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'''WELCOME TO THE CANADIAN CENTRE FOR ETHNOMUSICOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA!'''


short link:  http://bit.ly/ccewiki
[http://frishkopf.org Michael Frishkopf, Director]
(older parts of this wiki are archived [https://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/fwa_mediawiki/index.php/Canadian_Centre_for_Ethnomusicology_Wiki_(archived) here]).


New URL: '''http://CCE.UALBERTA.CA'''


[https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/viewer?mid=1x6RfXWiHcvIw6DzghVTPBk6Ddow MAP of key CCE locations on campus]
[https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/viewer?mid=1x6RfXWiHcvIw6DzghVTPBk6Ddow MAP of key CCE locations on campus]


([https://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/fwa_mediawiki/index.php/Canadian_Centre_for_Ethnomusicology_Wiki_(archived) Former wiki -- including ethnomusicology course syllabi -- is archived here]). Please consult for any broken links below.
[[Image:ccelogo.png|thumb|1000px|center|border|]]
'''Upcoming events:'''
* KOREAN MUSIC WORKSHOP.  Intercultural Improvisation Workshop: Korean Shaman Ritual Sinawi Improvisation. This workshop, led by Korean piri master Gamin and members of her Korean ensemble in residence at the University of Alberta, will talk about Korean Shaman ‘Sinawi’ ritual music and teach Korean scales, melodies and rhythms from which participants will learn to improvise in the sinawi tradition. The workshop will also talk about using  improvisation in the context of  intercultural collaboration. Friday Nov 24, 10 am - 12 pm, Fine Arts Building 1-23.  Please bring an instrument, or just come to listen!
* World Music Concert for International Week - Jan 31, 2018. 7 pm, Convocation Hall.


'''Other useful links:'''


[[Image:ccelogo.png|thumb|1000px|center|border|]]
* [https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ualberta.ca_iv0fgl5oacq5livm1smudl0k8c%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Edmonton CCE Calendar]
* [http://www.mailman.srv.ualberta.ca/mailman/listinfo/cce-people Join our listserv]
* [https://www.facebook.com/groups/cce.people Join our FB group]






'''WELCOME TO THE CANADIAN CENTRE FOR ETHNOMUSICOLOGY!'''


[http://frishkopf.org Michael Frishkopf, Director]
= Overview =


CCE's primary mission is "musical sound for the public good", including five primary ethnomusicological activities:  archiving, dissemination, research, teaching, and outreach - with a focus on ''human development'': improving the world through music.  Here "music" is defined as broadly as possible, to denote  "humanly meaningful sound, along with its associated behaviors, social organizations, meanings, and materialities."  Thus "music" includes music, but also chant or speech, as well as associated rituals, performances, gatherings, movements, texts, musical instruments, concepts and theories, and all talk about music.  (Dance and poetry are a kind of "music" using this broad definition, as are ritual chants and musical aesthetics; in fact "ethnomusicology" itself is a kind of music, leading to "metaethnomusicology": the ethnomusicology of ethnomusicology itself!)  CCE activities go beyond the ordinary duties of faculty and students (to teach, learn, research), by working collaboratively, outside the usual scope of university practices, to address (directly or indirectly) the larger social issues of our times.
CCE's primary mission is to work towards ''musical sound for the public good'', including five primary ethnomusicological activities:  archiving, dissemination, research, teaching, and outreach - with a focus on ''human development'': improving the world through music.  Here "music" is defined as broadly as possible, to denote  "humanly meaningful sound, along with its associated behaviors, social organizations, meanings, and materialities."  Thus "music" includes music, but also chant or speech, as well as associated rituals, performances, gatherings, movements, texts, musical instruments, concepts and theories, and all talk about music.  (Dance and poetry are a kind of "music" using this broad definition, as are ritual chants and musical aesthetics; in fact "ethnomusicology" itself is a kind of music, leading to "metaethnomusicology": the ethnomusicology of ethnomusicology itself!)  CCE activities go beyond the ordinary duties of faculty and students (to teach, learn, research), by working collaboratively, outside the usual scope of university practices, to address (directly or indirectly) the larger social issues of our times.


At the hub of the [http://www.music.museums.ualberta.ca/CanadianCentreForEthnomusicology.aspx Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology] (CCE), housed under the [https://uofa.ualberta.ca/music Department of Music] and [http://www.museums.ualberta.ca/ University of Alberta Museums], is a world music archive (both digital and physical) serving as a research and teaching resource for musical and cultural traditions, locally and internationally. Revolving around this hub is a range of research, teaching, performance, and community outreach projects, including the  [http://m4ghd.org Music for Global Human Development] project (m4ghd.org), K-12 education, and world music ensembles. CCE connects to a broad spectrum of academic disciplines across the Faculty of Arts, but extending also to Education and the health sciences, through the initiative entitled Songs for Sustainable Peace and Development, which has resulted in ongoing global health projects in Liberia, Ghana, and Ethiopia. CCE projects may result in printed texts (books and articles), exhibitions, conferences, symposia, concerts and workshops, or in a variety of media, including audio, video, websites, and virtual reality models.
At the hub of the [http://www.music.museums.ualberta.ca/CanadianCentreForEthnomusicology.aspx Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology] (CCE), housed under the [https://uofa.ualberta.ca/music Department of Music] and [http://www.museums.ualberta.ca/ University of Alberta Museums], is a world music archive (both digital and physical) serving as a research and teaching resource for musical and cultural traditions, locally and internationally. Revolving around this hub is a range of research, teaching, performance, and community outreach projects, including the  [http://m4ghd.org Music for Global Human Development] project (m4ghd.org), K-12 education, and world music ensembles. CCE connects to a broad spectrum of academic disciplines across the Faculty of Arts, but extending also to Education and the health sciences, through the initiative entitled Songs for Sustainable Peace and Development, which has resulted in ongoing global health projects in Liberia, Ghana, and Ethiopia. CCE projects may result in printed texts (books and articles), exhibitions, conferences, symposia, concerts and workshops, or in a variety of media, including audio, video, websites, and virtual reality models.
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The archival collection includes diverse instruments and more than 4000 titles in audio/video recordings. World music groups include the Indian Music Ensemble, West African Music Ensemble, and [http://bit.ly/mename Middle Eastern and North African Music Ensemble], all functioning as teaching centers as well as providing outreach to local Edmonton events.  We also run a [http://bit.ly/ghanamusic Summer Study Abroad Program in Ghana], and a weekly noon series of lectures, activities, and workshops, every Wednesday noon - 1 pm in 3-47 Old Arts. The Centre helps students, staff, faculty and the general public at large to understand how people use music to connect, express, and create community and identity, and helps to effect positive change through such activities. Working locally, nationally, and globally, the CCE is of value to students and faculty in the social sciences, humanities, education, and fine arts.'''
The archival collection includes diverse instruments and more than 4000 titles in audio/video recordings. World music groups include the Indian Music Ensemble, West African Music Ensemble, and [http://bit.ly/mename Middle Eastern and North African Music Ensemble], all functioning as teaching centers as well as providing outreach to local Edmonton events.  We also run a [http://bit.ly/ghanamusic Summer Study Abroad Program in Ghana], and a weekly noon series of lectures, activities, and workshops, every Wednesday noon - 1 pm in 3-47 Old Arts. The Centre helps students, staff, faculty and the general public at large to understand how people use music to connect, express, and create community and identity, and helps to effect positive change through such activities. Working locally, nationally, and globally, the CCE is of value to students and faculty in the social sciences, humanities, education, and fine arts.'''


The CCE team is every changing - each project may have a different set of participants, including faculty, staff, and students at the UofA, and others in a range of communities from Edmonton, to Alberta, to Canada, and beyond.  Many volunteer. When funding is available, we often employ students and others to work on these projects as Research Assistants.  We hold a weekly series of meetings in 3-47 Old Arts, each Wednesday from noon to 1 pm.  These meetings  range in formality, from discussions to lecture presentations or workshop performances, sometimes involving out of town guests, and sometimes students and faculty at the UofA.  Please join our mailing list (see below) to be kept abreast of the schedule.
The CCE team is ever changing - each project may have a different set of participants, including faculty, staff, and students at the UofA, and others in a range of communities from Edmonton, to Alberta, to Canada, and beyond.  Many volunteer. When funding is available, we often employ students and others to work on these projects as Research Assistants.  We hold a weekly series of meetings in 3-47 Old Arts, each Wednesday from noon to 1 pm.  These meetings  range in formality, from discussions to lecture presentations or workshop performances, sometimes involving out of town guests, and sometimes students and faculty at the UofA.  Please join our mailing list (see below) to be kept abreast of the schedule.


This wiki site provides information about CCE as well as ethnomusicology programs at the University of Alberta, and information relevant to ethnomusicologists anywhere.
This wiki site provides information about CCE as well as ethnomusicology programs at the University of Alberta, and information relevant to ethnomusicologists anywhere.
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= CCE projects and activities =
= CCE projects and activities =
== Online virtual museums produced by the CCE ==
== Online virtual museums co-produced by the CCE ==


Both were funded by Heritage Canada:
Both were funded by Heritage Canada, with support from folkwaysAlive:


* [http://bit.ly/vmctm Virtual Museum of Canadian Traditional Music] (VMCTM) (http://bit.ly/vmcantrad)
* [http://bit.ly/vmctm Virtual Museum of Canadian Traditional Music] (VMCTM) (http://bit.ly/vmctm). PI: Michael Frishkopf
* [http://swar.tapor.ualberta.ca/SAMC/home.html South Asian Music and Culture in Canada] (SAMCC) (http://bit.ly/samcc)
* [http://swar.tapor.ualberta.ca/SAMC/home.html South Asian Music and Culture in Canada] (SAMCC) (http://bit.ly/samcc). PI: Regula Qureshi


== Major outreach and development projects spearheaded by the CCE (completed and in-progress) ==
== Major outreach and development projects spearheaded by the CCE (completed and in-progress) ==
Two principal initiatives:
# Edmonton Transcultural Orchestra, a university-community group
# Music for Global Human Development
----
The new [[Edmonton Transcultural Orchestra]] (ETO) seeks musical bridges across the artificial "cultural" divides between people. "Culture" has no plural! The world is not comprised of a discrete set of autonomous "cultures"; rather culture flows among all of us, its only boundaries being humanity itself. "Culture" is is shared but doesn't define hermetic groups; each of us carries a unique cultural mix linking to myriad others. 
The ETO demonstrates the linkages among all humanity in two ways:  (1) socially, in the group itself, which is diverse:  university students, staff, and faculty; community, and (2) musically, by highlighting the flow of music through people.
Check out a recent performance on [https://www.instagram.com/p/BbU3_yenDVJ/?hl=en Instagram] (City Hall, Nov 10).
----


[http://m4ghd.org Music for Global Human Development], comprising two main branches:
[http://m4ghd.org Music for Global Human Development], comprising two main branches:
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These research projects are geared towards the CCE's mission to archive and disseminate the sounds of the world, making them available for educational, scientific, and aesthetic use.
These research projects are geared towards the CCE's mission to archive and disseminate the sounds of the world, making them available for educational, scientific, and aesthetic use.


* Deep Learning for Automatic Tagging of Audio Field Recordings:  applying machine learning techniques to recognize features in musical, linguistic, biological, and other recordings. In collaboration with the Department of Computing Science, and faculty participation also from MLCS, Linguistics, Biology.
* [[Deep Learning for Sound Recognition]] (DLSR):  applying machine learning techniques to recognize features in musical, linguistic, biological, and other recordings. In collaboration with the Department of Computing Science, and faculty participation also from MLCS, Linguistics, Biology.
* Sounds of Islam:  a digital repository comprising field recordings from the world of Islam. A partnership involving Music, Arts Resource Centre, and the Library's Digital Initiatives; funded by KIAS.
* Sounds of Islam:  a digital repository comprising field recordings from the world of Islam. A partnership involving Music, Arts Resource Centre, and the Library's Digital Initiatives; funded by KIAS.


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== Recent concerts include ==  
== Recent concerts include ==  
* Nagham al-Ams (Melodies of Yesterday):  Songs from Aleppo (Oct 14, 2016), part of the Music for Global Human Development symposium, featuring music and musicians from Syria.
* Nagham al-Ams (Melodies of Yesterday):  Songs from Aleppo (Oct 14, 2016), part of the Music for Global Human Development symposium, featuring music and musicians from Syria.
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwwdpLj30MxHYngwMVlla01SSjA/view Music for a Better World] (Jan 30, 2016), for [http://www.globaled.ualberta.ca/InternationalWeek/InternationalWeek2016.aspx International Week 2016], "For a better world: the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals",  presented with the Medical Students Association and the Students International Health Association (SIHA), and featuring a wide range of artists with simultaneous slide show; the concert served also as a benefit for Syrian refugees in Edmonton, in collaboration with  the Edmonton Mennonite Centre for Newcomers.
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1kvIc4osA_FQWJ0c2RmcFZ1a00/view?usp=sharing Music for a Better World] (Jan 30, 2016), for [http://www.globaled.ualberta.ca/InternationalWeek/InternationalWeek2016.aspx International Week 2016], "For a better world: the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals",  presented with the Medical Students Association and the Students International Health Association (SIHA), and featuring a wide range of artists with simultaneous slide show; the concert served also as a benefit for Syrian refugees in Edmonton, in collaboration with  the Edmonton Mennonite Centre for Newcomers.
* MENAME Concert featuring distinguished guest George Sawa (March 2015)
* MENAME Concert featuring distinguished guest George Sawa (March 2015)
* MENAME Concert featuring distinguished guests Hossam Ramzy, Emile el-Bassili, and al-Gamal al-Kurdi (November 2014)
* MENAME Concert featuring distinguished guests Hossam Ramzy, Emile el-Bassili, and al-Gamal al-Kurdi (November 2014)
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== Media ==
== Media ==


Browse some of our collections via our two virtual museums (see above); a few images have also been published on the from the [http://www.edmontonjournal.com/touch/m-photo.html?id=7746007&p=1 Edmonton Journal website]
Browse some of our collections via our two virtual museums (see above); a few images have also been published on the [http://www.edmontonjournal.com/touch/m-photo.html?id=7746007&p=1 Edmonton Journal website]


Recent news stories:
Recent news stories:
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== Summer programs ==
== Summer programs ==
* [http://bit.ly/ghanamusic Study African arts and culture in Ghana!] '''(We are planning to run Summer 2017!)'''
* [http://bit.ly/ghanamusic Study African arts and culture in Ghana!] '''(The Summer 2017 program just concluded; keep in touch if you're interested in a future run)'''
* [https://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/fwa_mediawiki/index.php?title=University_of_Alberta_Summer_World_Music_Program University of Alberta Summer World Music Program]
* [https://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/fwa_mediawiki/index.php?title=University_of_Alberta_Summer_World_Music_Program University of Alberta Summer World Music Program]
* [http://bit.ly/muslimworldmusicart Music and Art in the Muslim World Summer Camp], for children; see http://bit.ly/muslimworldmusicart  for more information.
* [http://bit.ly/muslimworldmusicart Music and Art in the Muslim World Summer Camp], for children; see http://bit.ly/muslimworldmusicart  for more information.
==Winter 2018==
* Issues in Ethnomusicology (Proseminar in Ethnomusicology - Music 665)
* [[Area Studies in Ethnomusicology: The Arab World  (2018)]] (Music 468/568)
* [http://bit.ly/mename Middle Eastern and North African Music Ensemble] [[MENAME course outline Winter 2018 | click here for Winter 2018 course outline]]


==Fall 2017==
==Fall 2017==


* [[Field Methods in Ethnomusicology (Fall 2017)]] (Music 666)
* [[Field Methods in Ethnomusicology (Fall 2017)]] (Music 666)
* [[Introduction to World Music (Fall 2017)]] (Music 102) ''Wednesday evening section''


== Fall 2016 ==
== Fall 2016 ==
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Also see the [https://cloudfront.ualberta.ca/-/media/arts/departments-institutes-and-centres/music/student-resources-and-admissions-documents/student-resources/graduate-resources/graduate-downloads-menu/2017-18/graduate-program-manual-music-201718.pdf Music grad program manual].
Also see the [https://cloudfront.ualberta.ca/-/media/arts/departments-institutes-and-centres/music/student-resources-and-admissions-documents/student-resources/graduate-resources/graduate-downloads-menu/2017-18/graduate-program-manual-music-201718.pdf Music grad program manual].


* [https://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/fwa_mediawiki/index.php/MA MA] with concentration in ethnomusicology
* [[MA]] with concentration in ethnomusicology
* [https://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/fwa_mediawiki/index.php/PhD PhD] with concentration in ethnomusicology
* [[PhD]] with concentration in ethnomusicology


Helpful links:
Helpful links:
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* The Structure of Examining Committees: http://uofa.ualberta.ca/graduate-studies/about/graduate-program-manual/section-8-supervision-oral-examintations-and-program-completion/8-2-the-structure-of-examining-committees
* The Structure of Examining Committees: http://uofa.ualberta.ca/graduate-studies/about/graduate-program-manual/section-8-supervision-oral-examintations-and-program-completion/8-2-the-structure-of-examining-committees
* The Conduct of Doctoral Candidacy Examinations: http://uofa.ualberta.ca/graduate-studies/about/graduate-program-manual/section-8-supervision-oral-examintations-and-program-completion/8-3-conduct-of-examinations#8.3.3 Doctoral Candidacy Exam  
* The Conduct of Doctoral Candidacy Examinations: http://uofa.ualberta.ca/graduate-studies/about/graduate-program-manual/section-8-supervision-oral-examintations-and-program-completion/8-3-conduct-of-examinations#8.3.3 Doctoral Candidacy Exam  
* Examining Committee Checklists
http://uofa.ualberta.ca/graduate-studies/-/media/gradstudies/about/faculty-and-staff/resources-for-supervisors-and-graduate-coordinators/201311272013-11_examining_committee_membership_checklist.pdf




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* Ethics:
* Ethics:
** Please note that all graduate students ''must'' complete the [http://www.music.ualberta.ca/Resources/StudentResources/GradResources/Ethics%20Requirements.aspx Ethics training for Music graduate students].
** Please note that all graduate students ''must'' complete the [https://www.ualberta.ca/music/student-resources/graduate-resources/ethics-training Ethics training for Music graduate students].
** Prior to conducting research you may be required to receive University of Alberta Research Ethics Board approval, if you are working with human subjects. See http://remo.ualberta.ca
** Prior to conducting research you may be required to receive University of Alberta Research Ethics Board approval, if you are working with human subjects. See http://remo.ualberta.ca


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== Audio databases, sites ==
== Audio databases, sites ==


* [http://womu.alexanderstreet.com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/ Contemporary World Music]
* [http://search.alexanderstreet.com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/womu Contemporary World Music]
* [http://glmu.alexanderstreet.com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/ Smithsonian Global Sound]
* [http://guides.library.ualberta.ca/databases/smithsonian-global-sound Smithsonian Global Sound]
* [http://ethnocloud.com/ Ethnocloud]
* [http://ethnocloud.com/ Ethnocloud]


== Film and video databases ==
== Film and video collections ==


* [https://web.library.ualberta.ca/databases/databaseinfo/index.cfm?ID=4410 Ethnographic Video Online and Anthropology Online] from Alexander Street Press
* [https://web.library.ualberta.ca/databases/databaseinfo/index.cfm?ID=4410 Ethnographic Video Online and Anthropology Online] from Alexander Street Press
* [http://digital.films.com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/Dashboard.aspx Films on Demand]
* [http://digital.films.com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/Dashboard.aspx Films on Demand]
* [https://ualberta.kanopystreaming.com/ Kanopy]
* [https://ualberta.kanopystreaming.com/ Kanopy]
* [http://freedocumentaries.org/ Free Documentaries]
* [https://www.nfb.ca/subjects/music/ National Film Board of Canada: Music]
* [http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/arts-entertainment/film/ CBC films]
* [https://web.library.ualberta.ca/databases/databaseinfo/index.cfm?ID=4414 Filmmakers' online library]
* [https://web.library.ualberta.ca/databases/databaseinfo/index.cfm?ID=4414 Filmmakers' online library]
* [http://www.library.ualberta.ca/databases_help/nfb/index.cfm NFB of Canada]
* [http://www.library.ualberta.ca/databases_help/nfb/index.cfm NFB of Canada]

Revision as of 18:17, 7 December 2017

WELCOME TO THE CANADIAN CENTRE FOR ETHNOMUSICOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA!

Michael Frishkopf, Director

New URL: http://CCE.UALBERTA.CA

MAP of key CCE locations on campus

(Former wiki -- including ethnomusicology course syllabi -- is archived here). Please consult for any broken links below.

Ccelogo.png


Upcoming events:

  • KOREAN MUSIC WORKSHOP. Intercultural Improvisation Workshop: Korean Shaman Ritual Sinawi Improvisation. This workshop, led by Korean piri master Gamin and members of her Korean ensemble in residence at the University of Alberta, will talk about Korean Shaman ‘Sinawi’ ritual music and teach Korean scales, melodies and rhythms from which participants will learn to improvise in the sinawi tradition. The workshop will also talk about using improvisation in the context of intercultural collaboration. Friday Nov 24, 10 am - 12 pm, Fine Arts Building 1-23. Please bring an instrument, or just come to listen!
  • World Music Concert for International Week - Jan 31, 2018. 7 pm, Convocation Hall.

Other useful links:



Overview

CCE's primary mission is to work towards musical sound for the public good, including five primary ethnomusicological activities: archiving, dissemination, research, teaching, and outreach - with a focus on human development: improving the world through music. Here "music" is defined as broadly as possible, to denote "humanly meaningful sound, along with its associated behaviors, social organizations, meanings, and materialities." Thus "music" includes music, but also chant or speech, as well as associated rituals, performances, gatherings, movements, texts, musical instruments, concepts and theories, and all talk about music. (Dance and poetry are a kind of "music" using this broad definition, as are ritual chants and musical aesthetics; in fact "ethnomusicology" itself is a kind of music, leading to "metaethnomusicology": the ethnomusicology of ethnomusicology itself!) CCE activities go beyond the ordinary duties of faculty and students (to teach, learn, research), by working collaboratively, outside the usual scope of university practices, to address (directly or indirectly) the larger social issues of our times.

At the hub of the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology (CCE), housed under the Department of Music and University of Alberta Museums, is a world music archive (both digital and physical) serving as a research and teaching resource for musical and cultural traditions, locally and internationally. Revolving around this hub is a range of research, teaching, performance, and community outreach projects, including the Music for Global Human Development project (m4ghd.org), K-12 education, and world music ensembles. CCE connects to a broad spectrum of academic disciplines across the Faculty of Arts, but extending also to Education and the health sciences, through the initiative entitled Songs for Sustainable Peace and Development, which has resulted in ongoing global health projects in Liberia, Ghana, and Ethiopia. CCE projects may result in printed texts (books and articles), exhibitions, conferences, symposia, concerts and workshops, or in a variety of media, including audio, video, websites, and virtual reality models.

The archival collection includes diverse instruments and more than 4000 titles in audio/video recordings. World music groups include the Indian Music Ensemble, West African Music Ensemble, and Middle Eastern and North African Music Ensemble, all functioning as teaching centers as well as providing outreach to local Edmonton events. We also run a Summer Study Abroad Program in Ghana, and a weekly noon series of lectures, activities, and workshops, every Wednesday noon - 1 pm in 3-47 Old Arts. The Centre helps students, staff, faculty and the general public at large to understand how people use music to connect, express, and create community and identity, and helps to effect positive change through such activities. Working locally, nationally, and globally, the CCE is of value to students and faculty in the social sciences, humanities, education, and fine arts.

The CCE team is ever changing - each project may have a different set of participants, including faculty, staff, and students at the UofA, and others in a range of communities from Edmonton, to Alberta, to Canada, and beyond. Many volunteer. When funding is available, we often employ students and others to work on these projects as Research Assistants. We hold a weekly series of meetings in 3-47 Old Arts, each Wednesday from noon to 1 pm. These meetings range in formality, from discussions to lecture presentations or workshop performances, sometimes involving out of town guests, and sometimes students and faculty at the UofA. Please join our mailing list (see below) to be kept abreast of the schedule.

This wiki site provides information about CCE as well as ethnomusicology programs at the University of Alberta, and information relevant to ethnomusicologists anywhere.

Note: this wiki is new & improved but incomplete. completion requires copying huge amounts of data from the old wiki... by hand. if you find broken links locate them on the old wiki: http://bit.ly/fwawiki and email me to request copying to here. in this way I will prioritize copying what is needed most.


MAP of key CCE locations on campus

CCE communications happen via our cce-people email list; please click to add yourself to this list and receive news and updates about CCE!


CCE projects and activities

Online virtual museums co-produced by the CCE

Both were funded by Heritage Canada, with support from folkwaysAlive:

Major outreach and development projects spearheaded by the CCE (completed and in-progress)

Two principal initiatives:

  1. Edmonton Transcultural Orchestra, a university-community group
  2. Music for Global Human Development




The new Edmonton Transcultural Orchestra (ETO) seeks musical bridges across the artificial "cultural" divides between people. "Culture" has no plural! The world is not comprised of a discrete set of autonomous "cultures"; rather culture flows among all of us, its only boundaries being humanity itself. "Culture" is is shared but doesn't define hermetic groups; each of us carries a unique cultural mix linking to myriad others.

The ETO demonstrates the linkages among all humanity in two ways: (1) socially, in the group itself, which is diverse: university students, staff, and faculty; community, and (2) musically, by highlighting the flow of music through people.

Check out a recent performance on Instagram (City Hall, Nov 10).




Music for Global Human Development, comprising two main branches:

  1. Songs for Sustainable Peace and Development
  2. Music for Cultural Continuity and Civil Society

especially the following:

Research and archiving projects

These research projects are geared towards the CCE's mission to archive and disseminate the sounds of the world, making them available for educational, scientific, and aesthetic use.

  • Deep Learning for Sound Recognition (DLSR): applying machine learning techniques to recognize features in musical, linguistic, biological, and other recordings. In collaboration with the Department of Computing Science, and faculty participation also from MLCS, Linguistics, Biology.
  • Sounds of Islam: a digital repository comprising field recordings from the world of Islam. A partnership involving Music, Arts Resource Centre, and the Library's Digital Initiatives; funded by KIAS.

Educational projects

CCE's educational projects go beyond the regular UofA curriculum to connect with communities, locally and globally...

CD productions

Virtual reality displays

Recent concerts include

  • Nagham al-Ams (Melodies of Yesterday): Songs from Aleppo (Oct 14, 2016), part of the Music for Global Human Development symposium, featuring music and musicians from Syria.
  • Music for a Better World (Jan 30, 2016), for International Week 2016, "For a better world: the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals", presented with the Medical Students Association and the Students International Health Association (SIHA), and featuring a wide range of artists with simultaneous slide show; the concert served also as a benefit for Syrian refugees in Edmonton, in collaboration with the Edmonton Mennonite Centre for Newcomers.
  • MENAME Concert featuring distinguished guest George Sawa (March 2015)
  • MENAME Concert featuring distinguished guests Hossam Ramzy, Emile el-Bassili, and al-Gamal al-Kurdi (November 2014)

Recent and upcoming workshops include

  • Persian music with Mehdi Rezania (Oct 26, 2016)
  • Indian music with sarod master Rajeev Taranath (Oct 22, 2016)
  • George Sawa, qanun (spring 2015)
  • Hossam Ramzy, Egyptian percussion (fall 2014)

Conferences (upcoming and recent)

  • Heavenly Acts III: Faith, Performance and the Expressive Arts - An International Symposium, Nov 25-26, 2016, and including two concerts. Funded by the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council.
  • Music for Global Human Development, a SSHRC-sponsored seminar and concert, October 14, 2016
  • Exhibiting Sound (2015), a three-day international symposium, including keynote speakers, and exhibitions/concerts, sponsored by SSHRC.
  • I am a Bird from Heaven's Garden (in collaboration with the Aga Khan Development Network and the Office of the Provost, University of Alberta, with conference funding from SSHRC. (2013) video
  • Sounds and Spaces of Muslim Piety, in collaboration with the Association for the Study of Ginans, and the Office of the Provost (2011)

Archive

  • Recordings: Our extensive media holdings include field recordings and commercial recordings representing music of South Asia, Middle East, Africa, and North America, including Sufi music collections, Northern Alberta Fiddle Collection, and a large Jazz collection. Some of these collections are available online via projects listed above, e.g. http://bit.ly/vmctm
  • Musical instruments. A portion of our collection is on display in 3-32 and 3-47 Old Arts; a larger collection is stored in our archive.

Media

Browse some of our collections via our two virtual museums (see above); a few images have also been published on the Edmonton Journal website

Recent news stories:

CCE Affiliations and Partnerships

CCE is working, has worked, or is planning to work with the following organizations:

Courses in the Department of Music

Ethnomusicology courses

Mandatory ethics training for graduate students

All music graduate students must complete this training. See: http://music.ualberta.ca (navigate to section for graduate students).

Summer programs

Winter 2018

Fall 2017

Fall 2016

Winter 2016

Fall 2015

Fall 2014

NB: Instead of Music 666 (Field methods in Ethnomusicology) please sign up for MLCS 632 - Folklore Research Methods

Winter 2014

  • Music 365: Introduction to Ethnomusicology: Applied Ethnomusicology and Social Responsibility (R. El Kadi)
  • Music 466/566: Topics in Ethnomusicology: World Music and the Global Music Industry (J. Kertzer)

Fall 2013

Winter 2013

Fall 2012

Winter 2012

Fall 2011

Winter 2011

Fall 2010

Winter 2010

Fall 2009

Winter 2009

Fall 2008

Winter 2008

Fall 2007

Winter 2007

Fall 2006

Winter 2006

World Music Ensembles


Programs and advising for (prospective or actual) ethnomusicology students

quick link: http://bit.ly/ethnoadvice


The Department of Music and Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology support five academic degree programs within which a specialization in ethnomusicology and world music is possible:

  • Bachelor of Arts (BA), major or minor in music
  • BA Honours in music
  • Embedded Certificate in World Sound Arts (can be added to any bachelor degree program across the University)
  • Bachelor of Music (BMus), world music route
  • MA in Music, with concentration in ethnomusicology
  • PhD in Music, with concentration in ethnomusicology


For prospective students

Please see the following sections also to learn about our programs.

For current students

Undergraduate programs relevant to ethnomusicology

See http://calendar.ualberta.ca/

Graduate programs relevant to ethnomusicology

Note that graduate students begin with an interim advisor who serves to provide general mentorship and guidance on course and research related matters. By the end of the first year the program supervisor (or advisor, for the MA course-based route) must be selected, along with the supervisory committee (comprising two additional faculty members) for doctoral students.

See the FGSR graduate program manual for more details on supervision.

Also see the Music grad program manual.

  • MA with concentration in ethnomusicology
  • PhD with concentration in ethnomusicology

Helpful links:



General resources


Calendar pages:

Projects

Documentation

Links

Research

Events

Series

Conferences

Concerts/workshops

Visiting guest lecturers and artists


Ideas & suggestions

Talks, presentations, and other courses

Video as community activism in ethnomusicology

Music and Islam talk

Arab music talk

Arab poetry talk

Postcolonial Arab novel

Cultural Representations of Post-Coloniality

Introduction to Middle Eastern and African Studies

Arab cinema

Arabic 211

On Sufism

Musical acoustics

DiscoverE program, summer 2011

Bamboo Shield program, Dec 15 2011

The data of ethnomusicological research: Recent developments and challenges, by Sean Luyk

Resources in Ethnomusicology, by Sean Luyk

Resources for ethnomusicological research

Short URL for this section: http://bit.ly/ethnores

Library's Music research page

Sean Luyk's excellent presentation, Research in Ethnomusicology

Library's "Ethnic" music research page

Sources for the history of ethnomusicology

Student compilations of Sources for Ethnomusicology (an ongoing Music 665 project)

Reference works for Ethnomusicology

Short URL for this section: http://bit.ly/ethnoref

Music

Reference works...

World Music Archives...

Anthropology

Sociology

Linguistics

Philosophy

Methodology


Bibliography

For chaining references (relations of "citing", "cited by") see:

  • Web of Science
  • Jstor
  • Google Scholar

Very Short Introductions

This wonderful series from Oxford is now online! (including titles on Ethnomusicology, World Music, Folk Music, and other related topics)

Click here to browse.

Article databases

Note: always check the Library's list of electronic journals first - sometimes a journal's not in jstor, but we may have a subscription through another database.

Audio databases, sites

Film and video collections

Funding

World Music Blogs

http://sahelsounds.com/

http://www.awesometapes.com/

http://blogs.voanews.com/african-music-treasures/

http://ethnomusic.podomatic.com/

M4GHD resources

Development (general)

Media: http://www.audiencescapes.org/

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) organizations

Especially relevant to http://bit.ly/songsspd in West Africa...

GENERAL: http://www.wsp.org/about/Water-and-Sanitation-Organizations

Other:

http://www.washplus.org/

http://ghanawashproject.org/

http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/

http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/en/ http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/factsfigures2005.pdf

http://www.cowater.com/

http://www.wsp.org/ http://www.wsp.org/media/ESI-website-presentation/index.htm

http://www.wssinfo.org/

http://www.endwaterpoverty.org

http://www.unwater.org/

http://www.washfunders.org/

http://www.wateraid.org/

http://www.washfunders.org/

http://www.susana.org/

http://water.org/

http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries

http://www.gwp.org/

http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health

http://www.globalh2o.org/

http://www.worldwatercouncil.org/

http://www.safewater.org/

Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council - http://www.wsscc.org/countries/africa/liberia/wash-coalition-overview

WASH United - http://www.wash-united.org/africa

Theory and history of theory - useful links

Digital archiving and repositories

  • ERA

Directions

Employment

Wikia listing SEM listing (for SEM members only - must log in)

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