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Singing and Dancing for Health

In this participatory action research project, an international collaboration between artists, academics, public health experts, and community members, we aim to create, evaluate, and refine effective music and dance interventions for public health education and promotion in the developing world. In particular, we seek to collaboratively develop and assess the impact of participatory "dance dramas" (comprising music, song, dance, poetry, drama, and comedy in traditional idioms, but carrying community health messaging) for public health promotion in northern Ghana, that country's most underdeveloped area, partnering with a Ghanaian performing arts/education NGO experienced in applications of music and dance to development projects. Sustainability is enabled through the establishment of local community-based performance groups, with the intention to enable this new repertoire to enter the local oral tradition.

Thus far, our focus is two critical health care issues: sanitation/cholera and malaria. We are also seeking funding to add additional dance dramas centered on Ebola awareness, Maternal and Neonatal Health, and Mental Health.

Please click here to read more.

What is folkwaysAlive!?

See the folkwaysAlive! home page

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

• Study African arts and culture in Ghana! (May be available Summer 2016 - please check back!)
• University of Alberta Summer World Music Program
• Music and Art in the Muslim World Summer Camp 2015], for children; see http://bit.ly/muslimworldmusicart for more information. Camp dates are as follows:
  • July 13-17, 2015 - Age 10-12 (maximum of 25 students)
  • July 20-24, 2015 - Age 13-15 (maximum of 25 students)

Fall 2015

• Music and Islam (Fall 2015) (Music 469/569)
• Field Methods in Ethnomusicology (Fall 2015) (Music 666)

Fall 2014

• Issues in Ethnomusicology (Fall 2014) (Music 665)
• Ethnomusicology of the Arab World (Fall 2014) (Music 468/568)
• Introduction to World Music (Music 102)

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

• Issues in Ethnomusicology (Fall 2013) (Music 665)
• Music and Documentary Filmmaking (Fall 2013) (Music 466/566)
• Music and Identity (Fall 2013) (Music 466/566)
• Introduction to World Music (Music 102)

Winter 2013

• Music and Religion (Winter 2013) (Music 464/564)
• Introduction to Ethnomusicology (Music 365)

Fall 2012

• Issues in Ethnomusicology (Fall 2012) (Music 665)
• African Popular Music (Fall 2012) (Music 465/565)
• Introduction to World Music (Fall 2012) (Music 102)

Winter 2012

• Field Methods in Ethnomusicology (Winter 2012) (Music 666)
• Music and Islam (Winter 2012) (Music 469/569)
• Introduction to Modern Italian Musical Life: From Opera to Hip Hop (Winter 2012 - School of Cortona) (Music 365)

Fall 2011

• Music culture as a social network (Fall 2011) (Music 466/566)
• Introduction to World Music (2011) (Music 102)
• Issues in Ethnomusicology (2011) (Music 665)

Winter 2011

• Music and Documentary Filmmaking (Winter 2011) (Music 466/566)
• Field Methods in Ethnomusicology (Winter 2011) (Music 666)
• Area studies: India and South Asia (Winter 2011) (Music 467/567)

Fall 2010

• Ethnomusicology of the Arab World (Fall 2010) (Music 468/568)
• Introduction to World Music (2010) (Music 102)
• Issues in Ethnomusicology (Fall 2010) (Music 665)

Winter 2010

• Introduction to Ethnomusicology: Popular Musics of the World (Music 365)
• Field Methods in Ethnomusicology (Winter 2010) (Music 666)
• Music and Religion (Winter 2010) (Music 464/564)

Fall 2009

• Issues in Ethnomusicology (Fall 2009) (Music 665)
• Area Studies in Ethnomusicology (Music 465/565): Music of the Persianate World: Iran and Central Asia
• Topics in Ethnomusicology (Music 466/566)

Winter 2009

• Field methods in Ethnomusicology (Winter 2009) (Music 666)
• Music and Islam (Winter 2009) (Music 469/569)
• Introduction to Ethnomusicology (Winter 2009) (Music 365)

Fall 2008

• Issues in Ethnomusicology (Fall 2008) (Music 665)
• Ethnomusicology: India & S Asia (Fall 2008) (Music 467/567)
• Music and Politics (Fall 2008) (Music 467/567)

Winter 2008

• Introduction to Ethnomusicology: Music of Iran and Central Asia (Winter 2008) (Music 365)
• Ethnomusicology of the Arab World (Winter 2008) (Music 468/568)
• Field methods in Ethnomusicology (Winter 2008) (Music 666)

Fall 2007

• Music and Religion (Music 464/564)
• Issues in Ethnomusicology (Music 665)
• Ethnomusicology and social network analysis (Music 601 reading course)

Winter 2007

• Introduction to Ethnomusicology (Music 365)
• Field Methods In Ethnomusicology (Music 666)
• Music and Islam (Music 469/569)

Fall 2006

• Introduction to World Music (Music 102)
• Area Studies in Ethnomusicology (Music 465/565): Music of the Persianate World: Iran and Central Asia

Winter 2006

• Music and Religion (Music 464/564)
• Topics in Ethnomusicology (Music 566)

World Music Ensembles

• University of Alberta Middle Eastern and North African Music Ensemble (Music x48)
• University of Alberta West African Music Ensemble (Music x44)
• University of Alberta Indian Music Ensemble (Music x43)

Programs and advising for ethnomusicology students

The Department of Music, Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology, and folkwaysAlive! 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 (now suspended)
• MA in Music, with concentration in ethnomusicology
• PhD in Music, with concentration in ethnomusicology

Academic schedule 2016-17

For prospective students

• General information for prospective grad students
• Admissions, general
• Grad program admissions
• General information for prospective grad students in Music

• Undergraduate programs: Contact Rachael Robertson (780) 492-0602
• Graduate programs: Contact Heather Hindman (780) 492-0603

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

For current students

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
• BMus World Music Route
• Courses

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.

• Research Proposals in Ethnomusicology (template)
• New Grad Program Manual (2016)
• Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research
• Grad programs in Music
• Graduate programs in Music (Calendar listing)
• MA with concentration in ethnomusicology
• PhD with concentration in ethnomusicology
• courses
• On enrolling in Thesis Credits
• FGSR graduate program manual
• Preparing your thesis
• Thesis filing deadlines
• The Supervisor
• https://www.ualberta.ca/music/student-resources/graduate-resources/language-program-requirements Language requirement]. Please begin planning to meet this requirement as early as possible in your program. Note recent changes in the language requirement:
• Graduate Teaching and Learning programs for training in university instruction.
• Resources for ethnomusicological research

• Ethics:

NB: Please note that all graduate students must complete the Ethics training for Music graduate students, as well as the Professional Development requirement.

• • Prior to conducting research you may be required to receive University of Alberta Research Ethics Board approval.

Check the Arts, Science, and Law Research Ethics Board web site for information and forms.

Other useful links:

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

The Conduct of Doctoral Final Examinations: http://uofa.ualberta.ca/graduate-studies/about/graduate-program-manual/section-8-supervision-oral-examintations-and-program-completion/8-3-conduct-of-examinations#8.3.4 Final Doctoral Exam

Final PhD Examinations: Please be aware that at least 2 months prior to the oral examination, we must submit a request to invite the external examiner. The FGSR requires at least 3 weeks notice of the examination, however the more time we have to prepare, the better.

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

General resources

• Grad resources from the Dept of Music
• Current UofA course listings, via Bear Tracks
• Department of Music
• FGSR Graduate Program Manual
• 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).

Calendar pages:

• Complete University Calendar (contains links to pdfs)
• University of Alberta Calendar, online
• BMus
• BA major minor, BA Honours
• MA, MMus, PhD, DMus
• Course listings

Projects

• 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
• KinkaDrum.org
• 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
• FolkwaysAlive Jukebox how-to
• Cataloguing and Accessioning

Links

• Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology
• folkwaysAlive!

Research

• Arts, Science and Law Research Ethics Board
• 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

• Weekly CCE - folkwaysAlive! meetings
• Cultural Soundings
• Ethnographic film series

Conferences

• CSTM meeting

Concerts/workshops

• 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

• George Sawa, March 2015

Ideas & suggestions

• Concert and workshop ideas (visiting artists)
• Lecture ideas (visiting scholars)

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

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, archives...

• Oxford Music Online
• Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
• Other music resources
• ArchiveGrid
• British Library

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
• Software tools and tutorials

Methodology

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

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!

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
• Web of Science

Audio databases

• Contemporary World Music
• Smithsonian Global Sound

Film and video databases

• Ethnographic Video Online and Anthropology Online from Alexander Street Press
• Films on Demand
• Kanopy, with a large collection of music films
• NFB of Canada
• Folkstreams
• World Music Films
• http://Youtube.com
• http://Vimeo.com
• http://archive.org/details/movies
• http://www.idfa.nl/industry.aspx

Funding

• COS Funding Opportunities (database)
• SSHRC

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

• 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

FolkwaysAlive Staff

• Jon Kertzer, Director
• Lorna Arndt, Project Manager
• David Descheneau, Technical Development Analyst
• Regula Qureshi, Research Fellow
• Michael Frishkopf, Research Fellow

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