Month: July 2013
From the Alps
Doctoral student Andrea Lieberherr Douglass (Ethnomusicology) reports from Switzerland with her family where she is doing additional fieldwork for her dissertation. I’m in Switzerland with my family for six weeks this summer to conduct additional field research. At the moment we are staying three weeks in the Appenzell area of Switzerland, in the same small town we […]
Out of Africa
Doctoral student Karl Haas (Ethnomusicology) is spending 12 weeks in Ghana this summer doing fieldwork for his dissertation, courtesy of a predoctoral grant he received from the West African Research Association. Karl is researching drumming in tribes of Ghana. Pictured below are pictures of of Karl and his research assistant, Fatawu, scenes from Accra and Tamale, […]