"I just returned from Italy, having taken the opportunity to visit
friends once I was overseas. The Florence meetings were very interesting
but barely scratched the surface of music (unless bird "song" and whale
"song" are accorded musical status, as many conference attendees were
ready to do).
The meetings focused largely on the evolution of communication in
general, with relatively little attention accorded to human language and
music. Apparently, music will be at centre stage in subsequent meetings
that are planned. I downloaded your fascinating article on the bone
flute some time ago (from the Internet) and mentioned it in my
presentation (even had transparencies of your illustrations). I also
mentioned (and played a sample of) the Kilmer, Crocker, & Brown song.
Later, Bruno Nettl told me that ethnomusicologists reject the Kilmer
et al. interpretation but I never learned why. Unfortunately, the
meeting was dense with presentations and very light on discussion time,
impeding the exchange of information across disciplines." [click the
link for more]
"Davey
D is a Hip Hop historian, journalist, deejay and community activist.
He's been down with Hip Hop since 1977 in the Bronx where he started out
as an emcee for two crews; TDK [Total Def Krew] out of Co-op City and
the Avengers out of the Marble Hill Section of the Bronx. Later Davey D
came out to Cali to go to school at UC Berkeley and started deejaying in
the Bay Area. His mobile deejay work and community activism eventually
lead him deejaying at radio stations including KALX, KPFA and later KMEL
Davey D is a proud member of The PROs
Record Pool where he served as director for several y"ears in
the late 80s -early 90s. He is also a co-founder of the
Bay
Area Hip Hop Coalition [BAHHC] Davey D is also a member of the
Bay
Area Black Journalist Association [BABJA]"
Professor Bowman pioneered popular music studies at
York University. He lectures, publishes and broadcasts in many areas of
popular music, from country, R & B and gospel to reggae, rap and funk. He
has written liner notes for dozens of recordings and regularly authors,
produces and advises on major documentary and CD reissue projects for record
companies in Europe and North America. His many broadcast credits include a
five-part radio series on the history of Canadian popular music and frequent
guest spots on CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera.
Rob Bowman's work as an interpreter and documentarian
of historical recordings of popular music has been recognized
internationally. A five-time Grammy Award nominee, he won a Grammy in 1996
for Best Album Notes for his 47,000 word monograph accompanying the 10-CD
boxed set of The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles, Vol. 3: 1972-1975,
which he co-produced. His nominations included Best Album Notes for The
Malaco Records Story: The Last Soul Company and The Complete Stax
Singles, Vol. 1 1959-1968, and Best Historical Reissue for The Otis
Redding Story. He received his fifth Grammy nomination in January 2002
for Best Album Notes for the 4 CD box set The Stax Story, which he
also co-produced. [click the link for more]
Robert
Whitney Templeman
Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology and Musicology
BS, Northwestern University
MM, PhD, ABD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Specializations include:
music of the African diaspora;
Latin American music;
African music;twentieth-century
Music;world
music instrumental,
vocal, and dance performance
labs;and social theory
and cultural anthropology.
Fellowships and grants include Fulbright Scholar (Bolivia, 1995-96),
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (1995-96),
Inter-American Foundation (1992, 1995-96), and Tinker Foundation and the
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (1990, 1992). Active
projects and interests in Internet-based educational technologies
include course website design, and streaming audio and video distributed
learning projects. Other roles at UC and CCM include: Artistic Director,
World Music Concert Series; Fulbright Committee
(member); CCM Library Committee (member). Professional membership
in the Society for Ethnomusicology. UC-CCM
faculty since 1997. [click the link for more]
Who Wants to Be an
Ethnomusicologist?
Do you know your Raga from Reggae? Are you
annoying everyone around you by singing songs in just about every language
except English? Do you have a passion for the music of World cultures? Then
test yout Ethnomusicology skills right here! [click the link for more]
Steve Loza, Ph.D., hired in January to lead the Arts of
Americas Institute (AAI) in the UNM College of Fine Arts, believes that
performance and research make beautiful music.
“I don’t like to separate the academic from the
artistic,” Loza said. “Teaching and research are important, but if you don’t
engage the public, then you can’t get the work out into the community.”
On faculty at the University of California at Los Angeles
(UCLA), for more than 17 years, Loza is taking a leave of absence for two
years to direct the AAI. He is also a professor in the Department of Music
at UNM, specializing in Latin American and U.S. Latino musical culture, West
Africa and African American music, jazz studies, multiculturalism and
globalization. [click the link for more]
