Here is a link to the resource, "Digital Dynamics Across Cultures", which is an interactive website that focuses on the cultural protocols of the Warumungu people from Central Australia. One most interesting things about this website is that the project members maintain a sophisticated method for partially or completely blocking access to certain c...

Ask the question " What Do Musicologists Do All Day?" and you'll get some very humorous answers! But here's an interesting bit of research which has attempted to get a serious answer! https://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~wieri103/presentations/WDMDAD-IAML-IMS.pdf I filled out this survey some months ago, and yesterday (22nd June) it was jus...

You might remember that last year a number of us on Outreach filled in a survey about the levels of vitality of a music genre, as part of a post-doctoral research project by Dr Catherine Grant. Dr Grant has shared with us the fruits of this work with a project website entitled "Music Vitality and Endangerment", that is now live at www.musicendange...

Unusual Settings of Tunes In the Henebry-O'Neill Wax Cylinder Collection A couple of weeks back, I posted an announcement here regarding the Henebry-O'Neill wax cylinder recordings and the collection of tunes that was added to the UCC music website (O'Neill Henebry Wax Cylinders Online). Since then, I have been working with several other musician-...

Seasons greetings to all. Listen to some holiday music from around the world on Folkways... "Holiday music traditions such as Christmas, Hannukah, and Kwanzaa feature an incredibly diverse range of musical accompaniment. The Holiday Music Map from Smithsonian Folkways includes 56 songs from 24 nations. Listen to them all in a row, or tak...

The O'Neill/Henebry wax cylinders are digitised, and they are online!  Launched this week at the Boole Library, UCC, the Henebry/O'Neill wax cylinder collection has been digitised and transferred to the digital format. I was present to help out with the display on bigscreen TV and walk through of the material, which I have to say is presented...

A great way to start research on soundsystems, or even to know where the music is concentrated.. From the "Planet of Soundsystems" website: "the first worldwide Map of Original Soundsystems. Still work in progress..."Click here to view this on the mapsengine website...https://mapsengine.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=z-FHHwDvg_C0.kC5U0c6yro5Q

A collection books which have been recently sent over to us from the Combined Academic Publishers. Certainly a wide variety of topics covered! A Feminist EthnomusicologyWritings on Music and GenderEllen KoskoffForeword by Suzanne Cusick   "One of the clearest overviews of the history of feminist and gender studies—in general and in t...