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In search of common ground: landscape and place-identity in contemporary British folk Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-16 Matthew Ord
This article identifies ‘place’ as a core theme in contemporary folk, one that affords a means of exploring new forms of post-national identity in Britain. While folk has engaged with questions of ...
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Music and the making of Portugal and Spain: nationalism and identity politics in the Iberian Peninsula Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Walter Aaron Clark
Published in Ethnomusicology Forum (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Made in Nusantara: studies in popular music Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 M. Rizky Sasono
Published in Ethnomusicology Forum (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Songs of Tagore: poetry and melody Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Matthew Pritchard
Published in Ethnomusicology Forum (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Education, music, and the lives of undergraduates: collegiate a cappella and the pursuit of happiness Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Elizabeth H. MacGregor
Published in Ethnomusicology Forum (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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From Rumi to the whirling dervishes: music, poetry, and mysticism in the Ottoman Empire Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Ali Yansori
Published in Ethnomusicology Forum (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Orientalism, Arab Jewish identity(ies) and modernity in British Mandate Palestine viewed through the archive of master musician Azuri Effendi/Ezra Aharon Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Nili Belkind, Edwin Seroussi
In 1934 the renowned Iraqi-Jewish musician Ezra Aharon/Azuri Effendi moved to Palestine, then under the British Mandate, where he became a prominent cultural figure who networked and intersected wi...
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Walkin’ blues: exploring the semiotic musicscape of Rory Gallagher’s Cork City Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Lauren Alex O’Hagan
This paper traces a walking tour of Cork City that I recently undertook, using an autoethnographic perspective to tap into the linguistic and semiotic features of places and spaces associated with ...
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Editorial Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Amanda Bayley, Frederick Moehn, Helena Simonett
Published in Ethnomusicology Forum (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2023)
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Historically informed performance: songs embedded in ǀXam stories Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Alethea de Villiers, Menán du Plessis
This study examines songs incorporated into stories that were collected by Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd from their ǀXam-speaking consultants in late nineteenth century South Africa. Although many o...
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Yusef Lateef, Islam, and jazz Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Eddie S. Meadows
A notable characteristic of the jazz scene of 1940s–1960s North America was the large number of African American musicians who converted to Islam. Focusing on the case of the jazz saxophonist and s...
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Engaging creatively with a traditional soundscape: goat bells—from landscape to performance Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Christian Ferlaino
This article offers an insight into a creative process that relies on ways of engaging creatively with a folk approach to sound. It discusses the adoption of elements of the Calabrian use of bells ...
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Ulutun: sound, materiality and power in a Mapuche ritual Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Leonardo Díaz-Collao
In this article I reflect on sonic power in a Mapuche healing ritual guided by a machi (Mapuche ritual specialist): the ulutun. Through her prayers, songs and instrumental performance, the machi re...
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Teaching with hip hop in the 7–12 grade classroom: a guide to supporting students’ critical development through popular texts Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Eko Pradipta Kurnaedi, Nur Afifah
Published in Ethnomusicology Forum (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2023)
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Rahayu Supanggah: the legacy of an Indonesian and global composer Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Marzanna Poplawska
This article discusses contributions to contemporary gamelan composition by Indonesian composers of Javanese heritage representing two generations: Rahayu Supanggah and his student, Peni Candra Rin...
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Dialogues: towards decolonising music and dance studies Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Amanda Hsieh
Published in Ethnomusicology Forum (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2023)
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‘Barrister is Fújì and Fújì is Barrister’: Fújì music, self-making and the politics of genre-making in Lagos, Nigeria Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Oladele Ayorinde
This article explores the nexus between self-making and genre-making in African popular music through the lens of Fújì music, an urban Yoruba popular music from Nigeria. The story of social agents ...
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Editorial Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Phil Alexander, Alexander Cannon, Frederick Moehn, Helena Simonett, Henry Stobart, Frances Wilkins
Published in Ethnomusicology Forum (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2023)
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The contrasto: observational analysis of an extemporaneous vocal-gestural performance in Tuscany, Italy Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Leonardo D’Amico
The poesia in ottava rima (‘poetry in octave rhyme’) is a living tradition of improvised-sung poetry widespread in the rural areas of Central Italy. In this article, I describe and interpret the in...
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Loss of place, loss of self: musical heterotopias in Franco’s prisons (1938–1945) Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Elsa Calero-Carramolino
At the end of the Spanish Civil War, the Fascist Government led by General Franco implemented a regime of extensive suppression over the population. As a result, prisons became overcrowded with tho...
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Love and rage: autonomy in Mexico City’s punk scene Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Andrew Green
Published in Ethnomusicology Forum (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2023)
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Quietude: a musical anthropology of “Korea’s Hiroshima” Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Keith Howard
Published in Ethnomusicology Forum (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The ancient English morris dance Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Peter Harrop
Published in Ethnomusicology Forum (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2023)
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Music career and sustainability: the strategies of a hiplife musician Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Joshua O. Brew
Despite the challenges musicians face in different music cultures, the question of how musicians sustain their careers is often not highlighted in music and sustainability studies. This article foc...
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Much more than ‘Danny Boy’: bringing Irish traditional music to the USA Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Daithí Kearney, Adèle Commins
Performances in the USA during the 1970s by three semi-professional groups – The Chieftains, the Siamsa Céilí Band, and Siamsa Tíre – present opportunities to understand developments in Irish tradi...
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Thai musicology in context: epistemic disparities in Thai and western ways of knowing Thai music Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 John Garzoli, Tharanat Hin-on
Relatively little has been published in English about dontri Thai (Thai classical music) and due to the absence of Thai scholars from English language musicological scholarship, most of what has be...
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Culturally sustaining pedagogies in music education: expanding culturally responsive teaching to sustain diverse musical cultures and identities Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Mo Zhang
Published in Ethnomusicology Forum (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Staged folklore: the National Folk Theatre of Ireland 1968–1998 Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Maurice Mullen
Published in Ethnomusicology Forum (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Editorial Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Phil Alexander, Alexander Cannon, Helena Simonett, Frances Wilkins
Published in Ethnomusicology Forum (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2023)
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In search of Bidesia Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Brahma Prakash
Published in Ethnomusicology Forum (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2023)
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Sing and sing on: sentinel musicians and the making of the Ethiopian American diaspora Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Zuzana Jurková
Published in Ethnomusicology Forum (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2023)
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‘A whole society, with its own economic system’: the reciprocal and capitalist configurations of American DIY music scenes Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 David Verbuč
ABSTRACT In this article, I examine the alternative economics of reciprocity in American DIY (do-it-yourself) culture. Through long term ethnographic study of local and translocal DIY scenes, including shows, spaces, and touring practices, I reveal a plethora of reciprocal musical and extra-musical activities that enable the creation of alternative DIY worlds. Yet I also highlight how these alternative
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Piercing the structure of tradition: flute performance, continuity, and freedom in the music of Noh drama Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 J. Lawrence Witzleben
Published in Ethnomusicology Forum (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Authors and burners: imagining creative agency in Turkey’s musical folklore Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Dave Fossum
ABSTRACT The idea of anonymity is central to how folk music is defined in Turkey. A widely circulating theory posits that folk songs are not simply anonymous because their authors are forgotten, but because folkloric creativity differs from the process of artistic creativity in other genres. This article draws on the concept of semiotic ideology to analyse the assumptions that mediate how subscribers
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Different affects? Intercepting orientalism through the affective encounters and ritualised mediations of a Shin Buddhist chanting tradition Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Matthew A. Haywood
ABSTRACT Recent ethnomusicological research concerning affect has mostly favoured contexts with lively and flexible performance standards at the expense of traditions that emphasise strict restraint and conformity to prescriptions. This gap in understanding risks erecting a new orientalism, and so this study aims to prevent such a possibility by demonstrating how a ‘restrained’ performance tradition
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Consensus process in the decision-making of a North American alternative brass band Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Andrew Snyder
ABSTRACT Consensus decision-making has become increasingly popular in social movements and other community projects, ideally amplifying feelings of investment and ownership in a project and its goals. While use of consensus has been notable in amateur musical spaces, this article examines the consensus process of a professionally oriented alternative brass band in the United States, exploring whether
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Voices of Vietnam: a century of radio, red music, and revolution Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Lisa Beebe
Published in Ethnomusicology Forum (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2023)
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Editorial Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Phil Alexander, Alexander Cannon, Helena Simonett, Henry Stobart, Frances Wilkins
Published in Ethnomusicology Forum (Vol. 31, No. 3, 2022)
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Listening to the fur trade: soundways and music in the British North American fur trade 1760–1840 Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Lynne Whidden
Published in Ethnomusicology Forum (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2023)
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Special Issue: African musics in Europe Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Damascus Kafumbe
Published in Ethnomusicology Forum (Vol. 31, No. 3, 2022)
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Whose jembe? A drum as a countercultural icon and a symbol of African authenticity in Zagreb Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Linda Cimardi
ABSTRACT The ubiquity of the jembe in western and northern Europe, as well as in North America, was instigated during the 1970s by influential West African jembe players, later developing within world music, where this drum came to represent the essence of ‘African music’. In Croatia the popularity of the jembe did not arise until the late 1990s, motivated by local Croatian musicians who shaped an
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Inside the Yiddish Folksong Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Gabriel A. Zuckerberg
Published in Ethnomusicology Forum (Vol. 31, No. 3, 2022)
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Musical resilience strategies for African asylum seekers in Italy: the cultural mediator Bawa Salifu Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Fulvia Caruso
ABSTRACT This article examines music’s contribution to the wellbeing, identity affirmation, and cultural integration of African asylum seekers in Italy, in a context where the Italian majority is often hostile to migrants and denies multiculturalism. As part of a broader long-term action-based project dedicated to improving intercultural understandings, this case study focuses on the life story and
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Malian music ‘made in France’: postcolonial relationships through world music festivals and ‘transcultural creations’ Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Elina Djebbari
ABSTRACT As a former French colony, Mali's musical landscape contributed in important ways to the formation of the world music scene in France, where many of its most famous musicians have recorded, performed, and sometimes settled, especially from the 1980s onwards. Drawing on this context, the essay offers an overview of the African world music scene in France through some of its main vectors of
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African musics in Europe Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Linda Cimardi
Published in Ethnomusicology Forum (Vol. 31, No. 3, 2022)
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Auld Lang Syne: a song and its culture Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Iain Fraser
Published in Ethnomusicology Forum (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2023)
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Hearing Brazil. Music and histories in Minas Gerais Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Barbara Alge
Published in Ethnomusicology Forum (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2023)
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Editorial Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Phil Alexander, Alexander Cannon, Henry Stobart, Frances Wilkins
Published in Ethnomusicology Forum (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2022)
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Studies on a global history of music: a Balzan musicology project Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Diau-long Shen, Rachel Adelstein, Pei-ling Huang, Min-erh Wang, Hui-ping Lee, Ming Cheng
Published in Ethnomusicology Forum (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2023)
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Intercultural creativity in the Nigerian-Igbo art music of Okechukwu Ndubuisi Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-09-13 Sunday Ofuani
ABSTRACT This article examines the influence of Western art music on the founding of an art music tradition in Nigeria. While the pioneering composers were more Western in approach and style, modern composers’ creative quests for identity and relevance for a local audience have motivated their compositional experiments through intercultural creativity, which Euba [2014. J. H. Kwabena Nketia: Bridging
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‘Give us a voice!’: voice, envoicement, and the politics of ‘world music’ at WOMAD Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-09-08 James Nissen
ABSTRACT During the 1990s and 2000s, ‘world music’ became a contentious topic in ethnomusicology, with polarised exchanges of ‘anxious’ and ‘celebratory’ narratives. Recently, this debate has subsided, and many academics and industry actors have discarded the controversial label. However, attempts to simply bury the discourse are futile because the politics of ‘world music’ continues to play out within
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The art of appreciation: music and middlebrow culture in modern Britain Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-09-02 Ben Earle
Published in Ethnomusicology Forum (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2023)
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Musical sustainability vis-à-vis intangible cultural heritage: safeguarding and incentives in the Feast of the Virgin of Candelaria, Puno, Perú Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Rodrigo Chocano
ABSTRACT Both comparative assessment of the concept of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) and developments in musical sustainability, to ensure the viability of grassroots musical practices, have been important concerns among applied ethnomusicologists over the last decade. This paper identifies some of the challenges in the dialogue between these two approaches from an implementation perspective via
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Ngonsoeng jyugo/Anshang yuge [Ballad on the Shore] Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Victor Fan
Published in Ethnomusicology Forum (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2022)
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Music as a Third Space? – African musics as a field of collaboration in Finland Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Elina Seye
ABSTRACT The history of African musics in Finland has specific characteristics because the African diaspora communities in Finland are relatively young and small. Many African professional musicians living in Finland moved there because of their personal connections with Finns rather than because of broader flows of migration. Despite the minimal numbers of Africans living in Finland, a lively scene
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Turkish Folk music between Ghent and Turkey: context, performance, function Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Hélène Sechehaye
Published in Ethnomusicology Forum (Vol. 31, No. 3, 2022)
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Movement of the people: Hungarian folk dance, populism, and citizenship Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Andrea Conger
Published in Ethnomusicology Forum (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2023)
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Editorial Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Phil Alexander, Alexander Cannon, Henry Stobart, Frances Wilkins
(2022). Editorial. Ethnomusicology Forum: Vol. 31, Practice Research. Guest Edited by Muriel Swijghuisen Reigersberg, Aaron Corn and Brett Pyper, pp. 1-2.
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The folk: music, modernity, and the political imagination Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-05-10 Eilidh Whiteford
Published in Ethnomusicology Forum (Vol. 31, No. 3, 2022)
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Valuing and evaluating musical practice as research in ethnomusicology and its implications for research assessment Ethnomusicology Forum (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Muriel Swijghuisen Reigersberg, Simon McKerrell, Aaron Corn
ABSTRACT In this article, we argue that ethnomusicology holds valuable epistemic insights for considering how to measure and evaluate research for academics, as well as for research policy and management professionals. We focus on two notable instances of standardised national research assessment frameworks: the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF), and Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA)