A selected list of online research resources for world music and ethnomusicology courses. Some Youtube videos for my world music courses also included.
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RILM’s recent publication: Music’s Intellectual History (2009), edited by Zdravko Blažeković and Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie. It includes 66 essays on the history of music scholarship from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.
A full table of contents can be downloaded from here.
Official Website: http://www.rilm.org/publications/publication_Perspectives.html
This footage, titled Ghosts of Empire – Peking,” was made by Deane H. Dickason in 1931 with a 16 mm camera. It’s one of the early documentaries that depicts the daily-life objects in Republican China, such as “bactrian camels enter Peking, gates, rickshaws, elaborate shop facades, coolie cleans street, native bazaar, shops, child making cigarettes…, according to the Travel Film Archive’s official website. We can see how Peking is represented through the “Western eye.”
Peking – Ghosts of Empire 1931
However, what attracted me most is a single street puppeteer’s performance (4′14 – 5′19″) It’s so vivid and just like what Li Dou 李斗 described in his 《楊州畫舫錄》:
「……又圍布作房，支以一木，以五指運三寸傀儡，金鼓喧闐，詞白則用叫顙子，均一人為之，為之肩擔戲。……」（卷十一 – 虹橋錄下 – 39 條）
Niether can the music nor the puppeteer’s singing-like narration be heard in the film, however, the performance is very much like Jiandan Xi( 肩擔戲), which makes me wonder how this can be connected to the early stages of Taiwanese glove puppetry…
＃題外話，目前所知，台灣的布袋戲發展到 1930 年代末的皇民劇時期，就已經出現用唱片播放，使用歐美古典音樂與日本音樂的形式了。也由於吸收了人劇的表演形式、劇目與音樂，也早已形成劇團制度。像影片中這樣的表演形式，在1930年代的台灣可能極少或甚至不復存在。而台灣一些早期的紀錄片中，不知有否紀錄相關的影像…（至少最早由日人高松豐次郎在1907年所拍攝的《台灣實況の紹介》內應該是沒有的）如果有任何識者知道相關訊息，也煩請告知…
This footage is from Youtube The Travel Film Archive Channal, where one can find “a collection of travelogues and educational and industrial films – many of them in color – that show the world the way it was between 1900 and 1970.” The official website of the Travel Film Archive is
http://www.travelfilmarchive.com/。
Here are other films about East Asian countries:
Forbidden City 1940s
Peking – The Imperial City 1930
Manchukuo (Manchuria) 1938
Shanghai 1947
Hong Kong, Gateway To China, 1938
Hong Kong – Franconia Around the World, 1930s
Tibet – Land of Isolation 1934
Bits of Life In Japan 1920s
Japan – The Island Empire 1932
Japan In Cherry Blossom Time 1932
Siam To Korea 1931
Here is the information of a composer-in-residence fellowship at this year’s soundSCAPE Festival in Maccagno, Italy. It comes with a commission, plus travel expenses, accomodation, and meals. See the link below:
http://www.soundscapefestival.org/cir.html
Tags: Composer, fellowship, soundSCAPE Festival
Tufts University
Part-Time Position in African Traditional Performing Arts Instructor
The Department of Music at Tufts University announces a part-time position as an undergraduate instructor of African traditional performing arts (primarily song, instrumental music, and dance) to teach performance ensemble courses that culminate in performances by students. We seek an expert teacher/performer of African traditional performing arts with extensive familiarity with the perspectives of born-in-the-tradition culture-bearers. Excellence in performance and teaching of performance is required. Experience in teaching and performing with beginning students in the African traditional performing arts is preferred. The successful candidate must show promise for successful collaboration with members of the full-time, tenured-track faculty of the Music Department, particularly those whose area of expertise is the ethnomusicological study of traditional African performance arts from Ghana.
Review of applications begins February 5, 2010 and continues until the position is filled. Please send a cover letter, CV, three letters of recommendation, and documentation of recent performances (such as audio or video recordings, program notes or other writings) to African Traditional Performing Arts Search, Department of Music, Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center, Tufts University, 20 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA, 02155.
Tufts University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer.
We are committed to increasing the diversity of our faculty. Members of underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply.
Tags: Ethnomusicology, Job Announcement, Part-time, Tufts University
The Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology (PRE) is seeking submissions for its 15th volume, scheduled for publication in Spring 2010. This peer- reviewed publication, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, is edited and managed by graduate students in the Department of Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
We welcome submissions not only from our colleagues in ethnomusicology and systematic musicology, but also from those in allied disciplines such as musicology, anthropology, dance ethnology, cultural studies, folklore, sociology, law, and area studies. Contributions must be intellectually rigorous and pertinent to the field of ethnomusicology.
PRE is currently accepting contributions in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. We particularly encourage work that takes advantage of the journal’s online multimedia capabilities (audio, photo, video).
Beginning this year, PRE also will accept documentary videos for peer- reviewed publication on its website.
Text-based submissions should be sent via e-mail in Microsoft Word (.doc) format, with media clips included as separate attachments. We also accept files on CD-R and DVD. It is the contributor’s responsibility to obtain permissions for any copyrighted materials.
For complete submission guidelines, please visit PRE online at: http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/pre/
The deadline for submissions is January 4, 2010. Please contact us as soon as possible if you are interested in submitting an article for review or have any questions.
E-MAIL: pre@ucla.edu
ADDRESS:
Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology
UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology
2539 Schoenberg Music Building
Box 951657
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1657
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