Conference report: The National Recording Project for Indigenous Performance in Australia’s 9th Symposium on Indigenous Music and Dance, Canberra, Australia, 13–15 July 2010
By Muriel Swijghuisen Reigersberg
News archive
Dr Saida Daukeyeva completes PhD in ethnomusicology
Saida Daukeyeva completed a doctoral dissertation on "Dombra Performance, Meaning and Memory among Mongolian Kazakhs" at SOAS and success fully passed the viva in July. Many congratulations!
REVIEW: Ottoman past in the Balkan Present: Music and Mediation – Conference, Athens, Greece, 30 September – 2 October
By Johan Palme, University of Stockholm
Ethnomusicology to be closed at the University of Birmingham
The BFE has learnt that, with great sadness, the ethnomusicology programme is no longer on the curriculum at Birmingham University. The cut was made despite protests and arguments in favour of continuation from past and present Birmingham students.
Steven Cottrell becomes Professor of Music
The BFE is delighted to announce that Steven Cottrell (currently Goldsmiths College, London) will join City University in the autumn as Professor of Music. Many congratulations!
New Book by BFE Member
Oxford University Press has just published a new book by BFE member David R. M.
Brian Moser and Donald Tayler Colombia recordings online
A significant collection of field recordings made by anthropologists Brian Moser and Donald Tayler in Colombia in 1960-61 has been added to the British Library’s Archival Sound Recordings website.
News from the Hochschule fuer Musik und Theater, Rostock
Dr Frances Wilkins and Dr Barbara Alge have gained a Eurolecture from the Alfred-RoepferFoundation Hamburg.
New Co-editor for Ethnomusicology Forum
The BFE committee is pleased to announce that Simone Kruger, of Liverpool John Moores University, has been appointed as co-editor of our journal, Ethnomusicology Forum.
News from University of Cambridge
In April 2010, Ruth Davis spent a month at the Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, Italy as a Rockefeller Foundation Scholar in Residence. Ruth has also been appointed Fellow of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University, for the year 2010-11. Many congratulations!