chant (John O’Keeffe) in Notes. – forthcoming

2020

• [BOOK] Focus: Irish Traditional Music, 2nd edition. New York: Routledge. ISBN: #978-0367244026
• “Ethnomusicology, Music Education, and the Power and Limitations of Social Media,” in Oxford Handbook of Social Media and Music Learning, Janice Waldron, Stephanie Horsley, and Kari Veblen, eds. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN: #978-0190660772.
• Book review of Trad Nation: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Irish Traditional Music (Tes Slominski) in Journal of Folklore Research Reviews. [posted December 18, 2020]

2019

• [BOOK] English Grammar: 100 Tragically Common Mistakes (and How to Correct Them). New York, NY: Zephyros Press. ISBN: #978-1641523738.

2018

• “Sonic Liminalities of Faith in Sundanese Vocal Music,” in the Yale Journal of Music and Religion 4/1:43-59.
• “Music and Islam in Rural Washington State: Issues in a Time of War,” in Etnologické Rozpravy/Ethnological Debates 2: 64-69.
• Book review of Saints’ Cults in the Celtic World (Steve Boardman, John Reuben Davies, and Eila Williamson, eds.) in Journal of Folklore Research Reviews.

2017

• “The Singing Body as a Fieldwork Site,” in Cultural Performance: Ethnographic Approaches to Performance Studies, Kevin Landis and Suzanne Macaulay, eds. London: Palgrave, p.164-179.
• Film review of Seán Ó Sé: A Life in Song and Story (Matthew Allen) in Yearbook for Traditional Music 49: 198-199.
• Book review of Flowing Tides: History and Memory in an Irish Soundscape (Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin) in The New Hibernia Review 20/4: 144-146.

2016

• [BOOK] The Ethnomusicologists’ Cookbook, volume II. New York and London: Routledge Publishing (editor and contributor). ISBN: #978-0-415-83867-2.
• “Dancing Toward Autonomy: Jaipongan and the Assertion of Sundanese Identity,” in The Fighting Art of Pencak Silat and its Music – from Southeast Asian Village to Global Movement, Uwe U. Patzöld and Paul Mason, eds. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Publishers, p.335-355.
• “Joining the Gamelan in Theory and Practice,” in The Journal of the Vernacular Music Center, 2/1.
• Book review of Reeling Roosters & Dancing Ducks: Mouth Music of Cape Breton (Heather Sparling) in MusiCultures 43/2: 188-190.

2015

• “Interdisciplinarity in Irish Music Pedagogy,” in Ethnomusicology Ireland 3: 1-18.
• “Music as the Food of Longing in Ireland and Irish America,” in A Symphony of Flavors: Food and Music in Concert (Edmundo Murray, ed.). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.46-64. 

2014

• “Irish Music Revivals Through Generations of Diaspora,” in The Oxford Handbook of Revival and Post-Revival Music-Cultures, Caroline Bithell and Juniper Hill, eds. London: Oxford University Press. pp. 596-615.
• Book review of Traditional Music and Irish Society: Historical Perspectives (Martin Dowling) in New Hibernia Review 154-157.

2013

• “Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin,” in The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland. Harry White and Barra Boydell, eds. Dublin: University College of Dublin, pp. 811-812.

2011

• [BOOK] Bright Star of the West: Joe Heaney, Irish Song-Man (co-written with Lillis Ó Laoire). New York and London: Oxford University Press. ISBN #978-0195321180.
• “The Visiting Artist as Culture Broker: Joe Heaney and the Negotiation of Identity,” in Ethnomusicological Encounters with Music, Musicians and History – Essays in Honour of Robert Garfias, Timothy Rice, ed. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, pp.49-64.
• “Seosamh Ó hÉanaí agus Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh: Cleasa an Chrosáin san Oileán Úr,” in the New Hibernia Review 15/2:80-101. [with Lillis Ó Laoire and Virginia Blankenhorn, written in Irish]
• “USA: Pacific Northwest,” in The Companion to Irish Traditional Music, 2^nd edition. Fintan Vallely, ed. Cork: Cork University Press, pp. 724-725.

2010

• [BOOK] Focus: Traditional Irish Music. New York and London: Routledge Publishing. ISBN #9780415991476.
• “Beberapa Ingatan Gembira Terhadap Guru Saya, Ibu Euis Komariah,” in Daweung Tineung Euis Komariah, ed. Aam Amilia, pp.135-139. Bandung, Indonesia: Jugala. [written in Indonesian]

2009

• “’Gan Unsa ar Bith Céille’: An Fhearúlacht agus An Bharántúlacht in Dhá amhrán le Seosamh Ó hÉanaí,” in Béaloideas: Journal of the Ireland Folklore Society 77: 58-79. [with Lillis Ó Laoire, written in Irish]
• Book review of The Norwegian Scots: an Anthropological Interpretation of Viking-Scottish Identity in the Orkney Islands (Michael A. Lange) in The Journal of Folklore Research Reviews.
• Book review of Listening to an Earlier Java: Aesthetics, Gender, and the Music of Wayang in Central Java (Sarah Weiss) in Yearbook for Traditional Music 41:232-233.
• Book review of The Courtesan’s Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Martha Feldman and Bonnie Gordon, eds.) in Asian Music 40/2:143-145.

2008

• [BOOK] The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music. New York and London: Routledge Publishing (co-editor and contributor). ISBN #0-415-96075-4.
• Tell a Story: Joe Heaney in the Pacific Northwest, CD liner notes. CAMSCO-701 double compact disc.
• “Hootenannies and Other Memories,” in The Inside Trail: Voice of the Glacier Park Foundation 22/2:3-6.
• Book review of Lee’s Law: How Singapore Crushes Dissent (Chris Lydgate) in Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies18/2:172-174.

2007

• “Singing the Famine: Joe Heaney, ‘Johnny Seoighe’ and the Poetics of Performance, with Lillis Ó Laoire, in Dear Far-Voiced-Veteran: Essays in Honour of Tom Munnelly, Anne Clune, ed. ISBN #978-0-9556037-0-9.

2006

• [BOOK] The Ethnomusicologists’ Cookbook: Complete Meals from Around the World. New York and London: Routledge Publishing (editor and contributor). ISBN #0415978181.
• “Irish Music and the Experience of Nostalgia in Japan,” in Asian Music 37/1:101-119.
• “Buddhism and Music” in Sacred Sound: Experiencing Music in World Religions, Guy Beck, ed. Wilfred Laurier University Press, pp.169-189. ISBN #0889204217.
• Book review/essay of The Ethnomusicologists’ Cookbook: Complete Meals from Around the World (Sean Williams) in Culture and Tradition 27.

2005

• Widower’s Paradise: an Irish Farce in Three Acts (co-written with Stacey Stearns), an unpublished comedy play set in Donegal in the early 1970s).
• Book review of Power Plays: Wayang Golek Puppet Theater of West Java (Andrew N. Weintraub) in Asian Music 36/2:109-113.

2004

• “Melodic Ornamentation in the Connemara Sean-Nós Singing of Joe Heaney,” in The New Hibernia Review 8/1:122-145.
• Memories of Stone (poetry anthology), co-editor (with Kate Newmann) and contributor. Shelton, WA: D & H Printing.
• Book review of Gamelan Gong Kebyar: The Art of Twentieth-Century Balinese Music (Michael Tenzer) in The World of Music 46/1:133-135.

2003

• “Competing Against ‘Tradition’ in the Sundanese Performing Arts,” in The World of Music 45/1:79-96.
• Book review of The Gamelan Digul and the Prison Camp Musician Who Built It (Margaret Kartomi) in Notes 59/3.
• Video review of Wayang Golék: Performing Arts of Sunda (West Java) in Asian Music 34/2:154-156.
• Book review of Ar Chreag i Lár na Farraige: Amhráin agus Amhránaithe i dToraigh [On a Rock in the Center of the Ocean: Songs and Singing in Tory] (Lillis Ó Laoire) in Ethnomusicology 47/3:384.
• Book reviews of ‘Twas Only an Irishman’s Dream: The Image of Ireland and the Irish in American Popular Song Lyrics, 1800-1920 (William H.A.Williams) and How Shall We Sing in A Foreign Land: Catholic Music of the Antebellum Irish (Robert R. Grimes) in Ethnomusicology 47/1:127-130.

2002

• “The Ship,” (poem) in In the Deep Heart’s Core (poetry anthology) Dunstan Skinner and Bill Compton, eds., p.25. Olympia, WA: The Evergreen State College.
• Audio review of Wayang Golek: The Sound and Celebration of Sundanese Puppet Theater (Andrew N. Weintraub) in Yearbook for Traditional Music 34:223.

2001

• [BOOK] The Sound of the Ancestral Ship: Highland Music of West Java. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN #0-19-514154-7. [reviewed in Notes 59/4 (2003); The World of Music 45/1:166-170 (2003).]
• “Ethnomusicology as Interdisciplinary Musicology: a Case Study,” in Current Musicology 65:48-62.
• “Ter Ellingson” (biography) in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. New York: MacMillan and Co.
• Audio review of Tembang Sunda: Classical Music from West Java in Yearbook for Traditional Music 33:210-211.
• Book review of Music of Death and New Creation: Experiences in the World of Balinese Gamelan Beleganjur (Michael Bakan) in Asian Music 33/1:127-129.

2000

• “The Scottish Bagpipe in Field and Parlor,” in Faces: People, Places, and Culture (January):14-16.

1999

• “Competition in the Sundanese Performing Arts of West Java, Indonesia,” in Current Musicology 63:27-45.
• Trance 3 (“Sacred Tembang Sunda of West Java”), CD liner notes. Ellipsis Arts compact disc.

1998

• “Sunda,” and “An Introduction to Java,” in The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, volume IV (Southeast Asia), edited by Terry E. Miller and Sean Williams. New York: Garland Publishing. ISBN # 0-8240-6040-7. “Southeast Asian Musics: An Overview,” “A Survey of Scholarship on Southeast Asian Musics,” “Waves of Cultural Influence,” “Culture, Politics, and War,” and “The Impact of Modernization on Traditional Musics,” (co-written with Dr. Terry E. Miller) in The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, volume IV (Southeast Asia), edited by Terry E. Miller and Sean Williams. New York: Garland Publishing. ISBN # 0-8240-6040-7.
• “Constructing Gender in Sundanese Music,” in Yearbook for Traditional Music 30:74-84.
• Audio reviews of Betawi and Sundanese Music of the North Coast of Java and Java: Tembang Sunda in Yearbook for Traditional Music 30:199-201.

1997

• Book review of Gamelan Stories: Tantrism, Islam, and Aesthetics in Central Java (Judith Becker) in Journal of Asian Studies 56/1:246-247.
• Book review of Knowing Music, Making Music: Javanese Gamelan and the Theory of Musical Competence and Interaction (Benjamin Brinner) in Yearbook for Traditional Music 29:153-154.

1996

• Say a Song: Joe Heaney in the Pacific Northwest. CD Liner notes. Seattle: University of Washington Ethnomusicology Archives.
  
• Audio review of Lolongkrang in Asian Music 27/1:163-164.
• Audio reviews of Betawi and Sundanese Music of the North Coast of Java and Night Music of West Sumatra in The World of Music 37/3:114-115.

1995

• “World Beat: Modern Colonialism or Indigenous Synthesis?” in ReView 17/1:31.

1993

• “Our Laughter Balances Our Tears: Humor in Sundanese Arts,” in Balungan 5/2:11-14.

1992

• Book reviews of Popular Music Perspectives (B. Lee Cooper) and The End-of-the-Century Party (Steve Redhead) in Notes 49/2:623-24.
• Book review of Sundanese Music in the Cianjuran Style: Anthropological and Musicological Aspects of Tembang Sunda (Wim van Zanten) in Yearbook for Traditional Music 24:159-160.

1990

• “The Urbanization of Tembang Sunda, an Aristocratic Musical Genre of West Java, Indonesia.” Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington.
• Video review of Indonesia 2: Java in Asian Music 24/2:157-158.
• Audio review of Songs Before Dawn: Gandrung Banyuwangi; Indonesian Popular Music: Kroncong, Dangdut and Langgam Jawa; and Music from the Outskirts of Java in Yearbook for Traditional Music 25:177-179.
• Concert review of “Sunda: from Village to City, Festival of Indonesia in Performance” in Antara Kita, Bulletin of the Indonesian Studies Committee, Association for Asian Studies 30:23-27.

1989

• “Current Developments in Sundanese Popular Music,” in Asian Music 21/1:105-136.

1985

• “Language, Melody and Ornamentation in the Traditional Irish Singing of Joe Heaney.” Unpublished MA thesis, University of Washington.
• The Joe Heaney Collection: an Index to the Songs and Stories. Seattle: University of Washington Ethnomusicology Archives.

1984

• “Joe Heaney,” in Seattle Folklore Society Journal 2(1)2:4-7.
• “Sean-nós: the singing of Joe Heaney,” in Seattle Folklore Society Journal 2(1)2:8-12.
• “An Tighearna Randal: an Irish-Gaelic version of Lord Randall,” in Seattle Folklore Society Journal 2(1)2:13-17.