Blogging Ethnomusicology
Here are a couple of blogs that might be of interest to you– one on music and sustainability, and one on ethnographic fieldwork on techno & house music in Detroit.
Mesoj
What's new in music, sociology, anthropology, and women's & gender studies…from your librarianArchive for April, 2009
GSU-NOW at Rhodes
Our own GSU-NOW, presenting & representing at Rhodes. Check it out. (Thanks, Lori!)
Disappearing Islands
“Climate change is forcing coastal archaeologists to expedite their digs, the Associated Press reported earlier this month. Sea levels are expected to rise 39 inches by 2100, compared to seven inches in the past century, as a result of global warming.” Full story here, from the American Anthropological Association.
Even isolated cultures understand emotions conveyed by Western music
The question of universal perceptions of music is explored in this fascinating study.
From Cinderella to Spider-Man
This will be of interest to people in the Women’s & Gender Studies program. Here’s an article about gender stereotypes in the movies, recommended by colleagues at two universities. (Thanks, Kay and Nancy!)
Berea College Appalachian Sound Archives Fellowships 2010
The following announcement is being circulated:
Berea College Appalachian Sound Archives Fellowships 2010
The purpose of the Berea College Sound Archives Fellowship Program (formerly Music Archives Fellowship) is to encourage scholarly use of Berea’s non-commercial audio collections that document Appalachian history and culture.
These recordings are especially strong in the areas of traditional music, religious expression, spoken lore and radio programs. They include extensive documentation of fiddle and banjo tunes; ballads and songs; Old Regular Baptist singing and preaching; folktales and legends; and related interviews with musicians, preachers, and storytellers, 1950 to the present. Radio material heard in the region for the years 1936 to the mid 1950s, documents a wide range of Kentucky, national, and world political figures and events. Entertainment programs include country music, soap operas, musical variety shows and sporting events.
Fellowship awards are made for a period of one to three months in support of research projects that will contribute to the preservation or promotion of these resources.
The fellowships must be taken up between July 2009 and June 2010. Fellows are expected to be in residence during the term of the fellowship and are encouraged to participate in campus and community activities. Stipend: $3000/month.
Deadline for proposals: June 1, 2009 for July through December 2009. December 1 for January through June 2010.
There is no application form. Applicants are asked to submit a proposal that addresses (1) their interest in the particular subject area, (2) description of the project specifying which Berea collections will be made use of, (3) anticipated research outcomes (e.g., print publications, audio / video documentaries, tune transcriptions, lesson plans, public performances, web based resources), (4) the length of time needed for the project (one month minimum, three months maximum), and (5) preferred dates of residence. Also required are three letters of recommendation from colleagues familiar with the applicant’s work. For graduate degree candidates, the recommendations must include those of the professor directing the applicant’s research. Applicants are responsible for contacting all persons providing recommendations.
For information about Berea’s Sound Archives and other traditional music collections, see www.berea.edu/hutchinslibrary/specialcollections/specialsound.asp
Proposals or inquires should be sent to
Harry Rice
Special Collections & Archives
Berea College
Berea, KY 40404
harry_rice@berea.edu
For additional information:
Berea’s Appalachian Music Fellowship Web Page: http://www.berea.edu/hutchinslibrary/specialcollections/amfp.asp
Proposals or inquiries: harry_rice@berea.edu
[This announcement was posted April 3, 2009]
Saving Native American languages
“More than 2,400 languages around the world are in danger of extinction, according to Unesco, and the US is second only to India in having the highest number of endangered languages.”
Full story here. (Thanks, Heidi!)
KnowLA, the Online Encyclopedia of Louisiana History and Culture
Call for Contributors
KnowLA, the Online Encyclopedia of Louisiana History and Culture
The editors of KnowLA seek contributors for a new online encyclopedia of
Louisiana history and culture. Sponsored by the Louisiana Endowment for
the Humanities (LEH), KnowLA will be a comprehensive, dynamic online
reference on the peoples, places, cultures, events, and institutions of
Louisiana. The site will include entries with images, streaming audio and
video files, as well as interactive timelines integrated into the texts.
While we will eventually include entries on a wide variety of topics, we
are currently seeking writers for the entries listed below. Entries will
vary in length from short (up to 500 words) to medium (up to 1,000
words) to long (up to 1,500 words). Overview entries will, in most cases
be between 2,000 and 4,000 words in length, and are intended as general
introductions to the topic.
Small stipends are available and entries will be signed. More information
about the project, including our writers’ guidelines, can be seen on our
web page: www.knowla.org.
Preference will be given to scholars and advanced graduate students,
preferably with publications on the topic.
Please keep in mind that this in only a preliminary list of high priority
entries. Many entries have already been assigned and many more are yet to
come. Any suggestions you’d like to make are welcome.
If you are interested in writing an entry on the topics listed below,
please contact Joyce Miller, Associate Editor, KnowLA, Louisiana Endowment
for the Humanities, 938 Lafayette St., Suite 300, New Orleans, LA 70113;
miller@leh.org
KnowLA Entries Still Needed
(all entries are to focus on the topic in Louisiana)
Art
African American art in LA
Native American art
Public art
Louisiana women artists
Architectural Art (murals, friezes, etc.)
Decorative Arts
Printmaking (engraving)
Sculpture
Statues/Memorials
Natchitoches Art Colony
Images of Louisiana in Art
Bultman, Fritz
Dureau, George
History
Overview Entries:
Bourbon Louisiana, 1877-1924
Late 20th-century Louisiana, 1960-1999
Medium to Long Entries:
Battle of New Orleans
Neutral Strip
Sharecropping/Peonage
Anti-Secessionism/Unionism in LA
Louisiana Women in the Civil War and Reconstruction
Women in antebellum Louisiana
“Head and Master” Law
Marital/Divorce Law
“Right to Work” Laws
Vietnam War in LA
Louisiana and World War I
Prohibition/Temperance
Compromise of 1877
Anti-Longism
Louisiana Lottery
Industrialization
Legalized Gambling
Organized Labor
Native Americans in 20th- and 21st- century Louisiana
Native American Tribes:
Atakapa Tribe
Cherokee Tribe
Chickasaw Tribe
Taensa Tribe
Tunica Tribe
Literature
Literature by Creoles
Creoles in Literature
“Local Color” Fiction
Children’s literature (in Louisiana)
Louisiana Poet Laureates
Cookbooks (in Louisiana)
Drama (in Louisiana)
Nature Writing (in Louisiana)
Poetry (in Louisiana)
Slave narratives (in Louisiana)
Images of Louisiana in literature
Brooks, Cleanth
Grau, Shirley Ann
Poydras, Julian
Rice, Anne
Scott, Evelyn
Music
Cajun Dancing
Native American musical traditions
Buckwheat Zydeco
Chavis, Boozoo
Dural, Stanley and Buckwheat Zydeco
Guy, George “Buddy”
Henry, Clarence “Frogman”
Johnson, Bunk
Marsalis Family
Toussaint, Allen
