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Authored Books

Harris, Rachel (2020) Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam. USA: Indiana University Press. (Framing the Global)

Harris, Rachel (2008) The Making of a Musical Canon in Chinese Central Asia: The Uyghur Twelve Muqam. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Harris, Rachel (2004) Singing the Village. Music, Memory, and Ritual amongst the Sibe of Xinjiang. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Harris, Rachel, ed. (2024) Introduction to the HAU Film Symposium on "The Thirty Boys". Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (HAU Journal of Ethnographic Theory. Vol.14, no.2)

Harris, Rachel, Ha, Guangtian and Jaschok, Maria, eds. (2020) Ethnographies of Islam in China. Hawaii: University of Hawai'i Press.

Harris, Rachel and Wood, Abigail, eds. (2018) Sharing Space? Sharing Culture? Applied Experiments in Music-Making Across Borders. Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung. (The World of Music (new series), Volume 7, Issue 1+2)

Harris, Rachel and Stokes, Martin, eds. (2017) Theory and Practice in the Music of the Islamic World: Essays in Honour of Owen Wright. Abingdon; New York: Routledge. (SOAS Musicology Series)

Harris, Rachel and Pease, Rowan, eds. (2015) Pieces of the Musical World: Sounds and Cultures. Abingdon: Routledge.

Harris, Rachel, Pease, Rowan and Tan, Shzr Ee, eds. (2013) Gender in Chinese Music. Rochester: University of Rochester Press. (Eastman/Rochester Studies Ethnomusicology)

Bellér-Hann, Ildiko, Césaro, Cristina, Harris, Rachel and Smith Finley, Joanne, eds. (2007) Situating the Uyghurs: between China and Central Asia. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Book Chapters

Harris, Rachel (2022) 'Uyghur Religious Heritage under China’s 'Anti-Religious Extremism' Campaigns.' In: Cuno, James B. and Weiss, Thomas G., (eds.), Cultural Heritage and Mass Atrocities. Los Angeles: Getty Publications.

Harris, Rachel and Karimova, Zulfiyam (2022) 'Women’s Chay Gatherings in Kazakhstan: Sustaining identity in migrant communities.' In: Mirsultan, Aysima, Schluessel, Eric and Sulaiman, Eset, (eds.), Community Still Matters: Uyghur Culture and Society in Central Asian Context. København: NIAS Press, pp. 203-217. (NIAS Studies in Asian Topics)

Harris, Rachel and Isa Elkun, Aziz (2022) 'Music, Terror, and Civilizing Projects in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.' In: Impey, Angela, (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights. Abingdon: Routledge. (SOAS Studies in Music)

Harris, Rachel (2021) 'The Soundscapes Turn in Ethnomusicology: Sonic territoriality and the Islamic revival across Chinese-Central Asian borders.' In: Cottrell, Stephen, (ed.), Music, Dance and Anthropology. London: Royal Anthropological Institute; Sean Kingston Publishing.

Harris, Rachel and Dawut, Rahile (2020) 'Listening in on Uyghur Wedding Videos: Piety, Tradition, and Self-fashioning.' In: Harris, Rachel, Ha, Guangtian and Jaschok, Maria, (eds.), Ethnographies of Islam in China. Hawai'i: University of Hawai'i Press.

Harris, Rachel (2018) 'Dissonant Voices in China’s Harmonious Society: From Cassettes to WeChat, Nation to Anashid.' In: Manabe, Noriko and Drott, Eric, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Protest Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Forthcoming)

Harris, Rachel (2017) 'Theory and practice in contemporary Central Asian Maqām traditions: the Uyghur On Ikki Muqam and the Kashmiri Sufyana Musiqi.' In: Harris, Rachel and Stokes, Martin, (eds.), Theory and Practice in the Music of the Islamic World: Essays in Honour of Owen Wright. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, pp. 217-237. (SOAS Musicology Series)

Webster-Kogen, Ilana (2016) ''Tezeta' (Nostalgia): Memory and Loss in Ethiopia and the Diaspora.' In: Harris, Rachel and Pease, Rowan, (eds.), Pieces of the Musical World: Sounds and Culture. Abigndon: Routledge, pp. 227-244.

Melville, Caspar (2015) 'Strange Routes: "Dancing Girl": Flows, Formats and Fortune in Music.' In: Harris, Rachel and Pease, Rowan, (eds.), Pieces of the Musical World: Sounds and Cultures. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, pp. 209-226.

Marriage, Zoe (2015) '"Grande Mestre": Longing and celebration in Capoeira Angola (Brazil).' In: Harris, Rachel and Pease, Rowan, (eds.), Pieces of the Musical World: Sounds and Cultures. Abingdon: Routledge.

Duran, Lucy (2015) '"Soliyo" (calling the horses): song and memory in Mande music (Mali).' In: Harris, Rachel and Pease, Rowan, (eds.), Pieces of the musical world: the study of music in culture. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 27-44.

Harris, Rachel (2015) '“Subhan’Allāh” (Glory to God): Listening and Weeping in a Dhikr Ceremony.' In: Harris, Rachel and Pease, Rowan, (eds.), Pieces of the Musical World: Sounds and Cultures. Oxon; New York: Routledge, pp. 123-138.

Impey, Angela (2015) 'Audio-letters from South Sudan: Tracing Dinka networks, connections and intimacies beyond the war zone.' In: Harris, Rachel and Pease, Rowan, (eds.), Pieces of the Musical World: Sounds and Cultures. Abingdon; New York: Routledge.

Impey, Angela (2015) '“Song of Akuac”: Audio-letters from South Sudan: Tracing Dinka Networks, Connections, and Intimacies beyond the war zone.' In: Harris, Rachel and Pease, Rowan, (eds.), Pieces of the Musical World. Sounds and Culture. New York and London: Routledge, pp. 195-207.

Gray, Nick (2015) '"Sudamala" (freed from evil): exploring a ritual piece for Balinese gendér wayang.' In: Harris, Rachel and Pease, Rowan, (eds.), Pieces of the musical world: sounds and cultures. New York; London: Routledge, pp. 154-167.

Harris, Rachel (2013) 'Doing Satan’s Business: Negotiating gendered concepts of music and ritual in rural Xinjiang.' In: Harris, Rachel, Pease, Rowan and Tan, Shzr Ee, (eds.), Gender in Chinese Music. Rochester: University of Rochester Press. (Eastman/Rochester Studies Ethnomusicology)

Harris, Rachel (2013) 'Harmonizing Islam in Xinjiang: sound and meaning in rural Uyghur religious practice.' In: Bellér-Hann, Ildiko and Brox, Trine, (eds.), On the Fringes of the Harmonious Society: Tibetans and Uyghurs in Socialist China. Copenhagen: NIAS Press, pp. 293-317.

Harris, Rachel (2012) 'The Uyghur Muqam.' In: Levin, Theodore and Kuchumkulova, Elmira, (eds.), Music of Central Asia: an Introduction. Naryn: Aga Khan Trust for Culture and University of Central Asia, pp. 251-260.

Harris, Rachel (2009) 'Abdulla Mäjnun: Muqam Expert.' In: Rees, Helen, (ed.), Lives in Chinese Music. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Harris, Rachel (2009) 'National Traditions and Illegal Religious Activities in Chinese Central Asia.' In: Nooshin, L., (ed.), Sounds of Power: Music, Politics and Ideology in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 165-185.

Harris, Rachel (2007) 'Situating the Twelve Muqam: Between the Arab World and the Tang Court.' In: Bellér-Hann, Ildiko, Cesaro, M. C., Harris, Rachel and Smith Finley, Joanne, (eds.), Situating the Uyghurs between China and Central Asia. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 69-88.

Harris, Rachel (2001) 'Cassettes, Bazaars and Saving the Nation: the Uyghur Music Industry in Xinjiang, China.' In: Craig, Timothy and King, Richard, (eds.), Global Goes Local: Popular Culture in Asia. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, pp. 265-83.

Journal Article

Harris, Rachel (2024) 'The Aesthetics and Imaginaries of Uyghur Heritage, Chinese Tourism, and the Xinjiang Dance Craze.' International Journal of Heritage Studies, 30 (8). pp. 872-887.

Harris, Rachel and Kamalov, Ablet (2020) 'Nation, Religion, and Social Heat: Heritaging Uyghur Mäshräp in Kazakhstan.' Central Asian Survey, 40 (1). pp. 9-33.

Harris, Rachel (2020) '“A Weekly Mäshräp to Tackle Extremism”: Music-making in Uyghur Communities and Intangible Cultural Heritage in China.' Ethnomusicology, 64 (1). pp. 23-55.

Harris, Rachel and Isa, Aziz (2018) 'Islam by smartphone: reading the Uyghur Islamic revival on WeChat.' Central Asian Survey, 38 (1). pp. 61-80.

Harris, Rachel (2018) 'Applied experiments in collaboration along the Silk Road.' World of Music, 7 (1+2). pp. 37-59.

Wood, Abigail and Harris, Rachel (2018) 'Introduction: Sharing space? Sharing culture? Applied experiments in music-making across borders.' World of Music, 7 (1-2). pp. 7-16.

Harris, Rachel (2017) 'The New Battleground: Song-and-dance in China’s Muslim borderlands.' World of Music, 6 (2). pp. 35-56.

Harris, Rachel (2015) 'The Changing Uyghur Religious Soundscape.' Performing Islam, 3 (1-2). pp. 93-114.

Harris, Rachel and Jaschok, Maria (2015) 'Introduction: Sounding Islam in China.' Performing Islam, 3 (1-2). pp. 3-13.

Harris, Rachel (2014) 'The Oil is Sizzling in the Pot’: Sound and Emotion in Uyghur Qur'anic Recitation.' Ethnomusicology Forum, 23 (3). pp. 331-359.

Harris, Rachel (2012) 'Tracks: temporal shifts and transnational networks of sentiment in Uyghur song.' Ethnomusicology, 56 (3). pp. 450-475.

Harris, Rachel (2011) 'Invitation to a mourning ceremony: perspectives on the Uyghur internet.' Inner Asia, 13 (1). pp. 27-49.

Harris, Rachel (2005) 'Reggae on the Silk Road: the Globalisation of Uyghur Pop.' The China Quarterly, 183 (1). pp. 627-643.

Harris, Rachel (2005) 'Wang Luobin: Folksong King of the Northwest or Song Thief? Copyright, Representation and Chinese Folksongs.' Modern China, 31 (3). pp. 381-408.

Harris, Rachel and Dawut, Rahile (2002) 'Mazar festivals of the Uyghurs: Music, Islam and the Chinese State.' British Journal of Ethnomusicology, 11 (1). pp. 101-118.

Harris, Rachel (2000) 'From Shamanic Ritual to Karaoke: the (trans)migrations of a Chinese folksong.' CHIME: Journal of the European Foundation for Chinese Music Research, 14/15. pp. 48-60.

Conference or Workshop Items

Harris, Rachel (2014) Internet rumours and the changing Uyghur religious soundscape: the case of the Snake-Monkey Woman. In: Islamic Soundscapes of China, 10 January 2014, SOAS, University of London.

Harris, Rachel (2012) The Geographies of Ritual Practice in Rural Uyghur Society. In: Musical Geographies of Central Asia, 16-18 May 2012, SOAS, University of London.

Monographs and Working Papers

Harris, Rachel and Isa Elkun, Aziz (2023) The Complicity of Heritage: Cultural Heritage and Genocide in the Uyghur Region. Washington, DC: Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP).

Book Reviews

Harris, Rachel (2023) 'Review of: The Sound of Salvation: Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China, by Guangtian Ha, New York, NY, Columbia University Press, 2022, 312 pp., $140.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780231198066; $35.00 (paperback), ISBN: 9780231198073.' Politics, Religion and Ideology, 24 (4). pp. 626-629.

Harris, Rachel (2015) 'Review: The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History - RIAN THUM.' The China Quarterly, 222 . pp. 574-576.

Audios

Harris, Rachel (2009) Aq Beliq. London Uyghur Ensemble. Felmay Records. [Audio]

Films

Harris, Rachel (2012) Borderlands: Wu Man and Master Musicians from the Silk Route. Smithsonian Folkways.

Other

Han, Enze, Palmer, James, Barnett, Robert, Bequelin, Nicholas, Millward, James A., Harris, Rachel, Leibold, James, Bulag, Uradyn E., Hill, Nathan W., Sperling, Elliot, Shakya, Tsering and Yeh, Emily T. (2014) 'Are ethnic tensions on the rise in China? A Chinafile conversation.'

Harris, Rachel (2009) 'Lessons for Schools, 1: China. The production of melody in Chinese teahouse music: “adding flowers to the skeleton”.' Classroom Music, summer term 2008/9.

Harris, Rachel (2005) 'Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.' In: Continuum encyclopedia of popular music of the world. Vol. 5. New York: Continuum.

Harris, Rachel (2004) 'Mäjnun: classical traditions of the Uyghurs.' SOASIS 06 (production and sleeve notes).

Harris, Rachel and Muhpul, Y. (2002) 'Music of the Uyghurs.' In: The Turks, Vol.6. Istanbul: Yeni Turkiye Publications. pp. 542-549.

Harris, Rachel (2001) 'Popular music of the Uyghurs.' In: Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, 6. Routledge.

Harris, Rachel (2000) 'Uyghur Musicians from Xinjiang: Music from the Oasis towns of Central Asia.' Ace Records.