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Revision as of 17:55, 6 January 2021
WELCOME TO THE CANADIAN CENTRE FOR ETHNOMUSICOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA!
NB: The Former wiki -- including ethnomusicology course syllabi -- is archived here). Please consult for any broken links below. For various technical reasons it was impossible to transfer the hundreds of pages to the new wiki.
Michael Frishkopf, Director,
Julia Byl, Associate Director (& Acting Director, 2020-21)
CALENDAR OF EVENTS: We hold a weekly meeting, Mondays at noon, including talks, jams, films, etc.. There are also occasional concerts, talks, and workshops. Please join us! (click here to see our calendar). NOTE: these meetings have now moved online; contact Michael Frishkopf if you'd like to join us from anywhere in the world.
Other useful links:
- Search our collections (http://bit.ly/ccesearch) (be sure to check off CCE for artifacts, recordings, or both)
- Browse map of our research sites
- Research resources (http://bit.ly/emresearch)
- Advising for current or would-be ethnomusicology graduate students (http://bit.ly/ethno-advise)
- Student Services
Click to join:
MAP of key CCE-relevant locations on campus
Overview
CCE's primary mission is to facilitate musical sound for the public good, through multiple ethnomusicological activities: musical archiving, performance, research, teaching, and community engaged outreach - all contributing towards human development: improving the world through music, building and sustaining community through expressive sound. Here "music" is defined as broadly as possible, to denote "humanly meaningful sound, transcending mere information, along with associated behaviors, discourses, 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 outreach projects, including Music for Global Human Development (m4ghd.org), K-12 education, world music ensembles, the Edmonton Transcultural Orchestra, and the recently-founded covid-19 era TranceCultural Orchestra (see http://bit.ly/trancetrans), both demonstrating the ways music can transcend putative cultural borders to create and maintain affective human connections.
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!
People
Staff:
- Director, and Museums and Collections Curator: Michael Frishkopf
- Associate Director: Julia Byl
- Other staff: Subash Giri (graduate student assistant), Victoria Tunney (undergraduate volunteer)
Project Committee:
- Vadim Bulitko (Science - Computing Science)
- Piet Defraeye (Arts - Drama)
- Brian Fauteux (Arts – Music, popular music)
- Nancy Hannemann (University of Alberta International)
- Shuel-let-qua Q:olosoet, also known as Cynthia Jim (independent artist and teacher, virtuoso on indigenous flute)
Physical spaces
The CCE occupies the following physical spaces in the Old Arts building on the UofA Campus:
- Administrative office: 347F
- Basement archive (compactor units and other shelving): Room 130
- Basement lab: Room 130B
- Basement storage closet: Room 130C
CCE Affiliations and Partnerships
CCE is working, has worked, or is planning to work with the following organizations:
- Alberta Council for Global Cooperation (member organization)
- Edmonton Interfaith
- Edmonton Mennonite Centre for Newcomers, including CSL experiential learning, fundraisers, and more; recent performances have been devoted to enhancing connections to Edmonton's Syrian refugee population.
- Multicultural Health Brokers
- Community Refugee Committee of St. Albert (CRCSA) in partnership with St. Albert United Church
- Aga Khan Development Network (Aga Khan Music Initiative, Aga Khan Foundation, Egypt), centered on the new Islamic Garden at the Devonian Botanical Garden, and music for civil society in Aswan, Egypt.
- Sound Studies Initiative (the former FolkwaysAlive!), on a range of projects and activities (CCE and the former folkwaysAlive were at one time a single organization).
- Arab Music Archiving and Research (AMAR)
- Makan (Egyptian Center for Cultural and Art) (Digital repository partnership with Library's Digital Initiatives and Sounds of Islam, to enable storage and access of an extensive Egyptian collection; NB: Frishkopf serves as advisory board member)
- El Mastaba Centre for Egyptian Folk Music (Digital repository partnership with Library's Digital Initiatives and Sounds of Islam)
- Youth Home Cultural Group (development and digital repository partner)
- Department of Music, University of Ghana, Legon (archived site)
CCE projects and activities
Ethnomusicology and World Music courses
Click here for course listings, past and present.
World Music Ensembles
- University of Alberta Middle Eastern and North African Music Ensemble (Music x48) (offered in Winter)
- University of Alberta West African Music Ensemble (Music x44) (Offered in Winter)
- University of Alberta Indian Music Ensemble (Music x43) (Offered in Fall)
Programs and advising for (prospective or actual) ethnomusicology students
quick link: http://bit.ly/ethno-advise
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 [currently suspended due to low enrollments]
- MA in Music, with concentration in ethnomusicology
- PhD in Music, with concentration in ethnomusicology
For prospective students
- General information for all prospective students
- General information for all prospective students in Music
- Graduate programs in Music
- Applications (general)
- Courses in Music
- Undergraduate programs: Contact Stephen Tchir (780) 492-0602
- Graduate programs: Contact Kim Arndt (780) 492-0603
Department of Music application information
Please see the following sections also to learn about our programs.
For current students
Student Resources - General resources for everyone, including support for writing and health
Undergraduate programs relevant to ethnomusicology
- Embedded Certificate in World Sound Arts(can be added to any bachelor degree program) (official Calendar listing)
- BA, major and minor in music
- BA Honours, in music
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.
Helpful links:
- Research Proposals in Ethnomusicology (template)
- Academic area graduate courses
- Graduate programs in Music
- Courses in Music
- language requirement
- Thesis credits
- ethics training
- Graduate Teaching and Learning programs for training in university instruction.
- Grad resources from the Dept of Music
- FGSR Graduate Program Manual, found here: http://uofa.ualberta.ca/graduate-studies/about/graduate-program-manual
- 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
- Filing thesis materials in ERA
- Ethics:
- Please note that all graduate students must complete the 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
General resources
- Current UofA course listings, via Bear Tracks
- Resources for ethnomusicological research
- Peer Support Centre (formerly Student Distress Centre) (you may also visit 2-707 SUB or phone at 780-492-HELP (780-492-4357).
- Time management for students
Calendar pages:
- University of Alberta Calendar, online
Projects
(NB: consult the Former wiki for any broken links below.
- Ethnographic Multimedia Research Platform (EMRP)
- Music for Global Human Development, under two main headings:
- Songs for sustainable peace and development
- Music for cultural continuity and civil society
- Mediating world music
- Folkways in Wonderland (FiW) in collaboration with the University of Aizu
- Virtual Museum of Canadian Traditional Music
- South Asian Music and Culture in Canada
- folkwaysAlive! Canadiana CD
- The Look of the Listen: Folkways albums' cover art
- SSHRC Knowledge Impact in Society (KIS)
- Ghana Field Recordings Digitization
- MuDoc system
- Collaborations with the Department of Music, University of Ghana
- Music and architecture in Islam
- Giving voice to hope: Music of Liberian refugees
- Kinka
- Mapping Smithsonian Folkways
- Music we love
- Ewe singer-composer-poets of Ghana CD
- edmontonsoundsessions
- 1001 Nights
Documentation
- Digitization Procedures
- Media lab: how-to's
- Forms and Manuals
- Documentary videos for teaching ethnomusicology
- former jukebox how-to
- Cataloguing and Accessioning
Links
CCE Research
- Arts, Science and Law Research Ethics Board
- Autonomous Adaptive Soundscapes
- Machine Learning for Sound Recognition
- Society for Arab Music Research (SAMR)
- Music and Islam research
- The arts in the Arab diaspora
- Musical Change in Dagbamete, a West African village in Ghana
- Mapping Smithsonian Folkways
Events
Series
Conferences
Concerts/workshops
- Music for a Better World, Jan 30, Convocation Hall (part of International Week 2016)
- The music of Rumi, World Music Sampler, Nov 24, Convocation Hall (link for performers)
- The Music of Rumi: a concert performance (link for publicity)
- Trio Tarana workshop, Friday Oct 10, 2008
- Amnesty International - small places, Oct 18 2008
- Women Performers as Agents of Change: Perspectives from India, March 15-16 2010
Visiting guest lecturers and artists
Ideas & suggestions
- Concert and workshop ideas (visiting artists)
- Lecture ideas (visiting scholars)
Talks, lectures, presentations, and other courses
(NB: The Former wiki -- including ethnomusicology course syllabi -- is archived here). Please consult for any broken links below.
Video as community activism in ethnomusicology
Cultural Representations of Post-Coloniality
Introduction to Middle Eastern and African Studies
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/emresearch
General Resources
Library's Music research guide and Anthropology research guide
Library's other research guides
Resources in Ethnomusicology, by Sean Luyk
Sean Luyk's excellent presentation, Resources in Ethnomusicology
Sources for the history of ethnomusicology
Student compilations of Sources for Ethnomusicology (an ongoing Music 665 project)
General (mainly) full text resources
Reference works for Ethnomusicology
Short URL for this section: http://bit.ly/ethnoref
General databases and indices
- Library, especially the many databases and e-journals we subscribe to including:
- Google Scholar
- Semantic Scholar
- academia.edu (many scholars post articles or even whole books here)
- researchgate.net (ditto)
- arxiv.org (more math/physics oriented, but you never know what you'll find...)
- ...of course, a general web search (sometimes with keyword "pdf") can often turn up valuable items as well (but remember: if you're asked to pay for an article check first to see if it's available free via our library; normally, it is!)
Music
Reference works online...
Websites...
- Columbia jazz glossary
- Musical instruments
- Contemporary World Music
- Smithsonian Global Sound
- Ethnocloud
- Global Jukebox
World Music Archives...
- CNRS
- ArchiveGrid
- Sounds at the British Library
- Dutch Folksong Database
- Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University
- UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive
- British Library Sounds
- Wesleyan World Music Archives
- Archive of World Music at Harvard
- Atlas of plucked strings
- Musical instruments at U. Washington
Ethnomusicology
- Current Bibliography from the journal Ethnomusicology
- Oxford Bibliography
- Zora Neale Hurston Syllabus for an Inclusive Ethnomusicology
- Women's studies
Anthropology
- Ency. of Anthropology
- Other anthropology resources
- Anthropological Theory
- eHRAF (Human Relations Area Files online)
Sociology
- Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Online
- Encyclopedia of sociology (Macmillan)
- Social Network Analysis
Linguistics
- Glossary of Linguistic Terms
- Ency. of Linguistics v.1, v.2
- Philosophy of Language and Linguistics
- Concise ency. of philosophy of language and linguistics
- Comprehensive reference information for the world's languages
- Ethnologue: Find, read about, and research all 7097 living languages. Ethnologue is the ultimate source of information on the world's languages.
- Software tools and tutorials
Philosophy
Methodology
- Sage Research Methods series
- Organizing and Managing Your Research (SAGE)
- CRAME center for statistical consulting (Faculty of Education)
Middle East Studies
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! And we subscribe to many of the titles (on Ethnomusicology, World Music, Folk Music, and other related topics)
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.
- Jstor: best general collection of articles in humanities and social sciences
- Web of Science: best for tracing a citation network forwards in time (what cited that book or article? find out here!)
Audio databases, sites
(also see Archives, above)
- UNESCO collection
- Ethnographic Sound Archives Online
- Contemporary World Music
- Smithsonian Global Sound
- Ethnocloud
- Global Jukebox
Film and video collections
- Ethnographic Video Online and Anthropology Online from Alexander Street Press
- Films on Demand
- Kanopy
- Free Documentaries
- National Film Board of Canada: Music
- CBC films
- Filmmakers' online library
- NFB of Canada
- Folkstreams
- World Music Films
- http://Youtube.com
- http://Vimeo.com
- http://archive.org/details/movies
- http://www.idfa.nl/industry.aspx
- Spector collection
Other specialized websites
- Medieval and World Music
- MENAME resources
- Multimedia tools for ethnomusicology
- Music fonts suitable for notating examples in Word
- Tools - software and hardware - for ethnomusicology
Maps
Map collection at Columbia University
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection University of Texas, Austin
Funding
- COS Funding Opportunities (database)
- RSO database
- SSHRC
World Music Programs & Blogs
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.un.org/waterforlifedecade/
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/en/ http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/factsfigures2005.pdf
http://www.wsp.org/ http://www.wsp.org/media/ESI-website-presentation/index.htm
http://www.endwaterpoverty.org
http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health
http://www.worldwatercouncil.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
- Information science theory
- Integrating theory in research
- Social science theory
- Anthropological theory
- History of anthropological theory
- Cybernetics
- Marxism
- Semiotics
- Media
Digital archiving and repositories
- ERA
Directions
Employment
Wikia listing SEM listing (for SEM members only - must log in)
Other
Testing
Help
- How to write these wiki pages
- Documentation on customizing the interface
- User's Guide usage and configuration
- A Gentle Introduction to MediaWiki
Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.