Bakan WORLD MUSIC blog: July 2009

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

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Thursday, July 2, 2009

FSU Gamelan alumnus wins Guenter Schwarz Memorial Scholar Award in physics

https://campus.fsu.edu/profiles/7/

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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

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About Me

Name: Michael Bakan

Location: Tallahassee, Florida, United States

I am Associate Professor and Head of the Ethnomusicology/World Music program at Florida State University, where I direct both the Sekaa Gong Hanuman Agung Balinese Gamelan and the Music-Play Project, a medical ethnomusicology program for children on the autism spectrum and their families. I am the author of two books: World Music: Traditions and Transformations (McGraw-Hill, 2007), which has been adopted as the textbook for world music, multicultural music, and music appreciation courses at more than one hundred universities throughout North America and internationally; and Music of Death and New Creation: Experiences in the World of Balinese Gamelan Beleganjur (University of Chicago Press, 1999), which was reviewed in The Times (London) as one of the two "most significant publications on Balinese music in almost half a century" (17 May 2002). (For additional information on my professional activities and publications, go to www.worldmusic-bakan.com.) The main purpose of this blog is to provide links and other helpful resources related to World Music: Traditions and Transformations. Instructors may request comp review copies (book, CD set) at www.worldmusic-bakan.com.

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