Saturday, January 30, 2010
Friday, September 4, 2009
Outstanding Balinese gamelan beleganjur contest video
Here is a great video of a lomba beleganjur (beleganjur contest) performance shot in Bali in 2005. Highly recommended for the unit on kreasi beleganjur music in Chapter 7 of World Music: Traditions and Transformations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28-5r9-BdwQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28-5r9-BdwQ
Monday, August 31, 2009
Error on p. 46 (re: Warao songs)
Please note that in the Insights and Perspectives box on p. 46, there is an error: Warao shamanistic inflicting songs ascend, whereas the curing songs descend. The reverse is stated in the text. This will be fixed in the next edition of the book. Thanks to Tim Watkins for bringing this error to my attention. I apologize for the error. -mb
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Wesleyan Virtual Instrument Museum
Fantastic resource. YouTube clips of demonstrations on 54 instruments from diverse world cultures, played by master performers. Includes many African percussion and Javanese gamelan instruments, steel drums, and much more.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=CF5B8EB1A7AF8A39
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=CF5B8EB1A7AF8A39
Thursday, July 2, 2009
FSU Gamelan alumnus wins Guenter Schwarz Memorial Scholar Award in physics
https://campus.fsu.edu/profiles/7/
FSU third in nation in arts research
Rankings released by Science Watch rank Florida State University third among U.S. universities for most published papers in performing arts disciplines. FSU's ethnomusicology program was among those identified as being "at the cutting edge of research." Take this link for related article.
http://www.fsu.com/pages/2009/06/30/arts_research.html
http://www.fsu.com/pages/2009/06/30/arts_research.html
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Erratum notice from McGraw-Hill (gongon v. dawuro)
Erratum
Due to an editing error in preparing for a reprint of World Music: Traditions and Transformations a term appears inconsistently in the coverage of Fontomfrom music on pages 192-195 of the text. Both gongon and dawuro are used to refer to an iron bell used in this music. The term dawuro is preferred and should have been used throughout. The first printing of the text used only the term gongon, and this is also the term used throughout the online audio Musical Guided Tour for this material.
We regret the error and any confusion it might cause.
Due to an editing error in preparing for a reprint of World Music: Traditions and Transformations a term appears inconsistently in the coverage of Fontomfrom music on pages 192-195 of the text. Both gongon and dawuro are used to refer to an iron bell used in this music. The term dawuro is preferred and should have been used throughout. The first printing of the text used only the term gongon, and this is also the term used throughout the online audio Musical Guided Tour for this material.
We regret the error and any confusion it might cause.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Listing of ethnomusicologists' blogs
Here is a quite comprehensive, annotated listing of blogs by ethnomusicologists (with links). A very helpful resource compiled by Barbara Alge of the University of Vienna. Thanks, Barbara!
http://www.ethnomblogs.blogspot.com/
http://www.ethnomblogs.blogspot.com/
Thursday, May 21, 2009
New videos from Mali, West Africa (2009)
Here are a couple of great video clips to supplement Chapter 10:
Malian bala (balafon) virtuoso Issa Keita in performance:
A Dogon masked dance in Tireli, Mali:
Thanks to Eli Newberger for sending these links to me.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Great new YouTube links
Here are a couple of additional great YouTubes for your courses. See giant list of YouTubes and other links in this blog for hundreds more! -mb
1. Kora and bala clip featuring Mamadou Diabate on kora and the OTHER Mamadou Diabate on bala. Perfect supplement to discussion of kora and MD in Chapter 10.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAmB5ENJ8Vs
2. "Mission Impossible"theme by Indonesian jazz fusion band and gamelan. Great and fun addition to Chapter 7 intercultural gamelan fusion section, and as a general example of the "traditions and transformations" theme of the text/course.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h5dcjRIQ-E
1. Kora and bala clip featuring Mamadou Diabate on kora and the OTHER Mamadou Diabate on bala. Perfect supplement to discussion of kora and MD in Chapter 10.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAmB5ENJ8Vs
2. "Mission Impossible"theme by Indonesian jazz fusion band and gamelan. Great and fun addition to Chapter 7 intercultural gamelan fusion section, and as a general example of the "traditions and transformations" theme of the text/course.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h5dcjRIQ-E
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Visit my website too!
Full-semester course syllabus, schedule, lecture notes, study guides, assignments
Attached are the files from my Fall 2007 world music course at FSU (15-week semester). The lecture note docs include embedded youtube links, as well as references to the book's CD set tracks and online listening resources. This particular course was for music majors, but I have included lecture notes docs for Chs. 1-6 for both music major and nonmajor courses (the other chapters I treat more or less the same in both contexts). I have also included the take-home self-study assignments that I used for Chapters 12 and 14 (which we did not cover in the lectures), study guides for the two exams, and instructions for a student musicultural journal assignment. I hope you find these resources helpful in the planning of your own courses using World Music: Traditions and Transformations. -mb
Syllabus_F07.doc
Course_calendar_F07.doc
Elements_lecs_Chs1-6_musmaj.doc
Elements_lecs_Chs1-6_nonmaj.doc
Africa_lectures_Ch10.doc
Latin_lectures_Ch11.doc
Irish_lectures_Ch9.doc
Exam_1_study_guide.doc
Bali_lectures_Ch7.doc
India_lectures_Ch8.doc
China_lectures_Ch13.doc
Exam_2_study_guide.doc
Self-Study_Assignment_Ch.12.doc
Self-Study_Assignment_Ch.14.doc
Musicultural_journal_assgnmt.doc
P.S. Links to tudy guides for exams 1 and 2 were formerly reversed. Sorry. Fixed now.
Syllabus_F07.doc
Course_calendar_F07.doc
Elements_lecs_Chs1-6_musmaj.doc
Elements_lecs_Chs1-6_nonmaj.doc
Africa_lectures_Ch10.doc
Latin_lectures_Ch11.doc
Irish_lectures_Ch9.doc
Exam_1_study_guide.doc
Bali_lectures_Ch7.doc
India_lectures_Ch8.doc
China_lectures_Ch13.doc
Exam_2_study_guide.doc
Self-Study_Assignment_Ch.12.doc
Self-Study_Assignment_Ch.14.doc
Musicultural_journal_assgnmt.doc
P.S. Links to tudy guides for exams 1 and 2 were formerly reversed. Sorry. Fixed now.
Labels: assignments, course schedule, exam study guides, lecture notes, syllabus, youtube
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Giant world music youtube links list
Take the link below to a list of hundreds of youtube video clips, organized by chapter, that connect to my textbook WORLD MUSIC: TRADITIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS. Lots of cool stuff, and great for livening up lectures, giving students supplementary viewing/listening experiences, etc. -mb
Giant_youtube_link_list_upd.doc
Giant_youtube_link_list_upd.doc
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Autism in academia article from Chronicle
http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=c4kySwjbHNFTb53XbGGqr9sxNh5vsjht
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Javanese gamelan teaching resources
Take this link to a beautifully clear photo of the University of Wisconsin's Central Javanese gamelan. Hold cursor over any instrument and it will bring up the instrument's name. Click on any instrument and it will link you to close-up photos and instrument descriptions. Beyond the photo, the website as a whole is excellent. A very nice resource for teaching!
http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~jjordan/gamelan/instrum-photo.html
http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~jjordan/gamelan/instrum-photo.html
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