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Here is a message from one of our friends at the University of Alberta, Dr. Mary Ingraham, the Director of the Sound Studies Initiative about upcoming events at the end of this month at their university:
The Sound Studies Initiative at the University of Alberta is pleased to invite you to two events next week. Read on for details!
1. Distinguished Visitor: Dr. Svanibor Pettan
When: Tuesday, March 28th, 2017 from 2:30 – 4:00 p.m.
Where: Sound Studies Initiative, 3-47 Old Arts Building, UAlberta North Campus
Cost: Free/All Welcome
This Tuesday, we welcome renowned ethnomusicologist Dr. Svanibor Pettan for a lecture on Romani musicians. Dr. Pettan’s visit is part of the Global Musics – Local Connections applied ethnomusicology project. This lecture is co-presented by the Wirth Institute, the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology (CCE), and the Sound Studies Initiative at the University of Alberta.
This talk is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
2. @ Noon Documentary Screening: “A Tribute to the Music of the Southern Appalachian Mountains”
When: Wednesday, March 29th, 2017 from 12 – 1:00 p.m.
Where: Sound Studies Initiative, 3-47 Old Arts Building, UAlberta North Campus
Cost: Free/All Welcome
Join us Wednesday @ Noon for a three-part tribute to the rich musical and cultural traditions of rural Appalachia. We will be screening two short films, along with a live cameo performance by Edmonton’s premiere (and possibly only) old-time stringband, The Strawflowers.
The feature presentation is a documentary by John Cohen – “Roscoe Holcomb from Daisy, Kentucky” (2010). During a sojourn to eastern Kentucky in 1959 in search of local musicians, Cohen met Roscoe Holcomb (1911-81). Impressed by his powerful and unique singing and playing style, Cohen was instrumental in introducing Holcomb to a broader audience in North America and beyond. Cohen’s evocative film reveals a man whose music was shaped by the harsh demands of life in a region experiencing difficult times. In an effort to place Holcomb’s playing and singing within that cultural context, Cohen provides us with an unvarnished glimpse of life in coal country during the early 1960s, together with sampling of music and dance forms from the region.
We will also be screening a short film by Craig Evans on the celebrated annual Appalachian Stringband Festival, AKA ‘Clifftop’.
Roscoe Holcomb was a Folkways recording artist, as is John Cohen, who was a founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers. Craig Evans is an independent filmmaker. His DVD series on banjo builders is now part of the Smithsonian Folkways catalogue.
All are welcome, and light refreshments will be served. Popcorn will be provided courtesy of the Faculty of Law.
Have a wonderful week,
MARY INGRAHAM, PhD
DIRECTOR, Sound Studies Initiative
PROFESSOR OF MUSIC
DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC
Sound Studies Initiative
3-47 Arts Building
University of Alberta
Edmonton AB T6G 2E6
They’ve changed their name! Building on previous endeavours under the banner of folkwaysAlive!, they are blending their firm commitment to the stewardship of the Moses and Frances Asch Collection of Folkways Records with new initiatives based broadly in sound studies.
Effective 1 January 2017, their email address is: soundstudies@ualberta.ca and their web address is: http
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Watch this space for more details to come! This exciting festival includes film showcases plus dance & music workshops, to be held in multiple locations around Unama'ki: Sydney, Chéticamp, Glace Bay, Membertou Heritage Park, on campus and off — and every event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, so come and join in! We are honoured to feature dub poet/performer/historian Dr. Afua Cooper and Afropop/jazz/rhumba musician Mark Lenini Parselelo in this colourful celebration. For more information, or to register for the Teacher Professional Development Workshops, please e-mail sound_communities@cbu.ca or call 902-563-1696.
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1) ICTM DIALOGUES Digital Publication ‘DIALOGUES: Towards Decolonizing Music and Dance Studies’ https://ictmdialogues.org/
2) International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) http://ictmusic.org
3) The Centre for Sound Communities (CSC) https://soundcommunities.org
4) Canadian Society for Traditional Music (CSTM) https://cstm-sctm.ca
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ICTM PRIZE-WINNERS! Congratulations to our esteemed research collaborators & co-authors* at Membertou First Nation on being awarded the 2021 ICTM Article Prize ~ announced last Saturday at the General Assembly of the International Council for Traditional Music.
The first session of this course took place Thursday, July 22 ~ inspiring and uplifting. If you’d like to join in the second / final session taking place next Thursday, July 29 at 6:30 p.m. Atlantic Time, register here. We hope you’ll join us!
The Centre for Sound Communities congratulates Dr. Sheila Christie on her recent appointment as Chair of the Department of Literature, Folklore and The Arts, and we also thank her for her many contributions to the CSC as she leaves the post of Associate Director. Dr. Christie has exerted truly magnanimous effort in support of faculty and student researchers. She operates on the basis of scholarship and a teaching practice based on care; her thoughtful, dedicated service to the CSC, CBU and wider communities is greatly appreciated by many, as is her commitment and drive, and her impressive ability to get things done. We wish her well in her next chapter!
Join the Summer Celebration! Zoom link is here!
Welcome, Dr. Shauna MacDonald, and thank you, Dr. Sheila Christie! Watch this space for word on a special virtual event coming July 15 to which all are invited!
Registration now open for the Summer Institute 2021 Cantoring Course!
Both sessions of this course take place at 6:30 p.m. Atlantic time.
Session 1 - July 22: Register here
Session 2 - July 29: Register here
Check out the CSC YouTube Channel here to watch a recording of the panel from our June 10 event: Disrupting the Legacies of Colonialism and White Supremacy in Music Schools ~ with thanks to all the participants and registrants in this stellar workshop, as well as to Dr. Dylan Robinson and Dr. Jeremy Strachan for organizing this inaugural DIALOGUES event. [In the coming weeks, we will re-post the video with transcribed text in the hopes of making this ~ and future DIALOGUES events ~ as accessible as possible. Be sure to visit our FB page for news of upcoming events!]
*Coming this Fall 2021!*
Stay tuned for a series of Anti-Racist Pedagogies workshops happening this fall, which will feature a stellar lineup of international scholars and practitioners! For details and registration links, keep checking in on the CSC Facebook page for updates.
New DIALOGUES project workshop to be presented June 10, 2021! Find out more here!
On Friday, May 14, 2021, the Canadian Studies Center, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle presented ‘Singing Sunjata’s Story in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia: A Mali-Canada Musical Collaboration’. The event featured CSC Director Dr. Marcia Ostashewski and research colleague, culture-bearer and internationally renowned musician Lassana Diabaté in conversation and concert. A link to the event video will be released later in May, but for further information about the project, please refer to the Projects menu selection on this website, or find out more on the Bala website: https://balafondiabate.ca/
