#SummerSchool

Any #RomaniStudies #Ethnomusicology or #MusicHeritage students here?

How about joining us for “Romani Music between Heritage and Politics,” the 8th Music as Heritage CEU Summer University (Budapest, 29 June–7 July 2026)?

The course explores artistic, social, and political dimensions of Romani culture with international faculty. Scholarships available.

🗓 Deadline: 1 March 2026

https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/courses/2026/romani-music-between-heritage-and-politics

#SummerSchool

Any #RomaniStudies #Ethnomusicology or #MusicHeritage students here?

How about joining us for “Romani Music between Heritage and Politics,” the 8th Music as Heritage CEU Summer University (Budapest, 29 June–7 July 2026)?

The course explores artistic, social, and political dimensions of Romani culture with international faculty. Scholarships available.

🗓 Deadline: 1 March 2026

https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/courses/2026/romani-music-between-heritage-and-politics

Just because… This is Paul Pena with Kargyraa Moan. Paul was a blind bluesman and Morna singer. He learnt about #ThroatSinging from AM radio, and taught himself. He went to Tuva in 1995. That trip was filmed for the documentary Genghis blues.
Kargyraa is a style in which the false vocal folds are activated, which vibrate at half the speed of the vocal cords, producing an octave drop and audible harmonics. In this one I think he hits G♯2.
#Music #Ethnomusicology #Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9SgibDYYVU

#CFP

Echoes of Traditional Music in Central Eastern Europe in Times of War and Peace

A special issue of the Czech Ethnological Journal „Český lid“ (in English) focusing on #ethnomusicology:

Exploring how traditional music and dance shape identities, politics, and heritage in Slavic-speaking countries, in wartime and peacetime contexts.

Deadline: 31/12/2025

https://ceskylid.avcr.cz/en/news/call-for-papers-echoes-of-traditional-music-in-central-eastern-europe-in-times-of-war-and-peace

#MusicResearch #Heritage #SoundStudies #Musicology #Ethnology

Introducing the octopus piano played by (well obviously) an octopus, though it took a while…
This was a rather enjoyable video on a weird but oddly wonderful experimental musical project. And of course, I'm sitting here thinking about #ethnomusicology and various pedagogies around the world now. It's really not that far off from how very young children learn and put things together, though usually not involving cross-species interaction. #Music #Piano #Octopus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcWnQ7fYzwI

Introducing the octopus piano played by (well obviously) an octopus, though it took a while…
This was a rather enjoyable video on a weird but oddly wonderful experimental musical project. And of course, I'm sitting here thinking about #ethnomusicology and various pedagogies around the world now. It's really not that far off from how very young children learn and put things together, though usually not involving cross-species interaction. #Music #Piano #Octopus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcWnQ7fYzwI

On 13–14th of February 2025, I organised a #Hackathon on #RomaniChords that explored various methodological avenues for my #MSCA project’s data acquisition.

Here’s a short thread summarising what we dealt with and achieved during these days.

CCying everyone interested in #Ethnomusicology, #Musicology, #ComputationalMusicology, #MusicScience, #RomaniStudies, #RomaniMusic and alike.

Let’s jump right into it!

[Note: See alt text for more info about the pictures attached to this thread]

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