SALSA members presenting at BFE 2020 [UPDATE 3-20-20: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the BFE Conference has been postponed for 2021] SALSA Members Matthias Lewy, Bernd Brabec de Mori and Juan Castrillón will be presenting their work at the British Forum of Ethnomusicology (BFE) 2020 In this occasion,...
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Listening to Brian Moser and Donald Tayler During the conference of the Society for Ethnomusicology celebrated in Bloomington at Indiana University in November 2019, I was introduced to Andrea Zarza, the curator of the World and Traditional Music of the British Library. Our point of connection...
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PANEL 02: Creating, Transforming, Transmitting… - Creative Processes in Myth, Ritual and the Everyday in Lowland South America SALSA XII Sesquiannual Conference - Vienna, 2019 Organizers: Ernst Halbmayer, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany Anne Goletz, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany Chairs: Ernst Halbmayer, Anne Goletz This panel focuses on creative processes and the semantics fields...
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~KIRAÑIA (Long Flutes) Juan Castrillón, University of Pennsylvania, 2019 ~KIRAÑIA (Long Flutes) dramatizes how a pair of long flutes sounds like, how a Cubeo Emi-Hehenewa indigenous community of Northwestern Amazon makes it, and how community members make sense of it. The film came out of my ethnographic fieldwork...
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People of the Center Since 2004 the DoBeS (Dokumentation Bedrohter Sprachen) program supports the project “Documenting the languages of the People of the Center”, which was housed from 2004-2007 at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and from 2007-2009 at the Universität Regensburg. The partner organization in Peru is...
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Upper Xingú We gather here three DoBeS projects working on three genetically unrelated languages, belonging to the cultural system of the Upper Xingú area: Kuikuru (Carib), Trumai (isolate), and Aweti (Tupi). The aims of the co-operation among these DoBeS Projects are the organization of comparable corpora...
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