What ho, checking in after a long dissensus break to share some of my favorite ethno pieces:
"Midnight at the Barrelhouse: Why Ethnomusicology Matters Now" is a kick-ass piece (short), transcription of a talk he gave. It's on JSTOR but (RIP Aaron Swartz) I'll just post link
here
In it he goes from Flava Flav to Johnny Otis to Chingo Bling..
And the book he references _Midnight at the Barrelhouse: The Johnny Otis Story_ is amazing. Both also deal especially with the politics of cross-racial musical experience, consumption, and participation.
Coming at that from another angle is Stephen Feld.
Two great pieces are:
Pygmy POP. A Genealogy of Schizophonic Mimesis - which is partly about the "pygmy" music references in Watermelon Man, sampling, references, intellectual property and a lot of other good bits.
and
"A Sweet Lullaby for World Music" which is partly about Deep Forest using ethnomusicological field recordings, and I think also Solomon Mbube and 'the lion sleeps.'