CENTER FOR ETHNOMUSICOLOGY REPORT, FALL 2008
Prepared by : Ana María Ochoa
I. Fall 2008
1. Events
During the past semester the Center for Ethnomusicology organized a series of events, some in association with other Centers or Associations in the university. These included:
- Chris Waterman, Dean , School of the Arts, UCLA (Center for Ethnomusicology Colloquium).
- Denilson Lopes, Communication Studies, UFRJ, Brasil (Center for Ethnomusicology and CSER)
- The New Evidence 1400-1800 Series and the Center for Ethnomusicology Colloquium co-organized talks by Jaime Lara (Chair of the program of Religion and the Arts at Yale Divinity Schoool) and José Pardo Tomás (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain). Special thanks to Giuseppe Gerbino and Susan Boynton for the co-organiztion of these talks.
- Samuel Araujo, Vincenzo Cambria, Sinesio Jeferson Andrade Silva (Laboratorio de Etnomusicologia,UFRJ) presented at our new lunch-dialogues series.
- A Master Class with Charles Marshall, Satsuma Biwa Performer, in association with the institute for Medieval Japanese Studies.
- We also co-sponsored the Fifth Annual Guria Benefit which is hosted annually by Dimensions, the Barnard South Asian Students Association.
The following ensembles were active during the semester in conjunction with the MPP Program:
The Gagaku Ensemble, in association with the Japanese Program.
The Bluegrass Ensemble, Lion in the Grass.
The Brazilian Music Ensemble.
Special thanks to David Novak, Miho Walsh, Louise and Noriyuko Sasaki, Toby King, Adriano Santos and Ole Mathisen for all the work in the ensembles.
Besides this the Center for Ethnomusicology organized a video editing workshop and a grant writing workshop, both taught by Anna Stirr. Other workshops will continue in the Spring.
2. Congratulations, celebrations
Congratulations to Professor Chris Washburne for the publication of his book, Sounding Salsa with Temple University Press.
Congratulations to Elizabeth Keenan and Maurea Landies who received their Ph Ds this Fall.
Congratulations to Matt Sakakeeny who won the Charles Seeger Prize for the most distinguished student paper presented at SEM and Elizabeth Keenan for winning the Wong Tolbert Award for best student paper on the topic of women.
Congratulations to Ryan Skinner for publishing his first his first children's book: Sidikiba's Kora Lesson.
A warm welcome to Julian Albert Luker, son of Morgan Luker and Ruth Wikler-Luker who was born on December 3 at 1.13 am at Meriter hospital in Madison, Wisconsin. read more »
The Center for Ethnomusicology holds copies of, and rights to, the Laura Boulton Collection of Traditional Music, consisting of field recordings of folk and traditional musics made around the world by collector Laura Boulton, from the 1930s through the 1960s. In 1933 and again in 1940, Boulton recorded a total of 129 Hopi songs, ranging from secular to spiritual genres. (The 1933 recordings were made at the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition; the 1940 recordings at Hopi.)