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Topic: Ethnomusicologist


  
  Critique II
The approach Gourlay proposes is of an ethnomusicologist who, instead of resembling a superhumanly objective and omniscient figure, is integral to the ethnomusicological field study through the human and sometimes subjective qualities of the individual.
It is indeed the ethnomusicologist who must meet the challenges of the field and not a constraining single set of rules we would call the science of ethnomusicology.
As ethnomusicologists there seems to be a problem in discovering questions not asked because the learning process we have known precludes their formation.
homepages.nyu.edu /~dnb208/gourlay2   (1402 words)

  
  Lecture 28: World Musics & Ethnomusicology   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Some of the earliest "ethnomusicologists" (though they did not use that term) were missionaries, travelers, government and military officers, and traders, who were often highly educated and who, in the course of their regular work, began to keep diaries and journals about the cultures they were visiting and interacting with.
Most ethnomusicologists agree that in order to study a field one must work "in the field." That entails actually travelling to the country of origin, and studying, recording and filming the musical activity.
An ethnomusicologist must be sensitive to a culture that he or she is studying-- for example, questions have arisen about the propriety of recording secret or sacred musics, and about the earnings from the commercial sale of recordings.
www.omnidisc.com /MUSIC/Lecture27.html   (2807 words)

  
 Gheorghe Zamfir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
He was initially self-taught and continued his education at the Bucharest Academy of Music, where he was a pupil of Fanica Luca, and the Conservatory of Bucharest (1968).
He came to the public eye when he was 'discovered' by Swiss ethnomusicologist Marcel Cellier who extensively researched Romanian folk music in the 1960s.
Largely through the numerous television commercials for his albums, he introduced the panflute to a modern audience and revived it from obscurity.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zamfir   (169 words)

  
 Review of Kenneth Gourlay ‘s Toward a Reassessment
The model Gourlay proposes is of an ethnomusicologist who, instead of resembling a superhumanly objective and omniscient figure, is integral to the ethnomusicological field study through the human and sometimes subjective qualities of the individual.
The difficulty is that the method he [Merriam] propounds to achieve this end involves a concept of the ethnomusicologist as both omniscient and non-existent, as a subject to zero constraint and at the same time to absolute constraint.
Now, he says, there is a move to recognize this is not the case and that the field worker is an active living, extant part of the research he or she carries out in the field.
homepages.nyu.edu /~dnb208/Gourlay   (1499 words)

  
 World-renowned ethnomusicologist to lecture on Native American music at the U: News Releases: UMNnews: U of M.
Ethnomusicologists study music within its cultural context and work to understand its importance and influence on people of that culture.
Their research is done often while immersed within the culture allowing for personal insights into the music and its evolution.
As an ethnomusicologist, Nettl’s main research interests include the music of Native American cultures and music of the Middle East, especially Iran.
www.ur.umn.edu /unsreleases/find.php?ID=1982&from=umnnews   (439 words)

  
 Stojkova Serafimovska Velika   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Her research as ethnomusicologist are focused on the rural tradition, the rite folklore, the rite songs and dances in Macedonia, the musical folklore of the Turk minority in Macedonia and mutual influences between Turks and Macedonians.
As an ethnomusicologist noe she is working at the state ensemble of folk dances and songs of Macedonia "Tanec".
She is involved in several projects connected with ethnology and ethnomusicology in Macedonia, and collaborates with numerous ethnomusicologists from the Balkan countries.
www.mdw.ac.at /volksmusik/emm/stojkova.htm   (290 words)

  
 Ethnomusicologists Music Web Links   (Site not responding. Last check: )
If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coachin Ethnomusicologists A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- H. Mencken Ethnomusicologists An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
www.searchmusicnetwork.com /Musicology_Ethnomusicology_Ethnomusicologists.html   (1721 words)

  
 __VERTICAL MUSIC___________________CHANGE YOUR DIRECTION____   (Site not responding. Last check: )
As an ethnomusicologist working in Brazil with the Summer Institute of Linguistics/Wycliffe Bible Translators, it was always my goal to tap into the heart music of a people to reach them most effectively with the message of God's Word in song.
The most challenging job of an ethnomusicologist is when he or she learns the local music system.
After analyzing traditional music, the ethnomusicologist sets Christian song texts, usually provided by a missionary who knows the language, to new tunes in the local musical music system using a style appropriate for the Christian message.
www.verticalmusic.com /index.php?page=resources&cat=4&ID=16   (991 words)

  
 Newswise
A conversation between a white, middle-class ethnomusicologist and a poor fl Mississippi sharecropper named McKinley Morganfield changed the course of music forever and demonstrates the power of anthropological research, according to a University of Arkansas researcher.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - A conversation between a white, middle-class ethnomusicologist and a poor fl Mississippi sharecropper named McKinley Morganfield changed the course of music forever and demonstrates the power of anthropological research, according to a University of Arkansas researcher.
Helper explored the influence of Alan Lomax, an ethnomusicologist and "folk song hunter" who traveled from the Library of Congress to Mississippi in 1941 to record traditional music.
www.newswise.com /articles/view?id=ROCKROLL.UAR   (612 words)

  
 Freemuse: Ngawang Choephel: For love of music
Ngawang Choephel - a Tibetan musician, ethnomusicologist and filmmaker, was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment by the Chinese authorities.
Ngawang Choephel is a 34-year-old musician and ethnomusicologist born in Tibet but brought up in India.
He was educated in India and the United States, specialising in Tibetan music and dance, and in 1994 began planning a film project that would take him back to Tibet to document traditional music and its background.
www.freemuse.org /sw6536.asp   (1224 words)

  
 Slobin on Beregovski (and the survival of Klezmer music), by George Robinson, from the KlezmerShack
But, as ethnomusicologist Mark Slobin points out in his writings and in conversation, klezmer returned history's dubious favors by not only surviving but thriving under the most unlikely circumstances.
The Detroit native contributed significantly to the rebirth of klezmer when he edited and translated a collection of the papers and musical transcriptions of the Soviet ethnomusicologist Moshe Beregovski, who did much of his field work in the 1920s and '30s, difficult times in Russian history to say the least.
To understand the importance of Beregovski's work for students and players of Yiddish music, one need only compare what is available in that field with a comparable records of, other East European folk musics.
www.klezmershack.com /articles/robinson/010830.slobin.html   (1252 words)

  
 Books: Kinship Without Condescension (Weekly Alibi . 02-07-00)
I used to know an ethnomusicologist who once borrowed some clothes from the daughters of a Bedouin leader, a colleague of hers, and helped the daughters to serve their father his evening meal.
The ethnomusicologist was delighted when her colleague didn't recognize her behind the veil and actually shouted at her to mind her manners.
Her work, and her travels, had taught her to respect and even envy the people she visited in their everyday connection with older ways of living and thinking.
weeklywire.com /ww/02-07-00/alibi_bookreview.html   (723 words)

  
 April conference at Illinois to focus on improvisation in music
Ethnomusicologist Bruno Nettl, an emeritus professor in the UI School of Music, is the organizer of "Improvisation: New Directions in the Study of Musical Improvisation," an interdisciplinary and intercultural conference that will be held on campus April 1-4.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Improvisation is a common thread that ethnomusicologist Bruno Nettl has found to be present in the musical practices and traditions of just about every culture he has examined during the past 40 years – whether among the peoples of Iran/Persia and India or the Americ
Since that fantastic notion of improvisation was first planted in Nettl’s young head, the ethnomusicologist has spent a lifetime exploring the subject.
www.news.uiuc.edu /news/04/0316improvisation.html   (540 words)

  
 Directory - Arts: Music: Musicology: Ethnomusicology: Ethnomusicologists   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Contains personal pages of professional Ethnomusicologists (individuals professionally engaged with Ethnomusicology who are members of one or more professional societies).
Lucie Rault  · cached · Biography and a list of publications of this ethnomusicologist who specializes in Chinese music.
Kai Fikentscher  · cached · Listing of publications and lectures by this independent ethnomusicologist.
www.incywincy.com /default?p=5821139   (276 words)

  
 Music at UCC: Staff of the Department of Music
Aileen Dillane (Lecturer): ethnomusicologist and performer specializing in ethnomusicological theory and practice, cultural and critical theory, ethnic and popular musics of Ireland and the US.
Kelly Boyle (Lecturer, part-time): an ethnomusicologist specializing in Irish traditional music, South Indian Karnatic music, and Javanese gamelan.
Mel Mercier (Lecturer): performer, composer and ethnomusicologist specializing in Irish traditional music and African, Indian and Indonesian music.
www.music.ucc.ie /dept/staff.html   (420 words)

  
 Amherst Magazine Winter 2003: Song of the Caravan
Today, in a groundbreaking project, ethnomusicologist Ted Levin ’73 is reviving the cultural treasures of the Silk Road and using music to again tie all the countries of Asia together.
It seems almost absurd to expect the gait that has relentlessly carried the ethnomusicologist through Europe, Asia and the vast, shrouded Central Asian corridor between the two to navigate the tame streets of a college town.
“If you asked a dozen ethnomusicologists what ethnomusicology is, you’d get a dozen different answers,” Levin tells me. “It’s essentially the study of music in its relation to a cultural and a social context; as an aspect of culture.” We’ve reached our destination—a coffee shop in town—and mercifully, we’ve sat down.
www.amherst.edu /magazine/issues/03winter/features/levin.html   (753 words)

  
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Basically the relation between music teachers and ethnomusicologists is one of mutual, and often legitimate, suspicion.
The ethnomusicologist quite often observes that the way music teachers use non-Western music in their classrooms is superficial, if not incompetent.
The solution should be that ethnomusicologists and teachers work intensively together, both contributing the best of their own specialization without invading the domain of the other.
iias.leidenuniv.nl /oideion/journal/issue01/bisschop/conclus.html   (909 words)

  
 Congressional Record: March 11, 1997
Choephel, a Tibetan ethnomusicologist and Fulbright Scholar, returned to Tibet in July 1995 to prepare a documentary film about traditional Tibetan performing arts.
He was detained in August 1995 by the Chinese authorities and held incommunicado for over a year before the Government of the People's Republic of China admitted to holding him, and finally charged him with espionage in October 1996.
Choephel was detained in August 1995 by the Chinese authorities and held incommunicado for over a year before the Government of the People's Republic of China admitted to holding him, and finally charged him with espionage in October 1996; Whereas there is no evidence that Mr.
www.inch.com /~shebar/ngawang/cr110397.htm   (2371 words)

  
 02.20.2002 - Sounds and moves of sub-Saharan Africa
Ethnomusicologist, choreographer and composer C.K. Ladzekpo, a lecturer in music, brings together the talents of four African dance companies in “Kusum Africa: A World Premiere Showcase of New African Choreography,” a production coming to the Zellerbach stage and local schools in early March.
As his African music ensemble class comes to a clattering climax, distinguished Berkeley ethnomusicologist, choreographer and composer C.K. Ladzekpo gives students a last-minute burst of his infectious energy.
Students of many backgrounds play traditional African drums and percussion instruments as they jerk their shoulders, step and sway to Ladzekpo’s lively dance-drumming direction.
www.berkeley.edu /news/berkeleyan/2002/02/20_dance.html   (555 words)

  
 Exploring News & Features - Singing for life in the shadow of AIDS   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In remote villages the problem is worsened by the lack of information and modern medical care.
Barz returned to the Lake Victoria region of Uganda last summer to demonstrate and document the link between a recent decline in Uganda's HIV infection rate and the grassroots efforts of these rural women's groups.
Aida Namulinda is a farmer and the leader of one of the 45 women's groups that the ethnomusicologist studied.
exploration.vanderbilt.edu /news/news_barz.htm   (1529 words)

  
 Music Department - Ethan L. J. Nasreddin-Longo   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ethan L. Nasreddin-Longo is both a composer and ethnomusicologist.
As an ethnomusicologist, he is interested in ethnomusicological approaches to Western art music, Urban Ethnomusicology, and Central Javanese Gamelan, a field in which he has considerable performing experience, notably with Friends of the Gamelan, Inc. He served on the Board of Directors of Friends of the Gamelan between the years 1989-1993.
Nasreddin-Longo has also served as a panelist on the Ethnic and Folk Arts panel of the Illinois Arts Council.
www.music.ucr.edu /people/longo.html   (276 words)

  
 Music Department - Deborah Wong   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Deborah Wong is an ethnomusicologist, specializing in the musics of Thailand and Asian America.
She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. (1991) from the University of Michigan, where she worked with ethnomusicologist Judith Becker; her B.A., magna cum laude (1982), in anthropology and music, is from the University of Pennsylvania.
Her first book, Sounding the Center: History and Aesthetics in Thai Buddhist Ritual (Chicago University Press, 2001), addresses ritual performance about performance and its implications for the cultural politics of Thai court music and dance in late twentieth-century Bangkok.
www.music.ucr.edu /people/wong.html   (347 words)

  
 ethnomusicologist - OneLook Dictionary Search
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ethnomusicologist : Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 10th Edition [home, info]
www.onelook.com /?w=ethnomusicologist   (77 words)

  
 Mbira: A Musical Immigrant from Zimbabwe
Ethnomusicologist traces its origins and impact in the U.S. By Jessica Allen
Washington — Mbira may not be a household word to the average music fan but this unique Zimbabwean music is slowly making its way into the African-American culture, said ethnomusicologist Professor Ernest Brown of Williams College in a telephone link with aficionados at the Book Café in Harare during the launch of a new CD.
The program to discuss the introduction and impact of Mbira music in the United States was sponsored by the Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy in Zimbabwe.
usinfo.state.gov /usa/blackhis/a020703.htm   (725 words)

  
 We Now Have an Ethnomusicologist and World Music Curator of VOA
Brian Q. Silver, long-time chief of VOA’s Urdu Service, is taking on a new and broader role at Voice of America, becoming Ethnomusicologist and World Music Curator for the agency.
Although the title is new, the job reflects the important role that both traditional and contemporary world music has come to play in our programming for the radio, television and Internet audiences we serve worldwide.
In this new position, Brian will utilize his experience and knowledge as an ethnomusicologist to facilitate world music programming throughout the agency, and to organize and maintain a library of national musics that can be used by VOA and its sister entities.
voanews.com /english/About/2007-07-30-ethnomusicologist.cfm   (249 words)

  
 Peace Corps Online | April 20, 2003 - Shaebia: Dr. Cynthia Tse Kimberlin: Ethnomusicologist and Former Peace Corps ...
Cynthia Tse Kimberlin was the first American female of Chinese ancestry to serve in the US Peace Corps in 1962.
Kimberlin: There is a joke that says; an ethnomusicologist is what an ethnomusicologist does.
The reason why the meaning is so difficult to understand sometimes, is that it is not of a particular music rather it is an approach to the study of music.
peacecorpsonline.org /messages/messages/467/2013278.html   (2697 words)

  
 Lomax, Alan --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
U.S. ethnomusicologist, folklorist, and scholar Alan Lomax was known for the groundbreaking work he did in studying and categorizing the music of African Americans in the Deep South.
July 19, 2002, Safety Harbor, Fla.), spent a lifetime crisscrossing the American countryside to document the nation's traditional songs and singers—the 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century music that might otherwise have been forgotten amid the rising flood of 20th-century technology and popular music.
American ethnomusicologist, one of the most dedicated and knowledgeable folk-music scholars of the 20th century.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9312219?tocId=9312219   (756 words)

  
 Ethnomusicologist Appointed To Kluge Center - The Library Today (Library of Congress)
Ethnomusicologist Appointed To Kluge Center - The Library Today (Library of Congress)
Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has appointed Kay Kaufman Shelemay, an ethnomusicologist from Harvard University, to the Chair of Modern Culture in the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.
While in residence at the Kluge Center, Shelemay will pursue research for a book on Ethiopian music and musicians in the United States.
www.loc.gov /today/pr/2007/07-144.html   (445 words)

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