{"id":126,"date":"2013-07-09T14:39:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T18:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/musicsoc\/?p=126"},"modified":"2013-07-09T14:39:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T18:39:54","slug":"from-the-alps-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/musicsoc\/2013\/07\/09\/from-the-alps-2\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Alps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doctoral student Andrea Lieberherr Douglass (Ethnomusicology) reports from Switzerland with her family where she is doing additional fieldwork for her dissertation.<a href=\"\/musicsoc\/files\/2013\/07\/photo-1-e1372730540810.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-113\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\" title=\"photo-1\" alt=\"photo-1\" src=\"\/musicsoc\/files\/2013\/07\/photo-1-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/musicsoc\/files\/2013\/07\/photo-e1372730816188.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-114\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\" title=\"photo\" alt=\"photo\" src=\"\/musicsoc\/files\/2013\/07\/photo-e1372730816188-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/musicsoc\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wpgallery\/img\/t.gif\" title=\"gallery columns=&quot;2&quot;\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m in Switzerland\u00a0with my family\u00a0for six weeks this summer to conduct additional field research. At the moment we are staying three weeks in the Appenzell area of Switzerland, \u00a0in the same small town we lived in last year for seven months. Then we are staying for three weeks in the adjacent valley, the Toggenburg. The Appenzell and the Toggenburg comprise the Alpstein, the geographic area where the\u00a0<i>Streichmusik<\/i> I&#8217;m studying is located. Mostly I am here conducting interviews with performers, politicians, cultural organizers and tourist bureaus. Through the Zentrum f\u00fcr Appenzellische Volksmusik (Center for Appenzeller Volksmusik) my husband and I are participating in some rehearsals and performances of\u00a0<i>Streichmusik. <\/i>I&#8217;m also attending alpine festivals that include music and dance, performances in restaurants and concerts as well as \u00a0musical and theatrical celebrations of the 500 year anniversary of Appenzell joining Switzerland.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctoral student Andrea Lieberherr Douglass (Ethnomusicology) reports from Switzerland with her family where she is doing additional fieldwork for her dissertation. I&#8217;m in Switzerland\u00a0with my family\u00a0for six weeks this summer to conduct additional field research. At the moment we are staying three weeks in the Appenzell area of Switzerland, \u00a0in the same small town we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7368,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,8,13,14],"tags":[29,25,16,22,24,28,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/musicsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/musicsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/musicsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/musicsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/musicsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/musicsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/musicsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/musicsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/musicsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/musicsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}