Some of you have already heard about DISMARC (DIScovering Music ARChives) – the EU co-funded project uniting Europe’s music archives and presenting the results to a global audience.
By 2010, the EU intends to have a fully functioning new portal Europeana – the Europe’s flagship digital library, supported by the EU’s i2010 initiative. Its aim is to present Europe’s digital cultural heritage to the world.
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New Master: Ethnomusicology and the Anthropology of Dance (EMAD)
This year a new master programme starts at the l’Universite Paris Ouest Nanterre 2009/2010. Please see the attached information for more details (also in French). Continue reading
Ethnomusicological Blogs
Barbara Alge, Ethnomusicologist, now based in Vienna at the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, compiled a list of ethnomusicological blogs. The list can be found on her blog: http://ethnomblogs.blogspot.com/
Call for Papers on Gypsy Lore: Young Scholar’s Prize in Romani Studies
The Gypsy Lore Society established the Gypsy Lore Society Young Scholar’s Prize in Romani Studies for the best unpublished paper by a young scholar on a topic in Gypsy and Traveler Studies. The prize is a cash award of $500. The winning paper will be published, after any necessary revisions, in an issue of the journal Romani Studies. Continue reading
Archival Sound Recordings: World and Traditional Music Online
Music without walls – world and traditional music online
From Indian ritual music to bawdy English pub songs to Ugandan court music to Nigerian Highlife, the British Library’s collections of world and traditional music are emerging from the shelves of the Sound Archive and appearing on the Archival Sound Recordings website. Continue reading
Obituary
Prof. Dr. RÜDIGER SCHUMACHER
1953-2007
ESEM President 2002-2005
ESEM Secretary General 1997-2002
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