SOAS Research Online

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

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 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) Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam. USA: Indiana University Press. (Framing the Global)

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 (2018) '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. (Forthcoming)

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

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.

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

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.

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: Pease, Rowan and Harris, Rachel, (eds.), Pieces of the musical world: the study of music in culture. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 27-44.

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

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.

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

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

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 (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 (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, Pease, Rowan and Tan, Shzr Ee, eds. (2013) 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 & University of Central Asia, pp. 251-260.

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

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.

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

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

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 (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 Press, pp. 165-185.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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