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* [http://www.fwalive.ualberta.ca/~michaelf/Dissertation-abstract.htm Sufism, Ritual, and Modernity in Egypt: Language Performance as an Adaptive Strategy]  (UCLA dissertation 1999; available fulltext via UMI)
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* [http://www.fwalive.ualberta.ca/~michaelf/Dissertation-abstract.htm Sufism, Ritual, and Modernity in Egypt: Language Performance as an Adaptive Strategy]  (UCLA dissertation, 1999; available fulltext via UMI)
 
* [http://www.fwalive.ualberta.ca/~michaelf/MA_thesis_Frishkopf.pdf The Character of Ewe Performance] (Tufts University MA Thesis, 1989)
 
* [http://www.fwalive.ualberta.ca/~michaelf/MA_thesis_Frishkopf.pdf The Character of Ewe Performance] (Tufts University MA Thesis, 1989)
  

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short URL for this page: http://bit.ly/mfwiki


After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. (Aldous Huxley)


Dr. Michael Frishkopf
Associate Professor, Department of Music
Associate Director, Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology (CCE)
Research Fellow, folkwaysAlive!

Mail: Michael Frishkopf, Department of Music, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, 3-82 Fine Arts Building, Edmonton, AB CANADA T6G 2C9
Office: 334D Old Arts Building
Tel: Skype: (617) 275-2589; office: (780) 492-0225. Music Dept: (780) 492-3263
Fax: Music Dept: (780) 492-9246. CCE (780) 492-0242
Web: http://bit.ly/mfwiki

Office hours: Wednesdays, 1 pm - 3:15 pm. Schedule an appointment.

Info

Michael Frishkopf, Associate Professor of Music at the University of Alberta, is an ethnomusicologist and composer. A graduate of Yale College (BS Mathematics, 1984), Tufts University (MA Ethnomusicology, 1989), and the University of California, Los Angeles (Ph.D. Music, 1999), Dr. Frishkopf’s ethnomusicological research interests include Sufi music; the Arab music industry; sound in Islamic ritual performance; music in West Africa; music and religion; comparative music theory; the sociology of musical taste; social network analysis; digital music repositories; music of refugees (especially in the Buduburam refugee camp, Ghana); participatory action research…

He has received numerous fellowships supporting his research, including grants from Fulbright, the American Research Center in Egypt, the Social Science Research Council, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the Killam Foundation (Canada), the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, supporting his extensive fieldwork in Egypt.

In performance, Michael specializes in the nay (Middle Eastern reed flute), and also performs the song-drum-dance traditions of Ghana. He is the founder (in 2004) of the University of Alberta Middle Eastern and North African Music Ensemble, as well as the University of Alberta West African Music Ensemble (in 1999). Both ensembles perform frequently in public in the Edmonton area, especially to support progressive causes. He also performs “Third Stream” and world music inflected jazz on the piano, following studies with Ran Blake and others in the Third Stream program at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

CV

Publications

Ethnomusicology, psychoacoustics, computer science, media studies, anthropology, Middle East studies, religious/Islamic studies, literary studies, music theory...a sampling of publications available online, in whole or in part...

Theses

Outreach and action research

Interviews

Sufism and the Moulid (Afropop worldwide)

Koranic Recitation (Afropop worldwide)

Thus Spake the Reed Flute (al-Ahram Weekly)

Multimedia

Music composition

http://www.archives.expressnews.ualberta.ca/article/2008/12/9855.html

http://www.fwalive.ualberta.ca/~michaelf/MF_materials/Compositions/

CDs

Giving Voice to Hope: Music of Liberian Refugees
kinka: traditional songs from Avenorpedo

Film

Shadow and Music in Buduburam

Virtual Museum

Virtual Museum of Canadian Traditional Music

Active projects

Technology

Digital media

Educational programs

Some musical compositions and improvisations

Notes on the compositions

Event production

(random sample)