Hutchinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 32991 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hutchinson |
| FAMILY NAME | Hutchinson |
| SIGNATURE | HUTCHINSON |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0907-962X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Triangle or Onion: The Bermudian Gombey Tradition at the Crossroads of the Black and Red Atlantics
Bermuda’s gombeys are dancers and drummers who practice a unique mumming/masquerade tradition. Though they have seldom received scholarly attention, gombeys now serve as a central symbol of Bermudian identity, even usurping the onion, the island’s signature crop—though Bermuda remains better known among outsiders as the tip of a supernatural triangle. In this article I examine various facets of the gombey tradition including drumming, dancing, ma…
Von Haus zu Haus: Kurt Reinhard, Erich Stockmann, and the Berlin Phonogram Archive in the Shadow of the Berlin Wall
The erection of the Berlin Wall in November 1961 gave the separation between the West and the Eastern Bloc, and particularly between the two Germanies, an enduring symbol. It also concretized the division of the Berlin Phonogram Archive, which had been separated by the Second World War, in a seemingly unsurmountable way. But while the wall made cross-border academic collaborations considerably more difficult, it did not prevent them entirely. Thi…
Cooperation, Competition, and Cold War Thinking in German Music Studies of the 1950s and 1960s
Norteño Corporeality: Body, Gender, Sound, and Economy in Commercialized Norteño Music Videos
This article analyzes norteño corporeality, or how bodies physically engage with norteño music and visually display norteño identities. Through a comparison of more than 75 mainstream videos, it explains how current norteño corporeality differs from earlier corporealities, why it differs from tejano ones, and why it strongly resembles those of gangsta rap. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the article focuses on the banal and the ordinary in m…
Cumbia! Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre Danzón: Circum-Caribbean Dialogues in Music and Dance
Entangled Rhythms on a Conflicted Island: Digging up the Buried Histories of Dominican Folk Music
The ongoing human rights crisis in the Dominican Republic has made it abundantly clear that antihaitianismo lives on in the island of Quisqueya. While most Dominican histories date such sentiments back to the 1822-44 Haitian "occupation" of the eastern part of the island, evidence seems rather to indicate that coexistence was relatively peaceful up until the Trujillo dictatorship (1930-1961). Over three decades, Trujillo institutionalized anti-ha…
Asian Fury: A Tale of Race, Rock, and Air Guitar
Attending to race has become essential in ethnomusicology at least since publication of Music and the Racial Imagination (2000). And what sort of musical performance could be more imaginary than air guitar? Competitive air guitarists realized long before scholars that their art form provided an ideal means by which to contest the overwhelming whiteness of rock and electric guitar, sometimes extending their critique to include gender as well. Asia…
Creolization as Cultural Creativity
Book Review| October 01 2015 Creolization as Cultural Creativity Creolization as Cultural Creativity. Ed. Robert Baron and Ana C. Cara. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2011. Pp. 320, photographs, bibliography, index.). Sydney Hutchinson Sydney Hutchinson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2015) 128 (510): 481–483. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.128.510.0481 Cite Icon Cite Share I…
Latino music
A Limp with Rhythm: Convergent Choreographies in Black Atlantic Time
Until at least the 1980s, scholarship on Caribbean carnivals tended to overemphasize European roots because of the celebration's ties to the Christian calendar. Meanwhile, scholarship on Caribbean music has long been embroiled in nationalistic paradigms that have hindered a view of the Caribbean as a cultural region with more commonalities than differences among the music cultures of the various nations (see Bilby 1985). In this paper, I combat t…
Ventura (Soriano), Johnny
Los viajes del viento , and: El vuelco del cangrejo (review)
Reviewed by: Los viajes del viento, and: El vuelco del cangrejo Sydney Hutchinson Ciro Guerra, writer and director. 2009. Los viajes del viento. Ciudad Lunar Producciones. Ruíz Navia, Oscar, writer and director. 2009. El vuelco del cangrejo. Contravía Films and Arizona Films. Natural and aural beauty are probably not the first things that come to a foreigner’s mind when thinking of Colombia. In two recent Colombian films, however, music and natur…
Típico, folklóricoorpopular? Musical categories, place, and identity in a transnational listening community
The study of popular music often loses something in translation. The musical categories used by scholars and musicians in different locations vary widely in meaning, complicating both analysis and disciplinary divisions. Genre classifications also create blind spots which leave styles falling between the cracks out of the picture, impoverishing analysis and even denying musicians certain benefits. This paper examines the use of terms such asfolkl…
Merengue Típico in Santiago and New York: Transnational Regionalism in a Neo-Traditional Dominican Music
Research Article| January 01 2006 Merengue Típico in Santiago and New York: Transnational Regionalism in a Neo-Traditional Dominican Music Sydney Hutchinson Sydney Hutchinson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2006) 50 (1): 37–72. https://doi.org/10.2307/20174423 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sydney Hutchinson; Merengue Típico in Santiago …
Chicana Traditions: Continuity and Change (review)
Chicana Traditions: Continuity and Change. Edited by Norma E. Cantú and Olga Nájera-Ramírez. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Pp. x + 269, bibliographies, photographs, index.)
Gesture, Gender, Nation: Dance and Social Change in Uzbekistan (review)
Gesture, Gender, Nation: Dance and Social Change in Uzbekistan. By Mary Masayo Doi. (Westport, Conn.: Bergin & Garvey, 2002. Pp. xii + 151, bibliography, photographs, index.)
Gesture, Gender, Nation: Dance and Social Change in Uzbekistan
Book Review| April 01 2004 Gesture, Gender, Nation: Dance and Social Change in Uzbekistan Gesture, Gender, Nation: Dance and Social Change in Uzbekistan, Mary Masayo Doi. Sydney Hutchinson Sydney Hutchinson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2004) 117 (464): 236–237. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137858 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citatio…
Chicana Traditions: Continuity and Change
Book Review| April 01 2004 Chicana Traditions: Continuity and Change Chicana Traditions: Continuity and Change, Norma E. Cantú and Olga Nájera-Ramírez. Sydney Hutchinson Sydney Hutchinson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2004) 117 (464): 234–235. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137856 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sydney Hutchinson…
Típico, folklóricoorpopular? Musical categories, place, and identity in a transnational listening community
The study of popular music often loses something in translation. The musical categories used by scholars and musicians in different locations vary widely in meaning, complicating both analysis and disciplinary divisions. Genre classifications also create blind spots which leave styles falling between the cracks out of the picture, impoverishing analysis and even denying musicians certain benefits. This paper examines the use of terms such asfolkl…
Merengue Típico in Santiago and New York: Transnational Regionalism in a Neo-Traditional Dominican Music
Research Article| January 01 2006 Merengue Típico in Santiago and New York: Transnational Regionalism in a Neo-Traditional Dominican Music Sydney Hutchinson Sydney Hutchinson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2006) 50 (1): 37–72. https://doi.org/10.2307/20174423 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sydney Hutchinson; Merengue Típico in Santiago …
Asian Fury: A Tale of Race, Rock, and Air Guitar
Attending to race has become essential in ethnomusicology at least since publication of Music and the Racial Imagination (2000). And what sort of musical performance could be more imaginary than air guitar? Competitive air guitarists realized long before scholars that their art form provided an ideal means by which to contest the overwhelming whiteness of rock and electric guitar, sometimes extending their critique to include gender as well. Asia…
Chicana Traditions: Continuity and Change (review)
Chicana Traditions: Continuity and Change. Edited by Norma E. Cantú and Olga Nájera-Ramírez. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Pp. x + 269, bibliographies, photographs, index.)
Gesture, Gender, Nation: Dance and Social Change in Uzbekistan (review)
Gesture, Gender, Nation: Dance and Social Change in Uzbekistan. By Mary Masayo Doi. (Westport, Conn.: Bergin & Garvey, 2002. Pp. xii + 151, bibliography, photographs, index.)
Gesture, Gender, Nation: Dance and Social Change in Uzbekistan
Book Review| April 01 2004 Gesture, Gender, Nation: Dance and Social Change in Uzbekistan Gesture, Gender, Nation: Dance and Social Change in Uzbekistan, Mary Masayo Doi. Sydney Hutchinson Sydney Hutchinson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2004) 117 (464): 236–237. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137858 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citatio…
Chicana Traditions: Continuity and Change
Book Review| April 01 2004 Chicana Traditions: Continuity and Change Chicana Traditions: Continuity and Change, Norma E. Cantú and Olga Nájera-Ramírez. Sydney Hutchinson Sydney Hutchinson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2004) 117 (464): 234–235. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137856 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sydney Hutchinson…
Merengue Típico in Santiago and New York: Transnational Regionalism in a Neo-Traditional Dominican Music
Research Article| January 01 2006 Merengue Típico in Santiago and New York: Transnational Regionalism in a Neo-Traditional Dominican Music Sydney Hutchinson Sydney Hutchinson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2006) 50 (1): 37–72. https://doi.org/10.2307/20174423 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sydney Hutchinson; Merengue Típico in Santiago …
Ventura (Soriano), Johnny
Los viajes del viento , and: El vuelco del cangrejo (review)
Reviewed by: Los viajes del viento, and: El vuelco del cangrejo Sydney Hutchinson Ciro Guerra, writer and director. 2009. Los viajes del viento. Ciudad Lunar Producciones. Ruíz Navia, Oscar, writer and director. 2009. El vuelco del cangrejo. Contravía Films and Arizona Films. Natural and aural beauty are probably not the first things that come to a foreigner’s mind when thinking of Colombia. In two recent Colombian films, however, music and natur…
Típico, folklóricoorpopular? Musical categories, place, and identity in a transnational listening community
The study of popular music often loses something in translation. The musical categories used by scholars and musicians in different locations vary widely in meaning, complicating both analysis and disciplinary divisions. Genre classifications also create blind spots which leave styles falling between the cracks out of the picture, impoverishing analysis and even denying musicians certain benefits. This paper examines the use of terms such asfolkl…
A Limp with Rhythm: Convergent Choreographies in Black Atlantic Time
Until at least the 1980s, scholarship on Caribbean carnivals tended to overemphasize European roots because of the celebration's ties to the Christian calendar. Meanwhile, scholarship on Caribbean music has long been embroiled in nationalistic paradigms that have hindered a view of the Caribbean as a cultural region with more commonalities than differences among the music cultures of the various nations (see Bilby 1985). In this paper, I combat t…
Latino music
Creolization as Cultural Creativity
Book Review| October 01 2015 Creolization as Cultural Creativity Creolization as Cultural Creativity. Ed. Robert Baron and Ana C. Cara. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2011. Pp. 320, photographs, bibliography, index.). Sydney Hutchinson Sydney Hutchinson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2015) 128 (510): 481–483. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.128.510.0481 Cite Icon Cite Share I…
Entangled Rhythms on a Conflicted Island: Digging up the Buried Histories of Dominican Folk Music
The ongoing human rights crisis in the Dominican Republic has made it abundantly clear that antihaitianismo lives on in the island of Quisqueya. While most Dominican histories date such sentiments back to the 1822-44 Haitian "occupation" of the eastern part of the island, evidence seems rather to indicate that coexistence was relatively peaceful up until the Trujillo dictatorship (1930-1961). Over three decades, Trujillo institutionalized anti-ha…
Asian Fury: A Tale of Race, Rock, and Air Guitar
Attending to race has become essential in ethnomusicology at least since publication of Music and the Racial Imagination (2000). And what sort of musical performance could be more imaginary than air guitar? Competitive air guitarists realized long before scholars that their art form provided an ideal means by which to contest the overwhelming whiteness of rock and electric guitar, sometimes extending their critique to include gender as well. Asia…
Cumbia! Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre Danzón: Circum-Caribbean Dialogues in Music and Dance
Norteño Corporeality: Body, Gender, Sound, and Economy in Commercialized Norteño Music Videos
This article analyzes norteño corporeality, or how bodies physically engage with norteño music and visually display norteño identities. Through a comparison of more than 75 mainstream videos, it explains how current norteño corporeality differs from earlier corporealities, why it differs from tejano ones, and why it strongly resembles those of gangsta rap. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the article focuses on the banal and the ordinary in m…
Cooperation, Competition, and Cold War Thinking in German Music Studies of the 1950s and 1960s
Triangle or Onion: The Bermudian Gombey Tradition at the Crossroads of the Black and Red Atlantics
Bermuda’s gombeys are dancers and drummers who practice a unique mumming/masquerade tradition. Though they have seldom received scholarly attention, gombeys now serve as a central symbol of Bermudian identity, even usurping the onion, the island’s signature crop—though Bermuda remains better known among outsiders as the tip of a supernatural triangle. In this article I examine various facets of the gombey tradition including drumming, dancing, ma…
Von Haus zu Haus: Kurt Reinhard, Erich Stockmann, and the Berlin Phonogram Archive in the Shadow of the Berlin Wall
The erection of the Berlin Wall in November 1961 gave the separation between the West and the Eastern Bloc, and particularly between the two Germanies, an enduring symbol. It also concretized the division of the Berlin Phonogram Archive, which had been separated by the Second World War, in a seemingly unsurmountable way. But while the wall made cross-border academic collaborations considerably more difficult, it did not prevent them entirely. Thi…
Art (11 works) · History (10 works) · Music History and Culture (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Visual arts (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (4 works)