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Ruby A Erickson

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ID5518980
NAMERuby A Erickson
GIVEN NAMESRuby A
FAMILY NAMEErickson
SIGNATUREERICKSON R A
AFFILIATIONSBrown University
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TOTAL WORKS1
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT1
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
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  • Sometimes You Can Just Sing Free”: Vocal Transmission, Intradiasporic Diversity, and Belonging in Cabo Verdean New England

    Ruby Erickson, Ruby A Erickson•ARTICLE•Ethnomusicology•2026•References: 14

    In this article, I explore narratives of vocal transmission among Cabo Verdeans and Cabo Verdean Americans in New England, teasing out the threads of diasporic relationality—gathering, musical participation, and kinship—woven into my interlocutors’ stories about musical learning. Such narratives of transmission, I argue, are nuanced by divergent life histories among Cabo Verdean / Americans, which vary according to generation, island origin, and …

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  • Sometimes You Can Just Sing Free”: Vocal Transmission, Intradiasporic Diversity, and Belonging in Cabo Verdean New England

    Ruby Erickson, Ruby A Erickson•ARTICLE•Ethnomusicology•2026•References: 14

    In this article, I explore narratives of vocal transmission among Cabo Verdeans and Cabo Verdean Americans in New England, teasing out the threads of diasporic relationality—gathering, musical participation, and kinship—woven into my interlocutors’ stories about musical learning. Such narratives of transmission, I argue, are nuanced by divergent life histories among Cabo Verdean / Americans, which vary according to generation, island origin, and …

Cultural transmission in animals (1 works) · Diaspora (1 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (1 works) · Ethnography (1 works) · Music History and Culture (1 works) · Musical (1 works) · Musical instrument (1 works) · Narrative (1 works) · Semiotics (1 works) · Sound Studies and Aurality (1 works)

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