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The
Musiké Project
R
ESEARCH, RECOVERY, DOCUMENTATION, CONSERVATION
and dissemination of the ethnomusicological heritage.
Under
the Culture-Education-Research Programmes.
MUSICS,
RHYTHMS, STYLES, STRUCTURES, RITES,
TRANSCRIPTS,
interviews, pictures,
films, reflections, intuitions, thoughts and visions
on ethnic, root, world and traditional music are the focus of
this project.
Musiké's purpose is to research, recover, document and
conserve the world’s ethnomusicological heritage and to disseminate
it across a wide audience by means of concerts, books, CDs,
CD-ROMs, DVDs, periodicals
and web sites dedicated to the subject. In this way it is possible
to provide a contribution towards a better understanding of cultural
diversities and a greater tolerance between peoples, thanks to
a deeper understanding of musical traditions and in virtue of
the meta-historical values of human existence of which music is
among the principal bearers.
Musiké is not aimed solely at anthropologists,
ethnomusicologists and sociologists but also and primarily towards
musicians, connoisseurs, students and music lovers in general.
This is a wide spectrum project with an accurate and natural balance
between educational values and musical enjoyment.
Musiké
is structured along intercultural lines
and incorporates four areas of activity:
Concerts ~ Multimedia publications ~ Periodicals and Web sites.
Concert performances are held in concert halls and other appointed
locations, at festivals and at related international meetings.
Live video and digital recordings of the events, incorporating
interviews
with composers, musicians and performers are used for the production
of the multimedia series.
Concerts are envisaged whose proceeds will go to humanitarian
and charitable organisations and research.
The theme of the first cycle of concerts will be organological
and by means of a comparative methodology will contrast the different
instruments from within the same family
– each with its own scales, notation, structure, repertoire, spatial
and temporal conceptions, aesthetics, peculiarities and symbology
– and, by the same token, will disclose, bring to light and portray
the cultures lying behind their individual expression.
A comparison of instruments but also a collation of different
cultures.
The multimedia series is composed of printed works containing
a DVD.
The individual volumes cover authors, aspects and issues of ethic
and traditional music, but are not limited to those presented
in the concert events sector. The series enables a more detailed
examination of the themes and an in-depth analysis of the specifics,
similarities and differences between the individual musical worlds.
The periodical «Musiké» (ISSN 1824-7199)
is a four-monthly peer-reviewed international journal of ethnomusicological
studies.
Music
& Ritual, ed. Keith
Howard (1, I, 1).
Keith
Howard and Yarjung Kromchai ~ Tamu with Simon Mills, Ritual,
Music and Life in Tamu Shamanism
Carole Pegg, Tuning in to Place: Emergent Personhood in a
Multi-sensory Khakas Shamanic Ritual
Byron Dueck, 'Suddenly a Sense of Being a Community': Aboriginal
Square Dancing and the Experience of Collectivity
Diane Thram, Music and Healing: Sites of Power in the Rituals
of Xhosa healers/Diviners and the Zion Church in South Africa
Mark
Hobart, Damp Dreams: Some Problems with Dance in Bali
Margaret Kartomi, Aceh's Body Percussion; From Ritual Devotional
to Global Niveau
Cheng Yu, China's Xi'an Guye: Ritual and Performance
Contexts
Lam Ching-Wah, Recreating music and Dance in Confucian Rituals
Tony Langlois, Representations of Ritual in Moroccan Music
Video
Anne Caufriez, Female Poliphony and Ritual for Cereal Growth
in North Portugal
With CD. € 25 | £ 18 | $ 32
Sounds
of Identity. The Music of the Afro-Asians, ed. Shihan
De Silva Jayasuriya (2, I, 2).
Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy, From Sufi Shrines to
the World Stage: Sidi African Indian Music, Intervention and the
Quest for 'Authenticity'
Shihan De Silva Jayasuriya, Music and Memories: Oral Traditions
from and Indian Ocean Island
Aisha Bilkhair Khalifa, Spirit Possession and its Practices
in Dubai (UAE)
Leila Ingrams, African Connections in Yemeni Music
Gaila Sabar ~ Shlomit Kanari, Between the Local and the Global:
African Musicians in Israel
Ali Jihad Racy, The Life History of the Lyre: The Tanburah
of the Gulf Region
€
25 | £ 18 | $ 32
Networks & Islands. World Music & Dance Education,
ed. Ninja Kors (3, II, 1).
Ninja Kors, Islands, Networks and Webs: Current
Issues in Today's Debate
Huib Schippers, A Synergy of Contraditions: The Genesis of
a World Music & Dance Centre
Keith Howard, Performing Ethnomusicology: Exploring How Teaching
Performance Undermines the Ethnomusicologist Within University
Music Training
Patrica Campbell, Ethnomusicology, Education and World Music
Pedagogy: Across the Pond
Mark Slobin, The Wesleyan Way: World Music in an American
Academic Structure
Michelle Boss Barba ~ Amanda Soto, Enriching or Endangering:
Exploring the Positive and Negative Effects of Recontextualizing
Mariachi Music for Use in K-12 Schools
Lee Higgins, Participation, the Workshop, and the Welcome
Laurien Saraber, Negotiating Dutch Dance: The Changing Landscape
of Dance in The Netherlands
€
25 | £ 18 | $ 32
The
journal is distributed worldwide through libraries, bookshops,
specialist music shops, and by subsciption to individual and academic
institutions, ethnomusicological and anthropological archives,
or can be
from us.
The on-line version (ISSN 1824-7180) will be available soon at
the Musiké
web site, together with all data in the series subject to amendment
(biographies, bibliographies, discographies, etc.) regularly updated.

INTERNATIONAL
ADVISORY BOARD
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Joep
Bor
Associated Professor of World Music; Director,
Codarts Research,
Rotterdam Conservatory of Music, The Netherlands.
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Kudsi
Erguner
Composer,
musician, Paris, France.
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Scheherazade
Q. Hassan
Associate research fellow, Laboratory
of Ethnomusicology. Musée
de l'Homme/CNRS; Chair, «Study group for the Music of the
Arab world», ICTM.
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Keith
Howard
Director, AHRC Research Centre for Cross-Cultural
Music and Dance; Reader, Dept. of Music at the School of Oriental
and African Studies (SOAS),
University of London, United Kingdom.
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Nazir
A. Jairazbhoy
Professor Emeritus, Ethnomusicology Department,
UCLA,
Los Angeles, USA.
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Bruno
Nettl
Professor Emeritus of Music and Anthropology, School
of Music, University of Illinois, USA.
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