Call for Papers on Gypsy Lore: Young Scholar’s Prize in Romani Studies

The Gypsy Lore Society established the Gypsy Lore Society Young Scholar’s Prize in Romani Studies for the best unpublished paper by a young scholar on a topic in Gypsy and Traveler Studies. The prize is a cash award of $500. The winning paper will be published, after any necessary revisions, in an issue of the journal Romani Studies. Continue reading “Call for Papers on Gypsy Lore: Young Scholar’s Prize in Romani Studies”

Archival Sound Recordings: World and Traditional Music Online

Music without walls – world and traditional music online

From Indian ritual music to bawdy English pub songs to Ugandan court music to Nigerian Highlife, the British Library’s collections of world and traditional music are emerging from the shelves of the Sound Archive and appearing on the Archival Sound Recordings website.  Continue reading “Archival Sound Recordings: World and Traditional Music Online”

British Forum of Ethnomusicology ~ Annual One-Day Conference in November 2009

You are cordially invited to the annual One-Day Conference of the British Forum of Ethnomusicology, which will be held on Saturday 7 November 2009, at King’s College London in the Strand.
Please see the Call for Papers pasted in below. Do feel free to circulate this further to any potentially interested parties.

Further details will be posted on the conference website as they become available – see http://bfe2009.net/4.html

British Forum for Ethnomusicology ~ Annual One-Day Conference
King’s College London, Saturday 7 November 2009
Contact: katherine.r.brown@kcl.ac.uk

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Ethnomusicological Research Today – An International Doctoral Workshop

Call for Papers

The Ethnomusicology Department of the University for Music and Drama at Hanover, Germany, is organising an international workshop for Ph.D. candidates in ethnomusicology and its sister disciplines. The workshop will be directed by Prof. Dr. Raimund Vogels (Hanover) and Prof. Dr. Philip V. Bohlman (Chicago/Hanover).
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Call for Papers: May of Musical Methexis 2009

Department of Music Science and Art, University of Macedonia
International Conference “The growth of the art of music in Greece of Europe”

May 29-31, 2009
Concert & Ceremony Hall, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece
Distinguished personalities of international status have been invited as main speakers.

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New Book: “African Perspectives”


As Regine Allgayer-Kaufmann kindly wrote, the book contains papers of the symposium (2004) celebrating Gerhard Kubik’s 70th birthday. There is a DVD included. Everybody interested in writing a review please contact PETER LANG publisher (address in the attachment), as there are copies reserved for reviewers. The book will be officially presented at the  Institut für Musikwissenschaft der Universität Wien next Tuesday (January 27 at 6.30 p.m.).

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