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Introductions

 

  • Introductions

    Welcome! I thought it would be beneficial if we took a minute to introduce ourselves and give an overview on our field of study.

    I am currently a geography graduate student at The University of Kansas in Lawrence. My two main interests are American youth culture and the intersection of ethnomusicology and cartography.

    I started this group along with thechelseagirl to see what would happen if ethnomusicologists were given a place on last.fm to interact, network, ask questions, link to websites, voice their opinions, et cetera.

    Thanks!

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  • Research interests

    Hey everyone!

    Thanks to Nate for starting the group and getting this going.

    I am a PhD student in Ethnomusicology at the University of Toronto. I have many interests but my Dissertation involves the intersection of memory and music in Cape Breton Gaelic song. I am also interested in improvisation, sound culture, and self-representation in performance.

    Let's keep adding our interests, related artists, etc!

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  • Edited by Cryptokoustica on 8 Feb 2008, 14:58
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  • I am very into cultural theory too. Derrida is my homeboy, these days.

    and re: intersection, darn, maybe I stole it from Nate! My thesis is still forming in my head so I haven't got the wording right yet. I mean to say "how memory forms and informs the culture of Gaelic song". Yeah, that's it!

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  • introducing myself

    My interests: refugee music, Africa (writ large), applied, participant observation.

    My MA thesis at Tufts University:
    Music of the Somali Bantu in Vermont

    download it here:http://www.somalibantuvermont.org/CHAPIN_THESIS.pdf

    Now I work for Cumbancha (http://www.cumbancha.com) a record label based in VT. Check out our catalogue and our artists on last.fm.

    www.cumbancha.com
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    • Enkerli said...
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    • 29 Aug 2008, 14:18

    Malian Hunters

    Long-term Ph.D. Candidate at Indiana University's Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology. Been doing research on praise-songs by and for members of freemasonry-like hunters' associations in Southern Mali.

    Haven't been using Last.fm much.

    Been teaching anthropology, sociology, and folkloristics at different institutions in Canada and the United States.
    I'm also a French-speaking Montrealer and a blogger.

    Music in a broad frame
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  • last.fm ethnography

    hello group! thechelseagirl posted on my wall after seeing that I joined. A little bit about me:
    I am starting my senior year at Brown University in Providence, RI. My senior thesis is going to be an ethnography of last.fm using the Brown University Group as a casestudy. I also am looking at other groups to put that one into perspective. For more information and updates as they happen, check out my BLOG.

    This project is just getting underway, so I'm excited to see what happens. I'm also glad that there is an Ethno group here.

    Best,
    Colin

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  • welcome!

    Welcome Enkerli and FItzMIx213. I'm trying to get the group going again. so it's great to have new blood.

    Enkerli, congrats on hanging in on the "long-term" PhD! Your topic sounds fascinating. I"d love to know more about these praise-songs and the mason-like organization they spring from.

    FitzMix213, hee hee! Must be an ethnographic challenge but I can imagine communities like this are ripe for ethnomusicological analysis.

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