ethnomusicology

It should be in the library of every serious American ethnomusicologist, folklorist and popular music fan.--Reviewed by Ernest J.

Swiss ethnomusicologist Marcel Cellier is credited with bringing Bulgarian music to Western audiences through the release on his label, Disques Cellier, of "Le MystA[umlaut]re des Voix Bulgares" ("The Mystery of Bulgarian Voices") in 1975.

A folklorist and ethnomusicologist, he has a degree in the classical music of southern India, has played in a hard-core punk band in New York's gritty club scene, co-founded a Bosnian folk and pop band and worked on several movie scores, including the 2004 film "Cold Mountain."

The recordings were made on Croker Island in the period July 2003 to November 2004 by Linda Barwick (ethnomusicologist, University of Sydney) and Bruce Birch (linguist, University of Melbourne) in the context of an Iwaidja language documentation project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation of Germany as part of a larger endangered languages documentation project.

* In The Big Drum Ritual of Carriacou: Praisesongs in Rememory of Flight (University of Florida Press, November 1998), ethnomusicologist Lorna McDaniel challenges the contention that Africans and their descendants did not leave written records of their history and culture.

The ethnomusicologist Ellen Koskoff has produced a long-anticipated study of music in the Lubavitcher Jewish community in America (particularly Crown Heights, New York, but also smaller communities in Pennsylvania and Minnesota).

Also as an anthropologist and an ethnomusicologist I'm developing radical new theories and they'd like to be a part of that.

Guest speaker was ethnomusicologist Phyllis Kinney who has spent a lifetime collecting and singing songs from Wales.

Olsen, a Florida State University professor and ethnomusicologist, points out, the timeless quality of Andean music is the unifying factor in the program.

Angulo was not a trained ethnomusicologist, but demanding such of him is tantamount to scrapping any decision to read within the discipline as it currently stands - which is what most people do.

Born in Sao Paulo and educated at the Conservatory of Music and Drama, Andrade was an ethnomusicologist whose knowledge of folklore, anthropology, and myth provided important sources for his most important creative work.