Michael Frishkopf

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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
Music: Giving Voice to Hope: Music of Liberian Refugees: http://bit.ly/BuduCD
kinka: traditional songs from avenorpedo (Ghana): http://kinkadrum.org
Music and media in the Arab World: http://bit.ly/mmaw
Film: Shadow and Music in Buduburam: http://bit.ly/shadowbudu

Afropop interview on Sufi music


bio, CV, publications, music...


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


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

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.

Publications

Some online publications

Press (2010).

  • Sufi music review: (1) Soufis d'algerie: Mostaganem/Algeria: The Sufis of Mostaganem. 2003. Prophet Collection 31. Philips 472 503-2; (2) Chant soufi de Syrie: Dhikr Qadiri Khalwati de la Zawiya Hilaliya, Alep /Sufi chanting from Syria : Dhikr Qadiri Khalwati of the Zawiya Hilaliya, Aleppo . 2002. Maison des Cultures du Monde, Inedit W 260109. (3) Maroc: L'art du sama' a Fes/Morocco: The Art of Sama' in Fez . 2002. Disques VDE-GALLO, VDE CD-1104. (CD reviews). In Yearbook of the International Council for Traditional Music.
  • of Asmahan’s Secrets: Woman, War, and Song (No. 13 in the Middle East Monograph Series ( Austin: UT Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2000), by Sherifa Zuhur), International Journal of Middle East Studies (fall 2002).

Dissertation:

(available fulltext via UMI)

Active projects

Educational programs

Some musical compositions and improvisations

Local links: Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology n FolkwaysAlive n FolkwaysAlive wiki Society for Arab Music Research (SAMR - ????) n SAMR wiki Documentary videos for teaching ethnomusicology n wiki version Mohamed Fawzy Association On musical acoustics and drumming