The Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology (CCE)

WELCOME TO THE CANADIAN CENTRE FOR ETHNOMUSICOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA! Founded in 1992 by Professor Regula Qureshi.

http://CCE.UALBERTA.CA

CCE ETO

Territorial Acknowledgement and Call to Action

Overview of the CCE

Weekly CCE meetings for 2023 - 2024: Sound Studies Institute (Old Arts room 3-47), Wednesdays noon to 1pm. Feel free to bring your lunch. We have tea and snacks. Please check the map and join our email list (links are below).

Click to join:

• CCE listserv
• CCE FB group
• Instagram page

MAP of key CCE-relevant locations on campus

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Please consider a donation to our musical campaign to improve maternal health in rural Ethiopia using radio!
(working in partnership with Farm Radio International and Maternity Today

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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)

Off campus mental health resources

CALENDAR OF EVENTS: We hold a weekly meeting, Wednesdays 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: We will likely resume in-person meetings in fall 2021; please join our email list and stay tuned!

Other useful links:

• CCE in the Museums and Collections database
• Browse map of our research, teaching, and outreach sites
• Research resources (http://bit.ly/emresearch)
• Advising for current or would-be ethnomusicology graduate students (http://bit.ly/ethno-advise)
• Student Services

Overview

The primary mission of the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology (CCE), founded in 1992 by Professor Regula Qureshi, is to facilitate multicultural musical sound for the public good, through multiple ethnomusicological activities worldwide: 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!

Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSrpqziPWo0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfPYj5lMYr8

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. See project page and AKDN page
• 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)

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
• General information for prospective graduate students in Music
• UofA Graduate programs in Music
• A listing of graduate programs in Ethnomusicology
• Applications (general)
• Courses in Music
• Undergraduate programs: Contact Stephen Tchir (780) 492-0602
• Graduate programs: TBD

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/

Courses in Music

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.

See the official Calendar listing for graduate programs in Music

(The Music grad program manual is out of date but should be revised soon.)

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

Helpful links:

Music:

• Official descriptions of Music graduate programs
• Music Graduate Handbook: under revision
• Research Proposals in Ethnomusicology (template)
• Academic area graduate courses
• About thesis credits

FGSR:

• FGSR Graduate Program Manual; see especially:
  • The Structure of Examining Committees
  • The Conduct of Doctoral Candidacy Examinations

Courses:

• Current course listings, via Bear Tracks
• University of Alberta Calendar, online
• Courses in Music

Additional program requirements:

• Language requirement
• Professional Development requirement
• Ethics training requirement
• Research ethics. Besides the ethics requirement, 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 https://arise.ualberta.ca/

Misc:

• Graduate Teaching and Learning programs for training in university instruction.
• Filing thesis materials in ERA

Other useful links

• Resources for ethnomusicological research

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

• Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology

CCE Research

• Arts, Science and Law Research Ethics Board
• Autonomous Adaptive Soundscapes
• World Music Therapy
• 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
• Bartok research project, by Myunghun Kim (in progress)

Events

Series

• Weekly CCE meetings
• Cultural Soundings
• Ethnographic film series

Concerts/workshops/conferences

• Artists of the Caribbean Diaspora, including a conference and concert: Music of Le Chevalier & Artists of the Caribbean Diaspora in Edmonton (Feb 2024, for Black History Month)
• Leveraging Our Synergies: Cultural Resilience in Diaspora Performance Festival (Feb 2023, for Black History Month)
• borderless flows: improvisational interactions across Asia, Africa, and beyond, a collaboration with the Aga Khan Development Network's Music Programme (Sep 2022)
• Transpositions: Music for Resilient Sustainable Communities (part of International Week 2020)
• Feb 8, 2019: 2019 International Week concert[1]: Music for Sustainable Development Goals, with fundraiser for Oxfam Canada, in Convocation Hall. Gateway concert review
• Jan 31, 2018 - 7 pm - Convocation Hall Concert, Music for a Better World: Transcending Boundaries (part of International Week: For a Better World) (with the Edmonton Transcultural Orchestra)
• Music for a Better World, Jan 30, Convocation Hall (part of International Week 2016)
• The music of Rumi, World Music Sampler, Nov 24, 2007, 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

(a very partial listing!)

• Khadijah, Saudi dancer, April 2024
• George Sawa, scholar of medieval Arabic music and master zither (qanun) player, March 2015
• Hossam Ramzy, master Egyptian drummer, 2014
• George Kyrillos, Coptic singer and arranger and scholar of Coptic chant, from Egypt, 2014
• Shaykh Mohamed el Helbawy, religious chanter from Egypt, 2005
• Kwasi Dunyo, master drummer from Ghana, 2002

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.

Introducing maqamat and the concept "maqam"

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/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

Oxford bibliographies

Sources for the history of ethnomusicology

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

Doing research in a pandemic

Digital humanities resources for Music (via Rutgers)]

New! Online world music textbook

Research proposals for ethnomusicology at the University of Alberta, a template (memorable link: http://bit.ly/rpe-ua)

A framework for musical analysis

Research proposals in ethnomusicology

General (mainly) full text resources

• Archive.org
• Project Gutenberg
• Hathi Trust
• Google books

Reference works and resources 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:
  • Jstor
  • Web of Science
  • Academic Search Complete
  • Scopus
  • Proquest dissertations
  • Oxford bibliographies
• 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...

• Oxford Music Online
• Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
• Musical instruments
• Other music resources

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

• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Philosophical Installations

Methodology

• Sage Research Methods series
• Organizing and Managing Your Research (SAGE)
• CRAME center for statistical consulting (Faculty of Education)

Writing

• Strunk and White's 'Elements of Style'

Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies

• Arabic Collections Online
• Encyclopaedia of Islam and Index Islamicus

Bibliography

• Chicago Manual of Style
• MLA
• RILM

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)

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.

• 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

• Library's listing of Audio and Video resources
• Ethnographic Video Online and Anthropology Online from Alexander Street Press
• Films on Demand
• Kanopy
• Criterion
• 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

Historic 19th century 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://sahelsounds.com/

http://www.awesometapes.com/

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

http://ethnomusic.podomatic.com/

Jean Jenkins on BBC

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

• Information science theory
• Integrating theory in research
• Social science theory
• Anthropological theory
• History of anthropological theory
• Cybernetics
• Marxism
• Semiotics
• Media

Digital archiving and repositories

• Dataverse, Dataverse presentation

• ERA

• Importance of data archiving

Directions

• Convocation Hall loading dock

Mailboxes

• Faculty: FAB 3-104
• Grad students: FAB 3-146A (next to Student Services)

Employment

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

Other

Testing

• Sandbox
• Random
• Pinkybook

Help

• How to write these wiki pages
• Documentation on customizing the interface
• User's Guide usage and configuration
• A Gentle Introduction to MediaWiki

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Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.

Getting started

• Configuration settings list
• MediaWiki FAQ
• MediaWiki release mailing list
• Localise MediaWiki for your language

Emergency contact information

University of Alberta Museums (UAM) First Responders.

In an emergency-related issue impacting the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology, first follow your Department-issued emergency protocols. Once the emergency is controlled, contact a University of Alberta Museums First Responder for the following: Advice on assessing the impact to UAM registered collections; Advice on developing a salvage plan and implementation; Single point of contact or MarComm, Risk Management, Insurance, and Incident Commander, if necessary. University of Alberta Museums First Responders are: Alyssa Becker-Burns: 780-722-8483 Frannie Blondheim: 780-934-2849 Jennifer Bowser: 780-938-9601 Jill Horbay: 587-920-4292