Music of Anthropology
Music, Anthropology, Ethnomusicology For the June 2017 issue of Open Anthropology I assembled 15 articles for an issue titled “Music – Anthropology – Life.” Under the new agree…
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Life Lessons From Prince: Four Things I learned After Four Days at Paisley Park. Part 3
(photo credit 3. Embrace your weird. It’s what changes the world for the better. Prince was certainly not a human you would describe as “ordinary” or “mainstream” or…
Turismo y música, desde la antropología: Identidades en Venta, de Georgina Flores Mercado y Fernando Nava López
Identidades en venta: músicas tradicionales y turismo en México. Reseña, por Gabriela Vargas Cetina Desde el artículo pionero de Theron Núñez en 1963 sobre el turismo en un…
A Double Bass, Tree Rings, and the Truth
Modern science is full of surprising analytical techniques that can be used in a wide variety of remarkable circumstances. My favorite technique is dendrochronology—the study of “tree time.”…
Música mayense de Tabasco y Quintana Roo
Durante el mes de marzo que está terminando tuvimos en la ciudad de Mérida la Feria Internacional de la Lectura de Yucatán (FILEY), organizada por la Universidad Autónoma…
Cocina, música y comunicación: Tecnologías y estética en el Yucatán contemporáneo. Presentación por Marina Alonso Bolaños
Cocina, música y comunicación: Tecnologías y estética en el Yucatán contemporáneo, de Steffan Igor Ayora Diaz, Gabriela Vargas Cetina y Francisco Javier Fernández Repetto (UADY / CONACYT 2017) Mar…
Buenos Aires Subway #Soundtrack
The city rattles, rustles and roars unremittingly. In Buenos Aires you hear the constant medley of restless mechanical noises and the humming of millions of lives. The central pitch of this soundsca…
Survey participants wanted: Music education in Porirua Schools
Do you know any young people who attend school in Porirua? I would like to invite them to participate in a survey about music education in Porirua schools.…
Remembering Genocide in the Cambodian Diaspora
by Elisa Sandri ‘As the body moves where then does memory live?’ – Katharya Um For many Cambodians, the wounds of the genocide are still open and hurting.…
Song as Boundary Work: On Dylan and the Nobel Prize
This post was submitted by Robert Skoro. A musician-turned-anthropologist, Robert works in private industry as a strategist and researcher. Bob Dylan has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature,…
This is your brain on Li-Lo: Ayahuasca in the Twenty-First Century
The genie is out of the bottle, tweeting about the next shamanic bodywork leadership seminar, and the bottle; well, check and see if it isn’t in the back…
This is your brain on Li-Lo: Ayahuasca in the Twenty-First Century
The genie is out of the bottle, tweeting about the next shamanic bodywork leadership seminar, and the bottle; well, check and see if it isn’t in the back…
This is your brain on Li-Lo: Ayahuasca in the Twenty-First Century
The genie is out of the bottle, tweeting about the next shamanic bodywork leadership seminar, and the bottle; well, check and see if it isn’t in the back…
This is your brain on Li-Lo: Ayahuasca in the Twenty-First Century
The genie is out of the bottle, tweeting about the next shamanic bodywork leadership seminar, and the bottle; well, check and see if it isn’t in the back…
New music video for Malcolm Jamar
My cousin Malcolm Jamar, a hip hop artist, came to California and will soon be returning back to Indianapolis. As a souvenir, I directed and co-produced a music…
New music video for Malcolm Jamar
My cousin Malcolm Jamar, a hip hop artist, came to California and will soon be returning back to Indianapolis. As a souvenir, I directed and co-produced a music…
New music video for Malcolm Jamar
My cousin Malcolm Jamar, a hip hop artist, came to California and will soon be returning back to Indianapolis. As a souvenir, I directed and co-produced a music…
New music video for Malcolm Jamar
My cousin Malcolm Jamar, a hip hop artist, came to California and will soon be returning back to Indianapolis. As a souvenir, I directed and co-produced a music…
An Interview with Curator and American Music Specialist Levon Williams
Levon Williams will return to Indiana University in the fall of 2016 to pursue a MA degree in Non-Profit Management in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs.…
“Turn Down for What?”
A Brazilian Remix One of the first things I noticed about Kendrick Lamar’s recent performance at the 2016 Grammys was the noise. Fans and critics have written about…
An Interview with Dorothy J. Berry, Metadata Specialist and Project Manager for Umbra, an Initiative of the Givens Collection of African American Literature, University of Minnesota Libraries
While a graduate student at Indiana University, Dorothy J. Berry concurrently earned an MA degree in ethnomusicology from the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and a MLS degree…
Is music dead? (more evidence)
Here is Rich Cohen on Charlie Rose last night discussing his new book The Sun and the Moon and The Rolling Stones (with Jeff Glor sitting in for Mr. Rose.)…
Doing fieldwork with kids: Part I
Recently I started a new research project looking at the social impacts of three Sistema-inspired orchestral music education programmes operating in low decile schools in the Wellington region,…
Shopping is Civil War (with videos)
Here from the NoOrient site is my commentary on some recent shopping trips… Filed under: commodity, music, trinketization