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Archive for January, 2008
January 28, 2008 at 2:41 pm · Filed under Music, Sociology/Anthropology
The Music of War: An Interdisciplinary Conference
April 18-19, 2008
Stonehill College, Easton, MA
CONFERENCE OVERVIEW
This interdisciplinary conference will explore the diverse musical responses to war, ranging from the various types of traditional war protest music to the music of soldiers and comrades-in-arms to patriotic and nationalistic music from a global perspective.
The conference will cap a year-long study of war at The Martin Institute—its politics, history, social and cultural effects—and will seek to analyze the complex relationship between war and music. As an example of The Martin Institute’s commitment to the power of crossing disciplinary borders, we welcome papers from a range of experts in fields such as music theory and history, musical theater, sociology, history, anthropology, political science, cultural studies, and literature.
January 23, 2008 at 11:28 am · Filed under Sociology/Anthropology
THE ATLANTIC WORLD AND AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE AND CULTURE IN THE GEORGIA LOWCOUNTRY: 18TH TO THE 20TH CENTURY
Symposium February 27-29, 2008
Savannah, Georgia
Get the scoop and register ($3, yes, $3.00) here.
January 14, 2008 at 12:06 pm · Filed under Music, Sociology/Anthropology
The following appeared on the SEM listserv:
Deadline Reminder: February 18, 2008
Please note revised dates of 2009 Summer Institute (June 7-20, 2009)
EVIA Digital Archive Project
2009 Call for Depositors
The Ethnographic Video for Instruction and Analysis (EVIA) Digital Archive project seeks applications from scholars in the fields of ethnomusicology, folklore, anthropology and dance studies wishing to become participants in the project and depositors to the archive. Participation entails submitting approximately ten hours of original, unedited, field video recordings for inclusion in the Archive, and a commitment to annotating this collection during an intensive two-week Summer Institute to be held in Bloomington, Indiana from June 7-20, 2009. An “original, unedited, field video recording” is a recording in which the event(s) filmed have not been altered in any way and they appear on the original video tape exactly as the ethnographer recorded them and in exactly the same sequence in which they were recorded. Because the EVIA Digital Archive is a kind of scholarly publication, depositor’s completed annotations will go through a peer review process. Depositors may request a tenure and promotion review DVD specifically created by our programmers for tenure and promotion committees.
Deposition entails submitting to the Archive the ethnographer’s original tapes containing the ten hours to be annotated. Each depositor’s source video recordings are encoded at a high quality level for long-term digital storage in the Archives of Traditional Music (ATM). Depositors can either retain their original recordings or opt to have them stored at the ATM as well. Streamable versions of these recordings are then created for annotation and for ultimate delivery over the internet where they will be accessed by scholars, researchers, and educators.
Candidates whose applications are accepted will receive a $2,000 honorarium upon completion of their annotations by the designated deadline. The EVIA Digital Archive will provide travel to the Summer Institute as well as food and accommodation during the Institute.
Those interested in applying should complete the application form found at http://www.indiana.edu/~eviada. Applications should be accompanied by a five-minute video sample on VHS cassette or miniDV. The video sample should contain a cross-section of the best video footage of the proposed ten hour collection. If you have any questions about the video sample please contact us: eviada@indiana.edu or call 812-856-1323.
Applications should be postmarked by February 18, 2008. Successful candidates will be notified by April 14, 2008 and at that time will be given instructions for submitting their video materials for immediate digital ingestion and archiving. Before submitting an application please read carefully the Annotation/Deposition Process below for a fuller description of the ingestion process, the Summer Institute, and the time commitment involved. Please contact us if you have any questions about the project, your collection, or your proposal.
About the EVIA Digital Archive Project
The EVIA Digital Archive project is a joint effort of Indiana University and the University of Michigan to establish a digital archive of annotated ethnographic field video. Based in the Archives of Traditional Music, the EVIA Digital Archive is designed to preserve original, unedited, video recordings and make them easily accessible for teaching and research, providing an alternative to physical archives whose unique materials are available only to people who travel to the archive location. Experts in the fields of ethnomusicology, archiving, cataloging, video and computer technology, programming, intellectual property, and digital technology have worked together designing the archive through a grant funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Indiana University, and the University of Michigan. Using the large bandwidth capabilities of Internet2, the EVIA Digital Archive project will provide high quality video streams to scholars for new research endeavors and to educators for creating rich learning experiences.
The Annotation/Deposition Process
Participation in the EVIA Digital Archive provides depositors with an opportunity to preserve ten hours of their unedited field video recordings using the latest technologies for digital video preservation. Successful applicants will attend the EVIA Digital Archive Summer Institute to be held June 14-27, 2009 at Indiana University, Bloomington. During each day of the Summer Institute, depositors will take part in intensive sessions during which they will write descriptive and analytical annotations time-coded to their field recordings through the use of an innovative new software interface, the Annotator’s Workbench, developed specifically for the EVIA Digital Archive. As depositors preview their video recordings they will use the Annotator’s Workbench to annotate at multiple levels of analysis, from the general to the specific, segmenting their collection into events, scenes, and actions. In addition, they will be able to create glossary entries, insert citations, assign controlled vocabulary, block access to sensitive material, create links between segments of their collections, and provide text transcriptions and translations. Time will also be set aside for participants to engage in formal discussions on issues relating to the annotation process and to the challenges and rewards of working with ethnographic field video.
Ingestion of each depositor’s ten hours of video is a long process which must begin before June 2008 in order to ensure that all digital files will be ready for annotation by the Summer Institute in June 2009. In April 2008 successful candidates will begin completing data forms for each tape to be submitted and will then send their original tapes to our production facility at the University of Michigan. In the spring of 2009 depositors will have access to their digitized materials as processed. Beginning February 2009, depositors will take part in a series of twice monthly online interactive workshops with the EVIA Digital Archive programmers who will orient them to the Annotator’s Workbench, the project’s custom software tool, and help them begin preliminary annotations. Full annotations will be completed during the 2009 Summer Institute.
Evaluation of Proposals
Approximately ten depositors can be accepted in this round of production. Proposals will be evaluated by the EVIA Digital Archive editorial board comprised of ten distinguished scholars with extensive experience in ethnography and in working with field video recordings. Factors they will consider include:
1. Significance of the material
2. Geographic representation in relation to the Archive contents as a whole
3. Relevance of materials to published scholarly work
4. The Archive’s ability to accommodate the formats and condition of the original tapes.
Intellectual Property and Ethical Issues
In order to safeguard rights to privacy and intellectual/cultural property, access to materials deposited in the EVIA Digital Archive will be restricted to educational use. Provisions have been made for depositors to render inaccessible segments of video that are deemed politically, culturally, or personally sensitive, either permanently or for a specified period of time. Depositors will be required to sign a non-exclusive license with the EVIA Digital Archive in order to provide internet access to their materials. They will also be required to provide a statement attesting they have permission of the subjects of their recordings to make their content available over the internet.
Submission Details
Application forms should be submitted by email (eviada@indiana.edu) and by regular mail. Hard copies of the form and video sample tapes must be postmarked by February 18, 2008 and mailed to the following address:
EVIA Digital Archive Project
2009 Depositor Applications
Herman B. Wells Library E951
1320 E. 10th St.
Bloomington IN 47405 USA
January 11, 2008 at 8:19 am · Filed under Music
Following is a description of a new database available freely online. Access it here.
“This database is the result of a three-year project (2004–07), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and hosted by Cardiff University and the Royal College of Music. It provides descriptions of concert programme collections held by leading libraries, archives and museums in the UK and Ireland, thereby improving access to a vital source of information about musical life from the eighteenth century to the present day.
The database is intended as a guide to finding programme collections, rather than providing full details of the content of individual programmes. The institutional coverage is extensive and includes the British Library, the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Bodleian Library, Oxford and the national libraries of Scotland and Ireland, as well as repositories in Aldeburgh, Birmingham, Bradford, Cardiff, Cheltenham, Edinburgh, Leeds and Manchester.”
January 9, 2008 at 11:05 am · Filed under Music, Sociology/Anthropology
The following call for membership appeared on the SEM listserv:
Dear colleagues,
In the wake of dramatic rise in interest among scholars in the
ethnomusicology of violence, conflict, traumatic experience,
and resolution, a number of us are putting together an SEM
special interest group to address and discuss these issues,
called tentatively the SEM “Special Interest Group on Music
and Violence.” We hope to reflect in our membership the
diversity of approaches to the study of music, aural culture
and violence, inclusive of those who work on music, conflict,
resolution, war and peace studies, gender, traumatic
experience, sound, music and social domination, and so on.
We plan to meet annually at SEM, support panels, roundtables,
workshops and media presentations at SEM, form alliances with
other special interest groups to promote research,
presentation and publication, and found an email list. We
will hold our first ever special interest group meeting at the
2008 SEM annual conference, where we will decide on goals and
the organizational structure, and initiate projects for the
coming years. We hope to see many, many of you there.
In order for any of this to happen first of all we need to
amass a membership to report to the SEM Board of Directors as
we place our application to the Board for recognition as a
special interest group. Many of you have already expressed an
interest to us in participating in the group. We would be
much obliged if you would send us a short email (even just
’sign me up’ in the subject line will do, but please include
your name, institution (if any), and address) to
jdpilzer@uchicago.edu
. We will include you in our membership
and mailing list (if you like), and look forward to seeing you
all at our first ever section meeting! All best wishes,
Joshua D. Pilzer, Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow, Columbia
University
Jenny Olivia Johnson, PhD Candidate, New York University
co-chairs
January 9, 2008 at 11:04 am · Filed under Uncategorized
Here’s a nifty Facebook application which will allow you to search library catalogs worldwide, including those nearest you. WorldCat is the same database that librarians use for identifying sources for interlibrary loans. It’s available freely online at http://worldcat.org/
The Facebook application (which is inexplicably not available via the Facebook application search) is available here. (Thanks, Debra!)
January 9, 2008 at 11:01 am · Filed under Sociology/Anthropology
The ASA and AAA have established a link with ANSS, the Anthropology and Sociology Section of the Association of College & Research Libraries. Take a look.
January 9, 2008 at 10:53 am · Filed under Music
Where in the world is Dr. Braz? Click here to locate him.
January 9, 2008 at 10:51 am · Filed under Uncategorized
Listen to some new books at Henderson Library (or wherever you like)!
Here’s the scoop.
January 9, 2008 at 9:34 am · Filed under Uncategorized
Welcome to Mesoj, a blog about languages, music, sociology, & anthropology, by a librarian specializing in these subjects. The Shqip word “mesoj” (pronounced muss-SOY) from Albania, where your blogger was once a schoolteacher, has three alternate meanings: I learn, I study, or I teach.
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