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AMS and SEM news
Several of our members will be participating in the upcoming national meeting of the American Musicological Society and Society for Ethnomusicology. At AMS: Jeannette Jones will present “Lyrics in the Air: The Role of Music Videos in Deaf Culture”, at a session titled “Music and Disability on Screen” Thursday November 7th from 8-11:00 pm. She […]
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, […]
Visiting Dvorak in Prague
Many of us are off traveling this summer for research and field work. This is the first in a series profiling students’ summer work. At the beginning of June, doctoral student (historical musicology) Julia O’Toole went to Prague for a week-long trip into the Dvořák archives at the Czech Museum of Music. Photo by […]