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ICAS Book Prize

Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover   Emmichplatz 1   30175 Hannover

Prof. Dr. Phil. Bohlman
Prof. Dr. Raimund Vogels

 Center for World Music
Besucheradresse:
Seelhorststraße 3

We are pleased to announce the publication of Re-counting Knowledge in Song: Change Reflected in Kaulong Music by Birgit Drüppel. This book was officially launched at the Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies by Dr Jacob Simet, Executive Director, National Cultural Commission, on 16 November 2009.

 

Re-counting Knowledge in Song is a musical ethnography that is a base study of the music traditions of the Kaulong people near the south coast of West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. It embodies the description and structural analysis of traditional Kaulong music in its vocal, instrumental, and vocal-instrumental forms, song and dance celebrations (singsing) being the largest events which establish and strengthen family and trade relationships. Historical events, such as the colonialisation by Germans and Australians, and the consequent advancement of the Catholic Mission, had a lasting influence on traditional culture and music. In particular, the mission was the most influential, facilitating the penetration of non-Kaulong cultural elements into Kaulong tradition. By adopting Christianity, the Kaulong reacted to a new, broader world view which is translated into music. Traditional singsing became less important and lost some of their meaning, while trade contacts with the neighbouring coastal area (Kaul speakers) became frequent and resulted in the adoption of local coastal singsing, as well as singsing from indirect trading partners in Kilenge (singsing tumbuan) and Siassi (singsing sia). New music genres such as kwaia (Christian choir music) developed and, after national independence, stringbands formed which play popular music at state celebrations and sosol (social gatherings).

 

I have been busy lately, there was hardly any time to update this site. Today, my host (doteasy.com) deleted half of this site for no good reason at all. It took me a long time to upload incomplete backups. I will not be able to update this page for quite some time.

Bitte an Interessierte weiterleiten!

Gesucht werden Doktoranden, die sich mit den Themen Weltmusik,  Globalisierung, Migration, Kulturtransfer, Inszenierung kultureller Vielfalt usw. beschäftigen.

TBL. 

 Guten Tag, bonjour à tous,

Royal Holloway University of London

Postcolonial Research Group:Postcolonial Memory: Resistance, Representation, and Revival

A Postgraduate Research Day

Keynote Lecture by Joseph Roach (Yale University) 18th September 2009 at Royal Holloway

This event aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum for postgraduate students and emerging scholars to discuss contemporary issues in postcolonial studies. The day will incorporate paper presentations and discussion groups.

In der Reihe "Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv – Historische Klangdokumente"  ist eine neue CD erschienen: 

Robert Lehmann-Nitsche – Walzenaufnahmen aus Argentinien 1905-1909/ Grabaciones en cilindros de Argentina. Kommentar: Miguel A. Garcia.Hg./Ed. Lars-Christian Koch, Susanne Ziegler und Barbara Göbel. BPhA-WA4/5.

2 CD + 112 p. booklet (deutsch/spanisch), Noten, Fotos.

Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin und Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut – Preußischer Kulturbesitz.

Professor Hugo Strötbaum has asked that I help spread the word about his new
site, www.recordingpioneers.com. Though still a work in progress, you will
find a trove of information on record companies and their principals,
information that would be very hard to find anywhere else.  See as one
example the entry on William Darby Sinkler (click on “Pioneers”, then
“Darby” to read the page.)

Der Fachbereich 07 - Geschichts-und Kulturwissenschaften, - Institut für Ethnologie und
Afrikastudien - sucht zum 01.02.2010
eine/einen Postdoktorand/in
(Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L)
- Kenn-Nr.: 1209-07-wiss-sd -
Die Stelle ist zunächst befristet bis zum 31.01.2012 mit der Option einer Verlängerung.