The first Musedelica symposium will be held June 14-15th, 2016 at the Sussex Humanities Lab, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. The symposium will bring together students, early career researchers, independent researchers and music producers from the field of psychedelic music and related areas. The symposium focusses on psychedelic music, es...

Here is a link to the resource, "Digital Dynamics Across Cultures", which is an interactive website that focuses on the cultural protocols of the Warumungu people from Central Australia. One most interesting things about this website is that the project members maintain a sophisticated method for partially or completely blocking access to certain c...

  Rembetika concert, performed at the Blue Lamp in Aberdeen, organised by the Hellenic Scottish Society, in April 2014. Filmed by Athanasios Barmpalexis. Many thanks to the musicians, film-maker and The Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen Vocals:Labrini GiotiBouzouki/Vocals:George TsimbouksisGuitar/Vocals: Nikos Sariyiannis 1) 1:0...

South American musician returns to his Irish roots to merge Latin America with Ireland. January ’12: Clare native musicians, Paddy Mulcahy and Tessa O’Connor  led a tour of South American and traditional Irish music entitled “Los Paddy de las Pampas” around South America. While there, the “Los Paddy"  tour brought them through Argentina,...

For Kurdish Alevis, music serves as a mode of articulating andtransmitting ideas about collective history, identity, and connectionsto the geography of former homes in the countryside of Anatolia. Ourguest in Ottoman History Podcast Episode #187, Dr. Ozan Aksoy, hasexplored this crucial role of music within the Alevi community from avariety of angl...

You might remember that last year a number of us on Outreach filled in a survey about the levels of vitality of a music genre, as part of a post-doctoral research project by Dr Catherine Grant. Dr Grant has shared with us the fruits of this work with a project website entitled "Music Vitality and Endangerment", that is now live at www.musicendange...

Unusual Settings of Tunes In the Henebry-O'Neill Wax Cylinder Collection A couple of weeks back, I posted an announcement here regarding the Henebry-O'Neill wax cylinder recordings and the collection of tunes that was added to the UCC music website (O'Neill Henebry Wax Cylinders Online). Since then, I have been working with several other musician-...

MUSICULT ‘15 Music and Cultural Studies Conference, hosted by ITU (Istanbul Technical University) / Turkish Music State Conservatory (BISED HALL) and organized by DAKAM (Eastern Mediterranean Academic Research Center), will take place on May 7-9, 2015. All presented papers are going to be published in the proceedings book with an ISBN number befor...