Memory, Music and Movement An AHRC-North Atlantic Fiddle Convention (NAFCo) Networking Project Wednesday 15 November, 5.15pm University of Glasgow (14 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH, Room 2) ‘Prolegomena to Practice-Based Research in Traditional Music’, Simon McKerrell Wednesday 6 December 2017, 4.00pm Newcastle University, the International Centre for Music Studies (ICMuS, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU) … Continue reading Upcoming Talk this Wednesday Glasgow Uni practice as research
Upcoming Talk Glasgow for NAFCo
I'm giving a paper soon please do consider coming along if you're interested, University of Glasgow, 15th November 2017: Prolegomena to Practice-Based Research in Traditional Music 15 November 2017, 17:15 - 19:00 Memory, Music and Movement An AHRC-North Atlantic Fiddle Convention (NAFCo) Networking Project The Elphinstone Institute of the University of Aberdeen in partnership with … Continue reading Upcoming Talk Glasgow for NAFCo
Critical Discourse Group Newcastle Talks
Fantastic new John Renbourn Composition Archive at Newcastle University
We are delighted to announce that the family of the late John Renbourn have gifted his entire compositional archive to Newcastle University's Special Collections. Photo: Dr Mick Wright of Newcastle University John Renbourn was one of the founding members of the British folk band, Pentangle, a group which had a huge influence on the burgeoning … Continue reading Fantastic new John Renbourn Composition Archive at Newcastle University
Threshold concepts in the semiotics and sociology of music
[Picture credit: Endrick Water taken by Johnny Watt source: Flickr.] The point of this page is to set out just a few of the key threshold concepts in the sociology and anthropology of music with the aim of trying to better explain what and why we do. A threshold concept is that which could not … Continue reading Threshold concepts in the semiotics and sociology of music
J.M. Carpenter Folksong Collection
Update from Julia Bishop: Dear friends and colleagues, We are delighted to be putting on two events relating to the J. M. Carpenter Folk Song Collection, about to become publicly accessible online as part of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Digital Archive. This fantastic collection, made in the 1930s but not generally availabile till now, … Continue reading J.M. Carpenter Folksong Collection
Call for Papers | BFE2018 | Newcastle University
We've just confirmed our keynote speaker for the British Forum for Ethnomusicology next April at Newcastle University--Professor Britta Sweers. I am delighted to have someone of her standing and thoughtfulness come to speak to UK and Irish ethnomusicologists. Please do submit a paper to the conference. Website for it is here: http://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/bfe2018/callforpapers/ Can't wait to … Continue reading Call for Papers | BFE2018 | Newcastle University
Scotland in Europe…
Take a look at @EcSocHistScot's Tweet: https://twitter.com/EcSocHistScot/status/880773591641534464?s=09
thoughts on practice-based research…
Recently, I've been discussing practice-based research in traditional music. Here are my basic assumptions about the epistemology of practice-based research--comments needed and welcome! There appear to be three basic positions: 1) The phenomenological position: This appears to be the most widely held view in Anglo-American scholarship on practice-based research (in my opinion). In this position, … Continue reading thoughts on practice-based research…
JOB: Edinburgh University
JOB opportunity: Teaching Fellow in Scottish Ethnology The Celtic and Scottish Studies Department, part of the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, is seeking to appoint an outstanding candidate with clear evidence in teaching in Scottish Ethnology.The appointee should be able to teach students at all levels of the undergraduate curriculum and the MSc programme. In … Continue reading JOB: Edinburgh University
