MY
FIRST WRITING MACHINE – an Olivetti
[not so much a hat just the first machine I wrote on – a classic
Olivetti portable which I still keep in a cupboard, bought in Oxford 1974
to replace my first one which I left behind in Temuco, Chile following 1973
coup d'état]
 Writing,
Editing; Academic Work
1997-99 Editor, Ethnomusicology Team, The New
Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Macmillan 2000)
Popular Music Journal (Cambridge University Press):
Since 1988 I have been a member of the Editorial Board - first women to be invited onto the board.
I was Book Reviews Editor between 2003 and 2010. As well as co-editing General Issues like other members of the board I have worked on General Issues and ten Special Issues which I initiated with the Music of Latin America issue in 1987.
Popular Music (CUP): as well as general issues, I initiated the ‘special issues’ and have edited a number notably
2012 Music And Age forthcoming
2011 Music of Latin America, Spain and Portugal
2009 General Issue
2006 25/3 Music and Dance
2000 19/1 Music and Place
1996 15/3 Music of the Middle East
1994 13/3 Music of Australia and New Zealand
1991 10/2 Issue for John Blacking
1990 9/1 Radio
1989 8/3 Music of Africa
1987 6/2 Music of Latin America
Academic Publications
| 2010 |
Ports of Call: an ethnographic analysis of music programmes on the migration of people, musicians, genres and instruments, BBC World Service, 1994-1995, forthcoming in Migrating Music eds Jason Toynbee and Byron Dueck, Routledge |
| 2010 |
Recording the Revolution: Music Studios in Cuba, Jan Fairley and Alexandrine Fournier, forthcoming in The Art of Record Production, eds Simon Frith and Simon Zagorski Thomas |
| 2009 |
The Rejuvenating Power of the Buena Vista Social Club in SAMPLES, Online-Publikationen des Arbeitskreis Studium Popularer Musik e. V. (ASPM) ed. Von Appen et al, Jargang 8 (2009) www.aspm-samples.de/Samples8/fairley/pdf |
| 2007 |
‘Como hacer el amor con ropa’ (How To Make Love With Your Clothes On): dancing regeton and gender in Cuba, in Reading Reggaeton, Ed. Rivera, Pacini-Hernández and Marshall, Duke University Press, pp 280-294 |
| 2006 |
Dancing back to front: regeton sexuality, gender and transnationalism in Cuba, Popular Music 25/3, 2006 (Special Issue Music and Dance), pp 471-488 |
| 2005 |
Revised chapters on Flamenco, Music of Spain, Cuban Music, Chilean Music, Andean Music, Latin American 'New Song', for The Rough Guide to World Music. Rough Guides/Penguin, Vols I and II. |
| 2004 |
“‘Ay
Díos, Ampárame’ (O God, Protect Me): Music in Cuba
during the 1990s, the
‘Special Period,” in Island Musics, ed. Kevin Dawe,
Berg 2004, pp. 77-99 |
| 2001
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'World
Music', The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Pop and Rock, ed. S. Frith
& J. Street, CUP 2001, pp 272-289 |
| 2001 |
"Qué
vista da la Buena Vista?" For Casa de las Americas journal:
Globalization and Music, Casa de las Americas, Havana, Cuba (forthcoming…)
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| 2000 |
New and revised
chapters on Flamenco, The Music of Spain, The Music of Cuba, Andean
Music, Chilean Music, Latin American 'New Song', for The Rough
Guide to World Music. Rough Guides/Penguin, vols. I and II and for
individual guides |
| 2001 |
'Chilean
New Song' in Censorship: An International Encyclopaedia, Fitzroy
Dearborn Publishers. Ed. D Jones (forthcoming 2001) |
| 1994 |
Chapters
on Flamenco, Cuban Music, Andean Music, Latin American 'New Song'
for The Rough Guide to World Music. Rough Guides/Penguin |
| 1994 |
Essay Review
'Rockin'the Boat: Mass Music and Mass Movements', Ed Reebee Garofolo.
Boston, in Popular Music 1994 Vol.13/1. |
| 1992 |
Silvio
Rodríguez: Music and Revolution in Cuba - en gira por la
patria - el reparador de sueños. Vol.1. 1789-1989 Musique,
Histoire, Democracie, Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme,
pp 249-263, Paris. |
| 1992 |
Essay review:
The Power and Poetry of Song by R. Pring-Mill, Popular Music 11/3
October 1992, pp 365-371. |
| 1991 |
Member International
Editorial Board, World Beat, House Journal IASPM, Berlin. |
| 1991 |
Essay review:
Brazil, Popular Music 10/2, May 1991, pp 231-237. |
| 1990 |
'The Blind
Leading the Blind, Changing Perceptions of Traditional Music: The
Case of the Peruvian Ayllu Sulca', Proceedings of the International
Symposium Music in the Dialogue of Cultures: Traditional Music and
Cultural Policy, The World of Music Journal, UNESCO/IICMSD. Ed, International
Institute for Comparative Music Studies and Documentation in co-operation
with the Staatliches Institut fur Musikforschung Preussischert Kulturbesitz,
Berlin. |
| 1989 |
'New Song:
Music and Politics in Latin America', in Rhythms of the World,
BBC Books, Ed. F. Hanly & T. May pp 88-97. |
| 1989 |
Selected
discography of popular music from Africa, Popular Music 8/3, CUP,
pp 311-317. |
| 1989 |
'Out of the
Archive and Into the World of Music', Popular Music 8/1, CUP, pp 101-106. |
| 1989 |
'Analysing
Performance: Narrative and Ideology in Concerts by Karaxú!
(Chile)', Popular Music 8/1, CUP, pp 1-30. |
| 1988 |
'Alive
and Performing in Latin America', Popular Music 7/1, pp 105-111. |
| 1986 |
'Annotated
Bibliography of Latin American Popular Music with particular reference
to Chile and to nueva canción', in Popular Music 5, pp 305-356. |
| 1984 |
La Nueva
Canción Latinoamericana in Bulletin of Latin American Research
3/2. pp 103-15. |
| 1983 |
Karaxú!
and Incantation: when does 'folk' music become 'popular'? in Popular
Music Perspectives 2; paper from 2nd Conference on Popular Music Studies,
Reggio Emilia, pp 278-286. |
| 1983 |
Towards
a semiological analysis of musical performance, in Studies in
Traditional Music and Dance 11, ed. N.Webber, Edinburgh. International
Council for Traditional Music, pp 44-54. |
| 1977 |
Chilean
Song 1960-76, Latin American Studies, Oxford Microform Publications. |
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