BFE Podcast Project

The BFE Podcast Project aims at distributing exciting audio publications on ethnomusicological topics supervised by our Podcast Team. If you wish to submit a podcast to the BFE, please follow our Podcast Guidelines. Contributions selected by the BFE Podcast Team will be published once a month as part of the Regular Podcast Series or the BFE Student Podcasts, and can be streamed on your computers, tablets or smartphones via our SoundCloud player.

If you would like to produce a podcast in a language other than English, please send us an e-mail to podcastsatbfe.org.uk

A full catalogue of BFE Podcasts can be found here, or here for BFE Special Edition Podcasts.

Latest Podcasts

The Forest of Dean: Lore of Stone - Xena White

The Forest of Dean: Lore of Water and Stone, Lore of Stone is an immersive audio journey through the ancient stone sites of the Forest of Dean. Blending folksong, interview and narration we wander through Poor’s Allotment to hear the tale of Jack O’Kent and the devil, follow the Devil’s quoit hurled toward the banks of the Severn, and visit the places where he broods over his defeat – the Devil’s Pulpit at Tintern and the Devil’s Chapel at Bream. From Staunton, the “stony settlement,” we trace the landscape’s mythology: the Longstone that bleeds, the Buckstone where druids once initiated, and the underground mines where many a Forester met their fate.

Biography
Xena is a multispecies audio-visual anthropologist born in the Forest of Dean whose work delves into entangled ecologies—the relationships weaving together humans, non-humans, cultures, and environments. She believes in the radical potential for ethnographic media to capture the emotional and sensory dimensions of multispecies connections, revealing their significance in the mundane and everyday. Her approach underscores the urgent need to share alternative narratives of coexistence, challenging the anthropocentric tales that threaten the planet’s climate.

Sara Rohr - Katajjaq Throat Singing

This podcast focusses on the Katajjaq throat singing tradition practiced by Inuit communities in Canada: Sara Valentina Rohr is an ethnomusicologist and historian based in Switzerland. She holds a master’s degree in World Arts and Music and history. Now, she is a PhD student in Cultural Anthropology of Music at the University of Bern, funded by a scholarship from the Swiss National Foundation. In her PhD project, she engages with the Archives Sonores Inuit, an Inuit song archive recorded in 1938 and 1939 by Swiss ethnographer Jean Gabus, which is now part of the permanent collection of the Musée d’Ethnographie de Neuchâtel. Furthermore, she has been newly elected to the board of the Swiss Society for Ethnomusicology. In her free time, she likes to yodel and play the piano.

 

Previous BFE Podcasts

BFE Podcasts

The field of ethnomusicology is vast, exciting and full of relevant questions that deal with the relationship between human beings and music. These podcasts take us on an exciting, emotional and adventurous musical journeys to understand those questions.

A full list of BFE podcasts can be found here.

BFE Special Edition Podcasts

BFE Special Edition Podcasts provide a rapid response to current issues within the discipline. A call for contributions will be released for each Special Edition Podcast series.

A full list of BFE Special Edition podcasts can be found here.

The following pieces of music featured on our BFE Podcast Series jingles are used with kind permission from the artists: