Dear all, On Thursday 17 October, as part of the Arts and Humanities Festival, Willard McCarty will be speaking on 'The Digital and the Human: Remembering the Future of the Digital Humanities', a version of his landmark Busa lecture. Following Willard's lecture, I will introduce a short panel discussion on the themes of the lecture. Members of th...

From the BFE website:   Saturday 19th October, 2013 in association with THE SCHOOL OF MUSIC, CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   Registration This conference is free-of-charge, but registration is essential. Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to reserve your place, as capacity is limited. Preliminary Program (including travel details and acc...

For any researchers out there, i'd like to know your experiences on this... Here are some short questions that have been giving me interesting answers during interviews at the moment: In what area did you complete your undergrad? What were your thoughts on what ethnomusicology was before you became involved in the area, what was it that intere...

Some photos of musicians in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Performing Englishness: Identity and Politics in a Contemporary Folk Resurgence by Trish Winter and Simon Keegan-Phipps. This week sees the publication of Performing Englishness, a co-authored book by British Cultural Studies scholar Trish Winter (University of Sunderland) and Ethnomusicologist Simon Keegan-Phipps. The book charts the rise of E...

Ηello!this is a typical example of greek "Rebetiko" song.The instrument we hear is called in greek "Harmonica" and is one of the ancestors of the accordion we know today.The bad thing is that we are not sure about how this instrument exactly looked like.There are some clues and some bad photos,but still we can not know if the instrument we can see ...

Looking forward to this conference in London Tate Modern Bankside SE1 London United Kingdom Tuesday, 7 May 2013 at 09:00 - Wednesday, 8 May 2013 at 17:00 (BST) https://prestocentre.org/calendar/screening-future-2013-conference Screening the future is an annual showcase delivered by PrestoCentre and focusing on the latest trends in audiovisual...