I am determined to compile a list of music ethnographies published since 1990. No comprehensiveness intended. Now, the list consists mainly of the Alan Merriam Prize winners (see http://webdb.iu.edu/sem/scripts/prizes/prizesdetail.cfm?pID=4). Hopefully it will grow somewhat indipendent over time:

Update: Now in chronological order, maybe it facilitates a historical perspective. First book or second seem to be well-established categories in the US.

Music Ethnographies since 1990

::1990s::

Stokes, Martin. 1992. The arabesk debate: Music and musicians in modern Turkey, Oxford studies in social and cultural anthropology. Oxford New York: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press. [a 1st book]

Rice, Timothy. 1994. May it fill your soul: Experiencing Bulgarian music, Chicago studies in ethnomusicology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Witzleben, J. Lawrence. 1995. "Silk and bamboo" music in Shanghai: The jiangnan sizhu instrumental ensemble tradition. Alan Merriam Prize 1996, World musics. Kent Ohio: Kent State University Press.

Olsen, Dale A. 1996. Music of the Warao of Venezuela: Song people of the rain forest. Alan Merriam Prize 1997. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Danielson, Virginia. 1997. The voice of Egypt: Umm Kulthūm, Arabic song, and Egyptian society in the twentieth century. Alan Merriam Prize 1999, Chicago studies in ethnomusicology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [a 1st book?]

Sugarman, Jane C. 1997. Engendering song: Singing and subjectivity at Prespa Albanian weddings, Chicago studies in ethnomusicology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [a 1st book?]

Vander, Judith. 1997. Shoshone ghost dance religion: Poetry songs and Great Basin context. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press.

Erlmann, Veit. 1999. Music, modernity, and the global imagination: South Africa and the West. Alan Merriam Prize 2000. New York: Oxford University Press. [a 2nd book?]

::2000s::

Tenzer, Michael. 2000. Gamelan gong kebyar: The art of twentieth-century Balinese music. Alan Merriam Prize 2001, Chicago studies in ethnomusicology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Turino, Thomas. 2000. Nationalists, Cosmopolitans and Popular Music in Zimbabwe: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Alan Merriam Prize 2001, Chicago studies in ethnomusicology: The University of Chicago Press. [a 2nd book]

Hagedorn, Katherine J. 2001. Divine utterances: The performance of Afro-Cuban Santería. Alan Merriam Prize 2002. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Waxer, Lise. 2002. The city of musical memory: Salsa, record grooves, and popular culture in Cali, Colombia. Alan Merriam Prize 2003, Music/culture. Middletown Conn.: Wesleyan University Press.

Averill, Gage. 2003. Four parts, no waiting: A social history of American barbershop harmony. Alan Merriam Prize 2004, American musicspheres. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. [a 2nd book]

Berliner, Paul F. 2004. Thinking in jazz: The infinite art of improvisation. Alan Merriam Prize 1995. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. [a 2nd book]

Becker, Judith. 2004. Deep listeners: Music, emotion, and trancing. Alan Merriam Prize 2005. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press. [a 2nd book?]

Perlman, Marc. 2004. Unplayed melodies: Javanese gamelan and the genesis of music theory. Alan Merriam Prize 2005. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Wong, Deborah Anne. 2004. Speak it louder: Asian Americans making music. Alan Merriam Prize 2005 (honorable mention). New York: Routledge. [a 2nd book]

Austerlitz, Paul. 2005. Jazz consciousness: Music, race, and humanity, Music/culture. Middletown Conn.: Wesleyan University Press. [a 2nd book]

Borgo, David. 2005. Sync or swarm: Improvising music in a complex age. Alan Merriam Prize 2006. New York: Continuum.

Perna, Vincenzo. 2005. Timba: The sound of the Cuban crisis. Alan Merriam Prize 2006 (Honorable mention), SOAS musicology series. Aldershot Hants England Burlington VT: Ashgate.

Buchanan, Donna Anne. 2006. Performing democracy: Bulgarian music and musicians in transition, Chicago studies in ethnomusicology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Gaunt, Kyra Danielle. 2006. The games black girls play: Learning the ropes from Double-dutch to Hip-hop. Alan Merriam Prize 2007. New York: New York University Press. [a 1st book]

Largey, Michael D. 2006. Vodou nation: Haitian art music and cultural nationalism. Alan Merriam Prize 2007, Chicago studies in ethnomusicology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Hahn, Tomie. 2007. Sensational knowledge: Embodying culture through Japanese dance. Alan Merriam Prize 2008. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press.

Rommen, Timothy. 2007. Mek some noise: Gospel music and the ethics of style in Trinidad. Alan Merriam Prize 2008, Music of the African diaspora Volume 11. Berkleley Chicago: University of California Press; Center for Black Music Research Columbia College.