Julia Byl

Biographic Data

ID668763
NAMEJulia Byl
GIVEN NAMESJulia
FAMILY NAMEByl
SIGNATUREBYL J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Alberta
ORCID0000-0002-5147-4703
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS7
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • Sounding the Indian Ocean

    Jim Sykes, Julia Byl et al.BOOKSounding the Indian Ocean2023

  • Colloquy

    Olivia Bloechl and Hyun Kyong Hannah Chang, Juliana M Pistorius et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American…2023

    If we open our introduction to this colloquy with a question, namely how and to what ends we might theorize global music history, it is because critical questioning seems to be at the heart of the contributions gathered here. We invited six authors to reflect on a key historical concept, process, or formation they have encountered in their globally oriented music research; as we expected, the topics and methods of their resulting contributions va…

  • Sounding the Indian Ocean

    Open AccessDavid Ronald Marshall Irving, Jim Sykes et al.EDITORBOOKSounding the Indian Ocean2023Cited by: 2

    Sounding the Indian Ocean is the first volume to integrate the fields of ethnomusicology and Indian Ocean studies. Drawing on historical and ethnographic approaches, the book explores what music reveals about mobility, diaspora, colonialism, religious networks, media, and performance. Collectively, the chapters examine different ways the Indian Ocean might be “heard” outside of a reliance on colonial archives and elite textual traditions, integra…

  • Ethnomusicology and the Indian Ocean

    Julia Byl, Jim SykesARTICLEEthnomusicology2020Cited by: 5References: 58

    This article draws on the recent boom in Indian Ocean studies to build a framework for registering the Indian Ocean in ethnomusicology. We show how the human experiences of movement across the Indian Ocean expanse have conditioned the musical traditions of ports and islands, and we put ethnomusicological writings on places like Zanzibar and Oman into dialogue with those from Mauritius and Singapore. We address how ethnomusicology's area studies p…

  • Hindustani Traces in Malay Ghazal

    Open AccessJulia BylARTICLEBijdragen tot de taal- land- en…2018

  • ‘One story ends and another begins’

    David Lunn, Julia BylARTICLEIndonesia and the Malay World2017

    This is the first treatment of a hitherto unknown text, a hybrid lithograph-manuscript from 1864 called the Syair Tabut, or ‘Poem of the tomb effigies’, by Encik Ali. The only known copy of the Syair, held at Leiden University in the Klinkert collection, and transcribed and translated by Byl, Iskandar, Lunn, and McCallum (2017), describes the Muharram commemorations at Singapore that year. As the poet describes the procession and its consequences…

  • The Syair Tabut of Encik Ali

    Julia Byl, Raja Iskandar Bin Raja Halid et al.ARTICLEIndonesia and the Malay World2017

    This is an annotated transcription and translation of the Syair Tabut (Poem of the Tomb Effigies) of Encik Ali, a Malay-language, Jawi-script syair account of the Muharram commemorations of 1864 at Singapore. The only known part lithograph and part manuscript of this text, on which this edition is based, is held in the library of Leiden University, shelfmark Kl. 191. For a full discussion of this Syair, see the accompanying article by Lunn and By…

  • Music, Convert, and Subject in the North Sumatran Mission Field

    Julia Byl, Jonathan Dueck et al.BOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Music and…2016

    This case study on the Toba Batak of Northern Sumatra focuses on a model 19th-century German missionary, whose success in the almost complete conversion of the Toba was predicated on a politics of selective tolerance, in which certain local codes and practices were encouraged, while others were identified for replacement with Christian practices and emblems. Through a discussion of the musical tensions involved in this process of selective exchan…