Apart from my annual surveys (2024 here), I’ve added a tag in the sidebar for roundups, where I group together posts on a particular theme. Whether or not you share my fetish for taxonomy (see e.g. here) and the joys of indexing, as long as you start clicking away on the links (and the links within them…) then this could be a really useful navigational aid!

Note especially

• A mélange of playlists—a rich resource in itself!

China:

• Local ritual
• The Li family Daoists
• Ritual change in north Shanxi
• Gaoluo
• The ritual soundscape of Beijing (Zhihua temple, Qujiaying village)
• Spirit mediums in China
• Memory, music, society
• Famine
• Musical cultures of imperial north China
• Narrative-singing in Chinese society
• Shaanbei
• South Jiangsu
• Hunan

and surveys of my series on

• the Uyghurs
• Tibetan cultures
• with posts on Taiwan added under TUT

I essayed an inventory of Chinese jokes under

• The joys of indexing (see also here).

Further global surveys:

• Shawms around the world
• Blind musicians

Some other themes:

• Gender
• Europe: cultures and politics
• Life behind the Iron Curtain

Western Art Music:

• A Bach retrospective
• A Mozart medley
• Mahler
• The art of conducting

—a theme that also makes appearances under World musicking and ethnography:

• Society and soundscape
• Native American cultures
• A garland of ragas
• Flamenco
• Czech stories
• Heritage
• West/Central Asia—an extensive list
• Japanese culture
• Trumpets, wind and brass bands
• Fiddles around the world
• An Irish music medley
• A cappella singing

Popular culture:

• A jazz medley
• The great Beatles albums
• Punk (including GDR, Spain, Croatia, Iran, China)
• The English, home and abroad
• The liberation of US culture

Drôlerie:

• Wacky headlines
• Language learning
• A sporting medley

and

• Tory iniquity!