Here you can find the preliminary Programme of ESEM meeting in Ljubljana.

Telemark University College, Rauland, Norway

The Master’s Program in Traditional Arts offers focus areas in folk music and folk art (wood, textile, metal, folk art painting etc.) and provides a foundation of knowledge for students interested in a variety of careers. The program is characterized by a unique combination of theoretical and practical coursework, in which the student’s own creative work is at the core of the curriculum. The structure of the program ensures essential areas are covered, while allowing flexibility for students to pursue different personal and professional interests. The theoretical part is concentrated to the first semester and focuses on methodology, aesthetics, cultural theory and communication theory with particular emphasis on the challenges related to the study and dissemination of traditional art. This course prepares the students for the work on the master project, where combination of theoretical and practical elements is central. Continue reading →

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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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 →

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/

The Gypsy Lore Society established the Gypsy Lore Society Young Scholar’s Prize in Romani Studies for the best unpublished paper by a young scholar on a topic in Gypsy and Traveler Studies.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 →

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 →

Prof. Dr. RÜDIGER SCHUMACHER
1953-2007
ESEM President 2002-2005
ESEM Secretary General 1997-2002
Our Dear Colleague

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