Jennifer C Post

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• Post, J. C., D'Evelyn, C., & Yoon, S. (2022). Mongolian Sound Worlds. University of Illinois.
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  Articles in this collection offer grounded ethnographic perspectives on the diverse contemporary sound practices that exist across Mongolian lands and landscapes. We consider the ways that music has been practiced historically but focus especially on how approaches to sound and music have shifted to meet social and environmental changes in this region over the past several decades. Our chapters focus on a range of subjects, including such musical traditions as long song (urtyn duu), throat-singing (khöömii), vocalizations and other valued sound-making in rural settings, regional song and instrumental forms of Uriankhai and Kazakh peoples, and urban-based genres such as Mongolian hip-hop, “M-Pop,” and folk-infused popular music. We consider a variety of issues including agency and power expressed through music and musical instrument production, the entanglement of regional, national and ethnic identities, and gendered approaches to performance and musical forms. We also examine the effects of ecological change on music and other sound practices in each region through such topics as musical attachment to place and the land, identification with nature and natural resources, and the impact of ecosystem balance and imbalance.
• Post, J. C. (2016). Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader, Volume Two. New York: Routledge Press.
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  This is an edited volume for which I am the sole editor. There are twenty-two authors. I will write the introduction, section introductions, one of the twenty articles, and offer a list of research resources.

Chapters

• Post, J. C. (2024). Making and Growing the End-blown Flute: Heritage and Transmission in the Mongolian Steppes. In Instrumental Lives. University of Illinois Press.
• Post, J. C. (2023). Resilient Sounds: Rakiura Stewart Island, Aotearoa New Zealand. In Sounds—Ecologies—Musics. Oxford University Press.
• Post, J. C. (2021). Social Lives of the Dombyra and Its Makers in Western Mongolia. In Mongolian Sound Worlds(pp 170-194). University of Illinois Press.
• Post, J. C. (2021). Sound, Music, Pastoralism, and Nature in Mongolian Sound Worlds. In Mongolian Sound Worlds(pp 21-49). University of Illinois Press.
• Post, J. C. (2018). Ecology, Mobility and Music in Western Mongolia. In Diverse Environmentalisms. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• Post, J. C. (2020). 21st Century Trading Routes in Mongolia: Changing Pastoral Soundscapes and Lifeways. In Silk Roads: From Local Realities to Global Narratives(pp 177-196).
• Post, J. C. (2016). Asia, Central and East. In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Music and Culture. SAGE.
• Post, J. C. (2016). Asia, Middle East. In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Music and Culture. SAGE.
• Post, J. C. (2016). Musical Instruments”. In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Music and Culture. SAGE.
• Post, J. C. (2016). “Construction of Musical Instruments.”. In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Music and Culture. SAGE.
• Post, J. C. (2016). “Organology.”. In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Music and Culture. SAGE.
• Post, J. C. (2019). Tonewood, Skin, and Bone: Lutes and Local Ecologies along Eurasian Trading Routes. In Plucked Lutes of the Silk Road. Shanghai: Shanghai University Press.
• Post, J. C. (2019). “Climate Change, Mobile Pastoralism and Cultural Heritage in Western Mongolia.”. In Cultural Sustainability: Music, Media, Language, Advocacy(pp 75-86). Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
• Post, J. C. (2019). “Place Names and Kazakh Song Making in the Mongolian Steppes: Sharing Local Language and Embracing Identity.”. In The Changing World Language Map. Springer.
• Emberly, A., & Post, J. C. (2018). Sharing John Blacking: The development of archival practices to support the repatriation and reunification of a historical ethnomusicological collection. In The Oxford Handbook of Musical Repatriation(pp 215-238). London: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780190659806.013.12
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  As ethnomusicological collections become accessible to individuals, communities, and institutions beyond the scope of the original collector, their contents are often repurposed, reimagined, and reinformed. With the growing engagement with repatriation by archives, individuals, and institutions, field recordings, fieldnotes, images, and other supporting materials offer tangible and intangible records of musical performance, context, and historical data to scholars and the communities that first offered their music for scholarly research. Drawing from the Vhavenda materials in the John Blacking collection housed at the University of Western Australia, this chapter uses two case studies, on children’s music and musical instruments, to explore some of the myriad issues surrounding the repatriation of a historical ethnomusicological collection. The goal is to help shape how future archivists, scholars, and communities engage with archiving and repatriating ethnomusicological collections.
• Post, J. C. (2019). Sharing John Blacking: Repatriation and Reunification of a Historical Ethnomusicological Collection. In Musical Repatriation: Open Dialogues about Sonic Heritage.
• Post, J. C. (2017). “Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Mobile Pastoralism and Musical Expression in Western Mongolia.”. In Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader Volume II(p. 21). New York: Routledge.
• Guyette, M. Q. (2015). Ecomusicology, Ethnomusicology, and Soundscape Ecology: Scientific and Musical Responses to Sound Study”. In Current Directions in Ecomusicology: Music, Nature, Environment(pp 40-56). New York: Routledge Press.
• Post, J. C. (2015). Reviewing, reconstructing and reinterpreting ethnographic data on musical instruments in archives and museums. In Research, Records and Responsibility: Ten years of PARADISEC(pp 135-161). Sydney: University of Sydney Press.

Journals/Publications

• Post, J. C. (2019). Songs, Settings, Sociality: Human and Ecological Wellbeing in the Altai Sayan Ecoregion of Mongolia. Journal of Ethnobiology, 39(2).
• Post, J. C. (2021). Disciplinary Entanglements in Ethnomusicology. Society for Ethnomusicology Newsletter, 55(1), 9-25.
• Post, J. C. (2021). Threatened Soundscapes of Mongolia. Sensate Journal.
• Post, J. C. (2019). Call and Response: Problem Solving Ecomusicology. Ethnomusicology, 64(2).
• Post, J. C., Cooley, T., Allen, A. S., Hellier, R., Pedelty, M., Von Glahn, D., & Titon, J. T. (2020). Call and Response: SEM President’s Roundtable 2018, “Humanities’ Responses to the Anthropocene”. Ethnomusicology, 64(2), 301-301. doi:10.5406/ethnomusicology.64.2.0301
• Post, J. C. (2019). Songs, Settings, Sociality: Human and Ecological Well-Being in Western Mongolia. Journal of Ethnobiology, 39(3), 371. doi:10.2993/0278-0771-39.3.371
• Post, J. C., & Pijanowski, B. C. (2019). “Coupling Scientific and Humanistic Approaches to Address Wicked Environmental Problems of the Twenty-first Century: Collaborating in an Acoustic Community Nexus”. MUSICultures.
• Post, J. C. (2018). Climate Change and Cultural Heritage in Western Mongolia. Leonardo, 51(3), 285-286. doi:10.1162/leon_a_01533
• Post, J. C., & Pijanowski, B. C. (2018). Coupling Scientific and Humanistic Approaches to Address Wicked Environmental Problems of the Twenty-first Century: Collaborating in an Acoustic Community Nexus. MUSICultures, 45.
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  Addressing serious environmental challenges, or wicked problems, locally and globally, we argue here that working collaboratively as scientist and humanist we are in a strategic position to help address biodiversity crises. We outline synergies that combine the strengths, tools, and fresh perspectives of soundscape ecology and sound studies in ethnomusicology. Our unique collaboration places sound at the core of our process but utilizes a community acoustics lens to bring both the sounds of nature and those of people together to couple our epistemologies, methodologies, and deep commitment to addressing the ecological needs today.
• Post, J. C. (2017). Climate Change and Cultural Heritage in Western Mongolia. Leonardo Journal. doi:10.1162/LEON_a_01533
• Post, J. C. (2014). “Performing Transition in Mongolia: Repatriation and Loss in the Music of Kazakh Mobile Pastoralists.”. Yearbook for Traditional Music, 46, 43-61.

Presentations

• Post, J. C. (2017, Fall). Heritage and Transmission in the Mongolian Steppes. Traditional Music in the 21st Century: The 200th Anniversary of Music Ethnography in Kazakhstan. Almaty, Kazakhstan: Kurmangazy Conservatory.
• Post, J. C. (2017, Fall). Music and Mobility in Inner Asia: Experience and Theory. Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting. Boulder, Colorado: Society for Ethnomusicology.
• Post, J. C. (2017, Spring). Ecology, Mobility, and Music in Western Mongolia. Diverse Environmentalism Symposium. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University.
• Post, J. C. (2017, Summer). Sound, Acoustic Communities and Musical Instrument Making. International Council for Traditional Music Conference. Limerick Ireland: International Council for Traditional Music.
• Post, J. C. (2017, Summer). Sound, Ecological Knowledge, and Economic Stability in Acoustic Communities of Rural Mongolia. Sound & Environment. University of Hull, UK: University of Hull, UK.
• Post, J. C. (2017, Winter). Sound Signals in the Steppes: Kazakh Economic Survival in Western Mongolia. Environmental Narratives in Mongolian Sound Worlds Symposium. University of California, Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley.
• Post, J. C. (2016, Fall). (Tone)wood, Skin, and Bone: Lutes and Local Ecologies along Asian Trading Routes. International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) Colloquium. Shanghai, China: Shanghai Conservatory and the International Council for Traditional Music.
• Post, J. C. (2016, Fall). Ecology, Economy, and Instrument Making along Asian Trading Routes. The Belt and Road Cultural Heritage International Academic Forum,. Quanzhou, Fujian, China: Chinese National Academy of Arts, Government of China.
• Post, J. C. (2016, Fall). Mobile Pastoralists as Sound Scientists and Natural Resource Managers: A Case Study from Western Mongolia. Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting. Washington, DC: Society for Ethnomusicology.
• Post, J. C. (2016, Spring). Ecology, Economy and Musical Instrument Making in Late and Post-Soviet Inner Asia. Music of South, Central and West Asia Conference. Harvard University: Harvard University.
• Post, J. C. (2016, Spring). Scientific Data, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Local Music in the Altai-Sayan Ecoregion. Balance-Unbalance 2016. Manizales, Colombia: Balance-Unbalance 2016.
• Post, J. C. (2016, Spring). Scientific Data, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Local Music in the Altai-Sayan Ecoregion. British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting. University of Kent, UK: British Forum for Ethnomusicology.
• Post, J. C. (2016, Winter). Flute Tales: Reflections on Kazakh End-blown Flute Performances in Western Mongolia. CMT Colloquium. Tucson, Arizona: School of Music, University of Arizona.
• Post, J. C. (2015, July). “Music and New Mobilities: Travel and Kazakh Musical Production in Mongolia.”. International Council for Traditional Music. Astana, Kazakhstan: International Council for Traditional Music; Turksoy.
• Post, J. C. (2015, March). “Climate Change, Mobile Pastoralism and Cultural Heritage in Western Mongolia.”. Balance-Unbalance 2015: Water, Climate, Place, Re-Imagining Environments. Arizona State University: Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts; Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability; Ear to the Earth.
• Post, J. C. (2015, September). “Choreographing pan-Turkic Identity in Post-Soviet Central Asian Music and Dance Productions.”. Middle East and North African Studies (MENAS) Colloquium, University of Arizona. Tucson, Arizona: MENAS.