All Stories

  1. Music and Dances from Central Nepal: The Works of Subi Shah

    Article • September 2026, Open Book Publishers

    Anna Stirr

  2. A Brief History of Music Videos in Nepal

    Article • November 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Anna Stirr

  3. Seeking Wellbeing Through Song

    Article • May 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Anna Stirr

  4. Love, Politics, and Life between Village and City in Nepali Lok Dohori

    Article • December 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Anna Stirr

  5. Revolution and reality shows: Nepal’s CPN and the media worlds of late capitalism

    Article • Indian Theatre Journal, August 2022, Intellect

    Anna Stirr

  6. Raktim Pariwar’s Red Lanterns: Dance and Cultural Revolution in Nepal

    Article • Asian Theatre Journal, January 2021, Project Muse

    Anna Stirr

  7. Singing and Survival: The Music of Easter Island. By Dan Bendrups

    Article • Music and Letters, November 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Anna Stirr

  8. Singing across Divides: Music and Intimate Politics in Nepal by Anna Marie Stirr

    Article • Asian Music, January 2020, Project Muse

    Anna Stirr

  9. Review of Kirin Narayan's book Everyday Creativity.

    Article • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, May 2018, Wiley

    Anna Stirr

  10. Singing Across Divides: Music and Intimate Politics in Nepal

    Article • October 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Anna Stirr

  11. Introduction to Singing Across Divides

    Article • October 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Anna Stirr

  12. Heading Home: Festival Dohori in a Hill Village

    Article • October 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Anna Stirr

  13. 1. Tending the Flower Garden: Legacies of Panchayat Musical Nationalism

    Article • October 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Anna Stirr

  14. Songs with Consequences? Songfests and Binding Dohori Contests in the Rural Hills

    Article • October 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Anna Stirr

  15. Sounding and Staging Village Nepal

    Article • October 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Anna Stirr

  16. Professional Dohori and Economies of Honor

    Article • October 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Anna Stirr

  17. Finding a Place as a Woman Alone: Violence, Storytelling, and World-Making in Song

    Article • October 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Anna Stirr

  18. Love, Solidarity, and Sociopolitical Change

    Article • October 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Anna Stirr

  19. Conclusion to Singing Across Divides

    Article • October 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Anna Stirr

  20. Ruralising the City: Migration and Viraha in Translocal Nepal

    Article • Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, September 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Anna Stirr

  21. Review of Richard Widdess's book Dapha: Sacred Singing in a South Asian City

    Article • Ethnomusicology Forum, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Anna Stirr

  22. Book Review of Mark Bender's edited volume The Borderlands of Asia

    Article • China Review International, January 2016, Project Muse

    Anna Stirr

  23. Sounding and Writing a Nepali Public Sphere: The Music and Language of Jhyaure

    Article • Asian Music, January 2015, Project Muse

    Anna Stirr

  24. Book Review of Dhana Hughes's book Violence, Torture, and Memory in Sri Lanka: Life After Terror

    Article • Journal of Contemporary Asia, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Anna Stirr

  25. Tears for the Revolution

    Article • September 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Anna Stirr

  26. Book Review of Music in Pacific Island Cultures

    Article • Music and Letters, August 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Anna Stirr

  27. Class Love and the Unfinished Transformation of Social Hierarchy in Nepali Communist Songs

    Article • April 2013, British Academy

    Anna Stirr

  28. Book Review of Sounds of Secrets by Raymond Amman

    Article • Music and Letters, February 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Anna Stirr

  29. Nepali Ho: Contemporary and Traditional Music of Nepal

    Article • Ethnomusicology, January 2013, University of Illinois Press

    Anna Stirr

  30. Changing the Sound of Nationalism in Nepal: Deuda Songs and the Far Western Region

    Article • South Asian Popular Culture, October 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Anna Stirr

  31. "May I Elope": Song Words, Social Status, and Honor among Female Nepali Dohori Singers

    Article • Ethnomusicology, January 2010, University of Illinois Press

    Anna Stirr

  32. Blue Lake: Tibetan Popular Music, Place, and Fantasies of the Nation

    Article • January 2008, Brill

    Anna Stirr