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Category: music
01/03/10
Hindi Film Songs and the Barriers between Ethnomusicology and Anthropology
----Review: Hindi Film Songs and the Cinema by Anna Morcom 2007, Ashgate, ISBN 978-0-7546-5198-7Tereza Kuldova, Research Fellow, Museum of Cultural History, Department of Ethnography University of Oslo[video:youtube:6B1I56Q4swE]Popular mu… more »
22/10/09
14:46:41, by Lorenz 
. Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), music, Visual Anthropology, internet Interview: Meet Dai Cooper from The Anthropology Song!
Dai Cooper's Anthropology Song has fascinated people all over the world. Around 10 000 people have seen the video on YouTube so far, it was sent around via facebook, twitter, mailing lists, and was already shown in many anthropology classes. Maybe nobody… more »
06/09/09
23:00:26, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, music, history, internet, websites Oral history, folk music and more: British Library puts vast sound archive online
Wow! Overwhelming! The British Library has made more than 23 000 sound recordings from all over the world freely available to everyone at http://sounds.bl.uk
"World and traditional music", "oral history", "accents and dialects", "environment and natu… more »
12/11/08
00:09:58, by Lorenz . Categories: Asia, globalisation, books, music, youth, journal articles / papers Reggae, Punk and Death Metal: An Ethnography from the unknown Bali
"This is a break from the norm of writing about Bali", writes Laura Noszlopy enthusiastically about a new book by anthropologist Emma Baulch called "Making scenes: reggae, punk, and death metal in 1990s Bali".
In 1996, Emma Baulch went to live in Bal… more »
13/08/08
17:54:07, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, Us and Them, Asia, globalisation, music Ainu in Japan: Cool to be indigenous
Better times for the Ainu in Japan? There is an "revival of ethnic pride" going on in Japan according to ap.
At the forefront are the Ainu Rebels (image). They use music and dance to rebel against a history of institutionalized discrimination. They c… more »
03/08/08
16:15:59, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, Us and Them, globalisation, music, Visual Anthropology, cosmopolitanism Anthropologist explores heavy metal in Asia, South America and the Middle East
In 2005 his movie Metal - A Headbanger's journey took the world with storm. Now anthropologist and metal musician Sam Dunn has released "Global Metal" - a film about the global expansion of heavy metal music.
Together with his co-director Scot McFayde… more »
27/09/07
Society for Ethnomusicology condemns use of music in torture
(via Savage Minds) Can a discussion about the use of music in torture shed new perspectives in our debates about the use of anthropological knowledge in torture, askes Kerim Friedman on Savage Minds. Jason Baird Jackson points in his comment to the Soci… more »
02/07/07
How to save Tibetan folk songs? Put them online!
More and more Tibetan folk songs are disappearing. Led by anthropology professor Gerald Roche, the Tibetan Endangered Music Project (TEMP) uses digital media to capture tunes that are being lost. The volunteer-run program aims to put all the digital song… more »
28/02/07
12:36:22, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, culture traditions, aboriginees, fieldwork / methods, music "A new approach to the collection of traditional Aboriginal music"
The days of anthropologists taking recordings away to Canberra where they might as well be lost to the community forever, are now gone according to ABC Radio (Australia) in a story about the National Recording Project. Its aim is to document the traditio… more »
15/10/06
Multimedia Music Ethnography of Yodelling and Alphorn Blowing
A new interactive multimedia-website was launched about Swiss folk music including an Alphorn Tune Composer. On www.swissalpinemusic.ch you can read about alphorn music and yodelling, on alpine traditions and so on but the best thing is that you can list… more »
09/10/06
02:11:52, by Lorenz . Categories: fieldwork / methods, music, youth, journal articles / papers, Visual Anthropology Play as research method - new Anthropology Matters is out
In the field, anthropologists spent lots of time playing football or learning to dance: Could such enjoyable pastimes be considered a kind of work? Could play be used as a research technique? The new issue of Anthropology Matters is out. Its topic: From… more »
25/01/06
19:15:59, by Lorenz . Categories: Africa, applied anthropology, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, books, music, interdisciplinary The emerging research field of medical ethnomusicology: How music fights AIDS
In a new book, Gregory F. Barz, professor of ethnomusicology at Vanderbilt University documents the effective role music and the arts are playing in the fight against AIDS in Uganda. It's according to the official press release the first book of an emer… more »
11/09/05
18:31:39, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Africa, Europe, Latin- and Central America, books, Northern America, migration, Native American, anthropology (general), music American Ethnologist - New book reviews on Indian Resurgence in Brazil, Anthropology of Britain, Race and Transnationalism
The August reviews of the journal American Ethnologist are now online.
Among them we'll find:
Mapping Yoruba Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities. By: Kamari Maxine Clarke
Kamari Clarke is an Afro-Canadian who join… more »
10/08/05
On the Roots of Ethnic Music: Identity and Global Romanticism - Open Access Musicology Journal
Tellef Kvifte, Popular Musicology Online
Folk music and popular music represent in many ways two distinct cultural spheres with few contact points. The 'folk' in the folk music tradition are a construct of the national romantic era, usually referring… more »
14/06/05
Ethnomusicologist uses website as an extension of the book
(via Fieldnotes): Ethnomusicologist Aaron Fox has set up a website and blog as an "extension of the book": "I'm not going to republish the book on the site, but the book deals so much with sound that I had to make it possible for people to hear the music… more »
27/05/05
Dance Anthropology: "Even when borders blur, dance movements retain ethnic roots"
SanDiego.com Union TribuneThe way we move tells us who we are. The rhythm of our walk, the sports we play and our dances define us as individuals and cultures. Movement also can cross borders. That makes modern dance a stunning example of global comm… more »
01/04/05
16:48:53, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, technology, anthropology (general), music Smithsonian Folkways to Open MP3 Music Store
Washington Post
The Smithsonian Institution is entering the highly competitive world of music downloads by offering the Smithsonian Folkways collection of ethnic and traditional music in an online music store. Smithsonian Global Sound, the new project… more »
13/03/05
Socially conscious hip-hop is worldwide phenomenon
Canadian Press
Somali-born rapper K'naan says hip-hop records helped him cope with his country's civil war, his adolescence as a refugee and his life as an immigrant in North America. "It's a whole new thing that is happening, even in villages in Afri… more »
31/01/05
10:39:27, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, culture traditions, applied anthropology, music, internet Anthropologists wonder about iPod-culture
Detroit News
Portable music players create their own culture. iPod users, who also call themselves "iPeople," say they can't get enough of the music downloaded from computer hard drives, the Internet and CD collections. Cultural anthropologists and te… more »
24/01/05
"Pop culture is a powerful tool to promote national integration"
RedNova News
WHEN reality television show Malaysian Idol came under attack last year, Dr Wan Zawawi Ibrahim, a professor of social anthropology, was one of the few academics who came to its defence. He is optimistic of pop culture's positive effect on… more »
19/10/04
08:20:30, by Lorenz . Categories: ecology nature, fieldwork / methods, anthropology (general), music Acoustic Environments in Change - a multi-disciplinary project
Department of Music Anthropology, University of Tampere (Finland)
The Department of Music Anthropology is an indisputable pioneer of soundscape research in Finland. "The word has been used to describe the field of sounds that surrounds us: noise, musi… more »
17/10/04
13:18:22, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, Europe, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, fieldwork / methods, music, journal articles / papers, tourism The Anthropologist as Barman - Durham Anthropology Journal fulltext online
Adam R. Kaul, Durham Anthropology Journal
My doctoral research looks at the way in which tourism is changing and interacting with the performance and meaning of traditional Irish music. I carried out over 14 months of fieldwork in a small, rural Irish… more »
26/07/04
08:59:15, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Saami, music, Arctic / Northern Regions Riddu Riddu Update: Nunavik rocks Norway
Nunatsiaq News
Nunavik performers had enthusiastic audiences at last week's Riddu Riddu festival in Arctic Norway, where attendance at the circumpolar arts, music and culture bash broke all previous records.
Some Sámi now consider Riddu Riddu to ha… more »
22/07/04
Cultures of Music Piracy: An Ethnographic Comparison of the US and Japan
Marc Erickson, channels.lockergnome.com
Ian Condry: "What is this culture of piracy and what is at stake in trying to change it? In this essay, I take an ethnographic look at music file sharing, and compare the situation in the US with Japan. My findi… more »
Music and Socitiety in South Africa - Interview with Jonny Clegg
allAfrica.com
"I came from a country that forbade the mixing of culture, through cultural segregation and other enforced laws, so I was immediately attracted to the other side. Anthropology was a natural continuation of an interest I developed at the… more »
21/07/04
15:29:54, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, inuit, Saami, anthropology (general), music, Arctic / Northern Regions Riddu Riddu - Indigenous Festival (1) - The Bands
Back from the festival, here are some links to some bands that played in Manndalen, Kåfjord community in Northern Norway
Drum Drum from Papua New Guinea
Wai, Maori-band from New Zealand
Taima, Inuit band from Canada
Johan Sara jr - Saami Band… more »
13/07/04
Riddu Riddu! Offline!
I'll be offline for one week to attend the Saami Indigenous Festival "Riddu Riddu" in Northern Norway.
From the self-description: "Northern guests of this year are the Inuit people from Nunavik in Canada and for the very first time we have the pleasur… more »
07/07/04
The Rediff Interview/Nandini Chattopadhyay: Music and Protest
Rediff India
"I was doing my first major anthropology project studying the Baul protest movement and how it used music to talk about injustice, superstitions and hypocrisy. In Brazil too some of its most popular music and dance started in the ghettos… more »
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