The Musiké Project

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The Musiké Project

R ESEARCH, RECOVERY, DOCUMENTATION, CONSERVATION
and dissemination of the ethnomusicological heritage.

Under the Culture-Education-Research Programmes.

Contribution to achieving MDG 2 – target 3, and MDG 8 – targets 16, 18.

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.

I N T E R N A T I O N A L A D V I S O R Y B O A R D

Laurent Aubert Director, Ateliers d’Ethnomusicologie; Curator, Dept. of Ethnomusicology, Musée d’ethnographie, Geneva, Switzerland.
Joep Bor Professor of Extra European Performing Arts Studies, Leiden University (NL); and Director, Codarts Research, Rotterdam Conservatory of Music, The Netherlands.
Kudsi Erguner Composer, musician, Paris, France.
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.
Keith Howard Director, AHRC Research Centre for Cross-Cultural Music and Dance; Professor, Dept. of Music at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, United Kingdom.
Nazir A. Jairazbhoy Professor Emeritus, Ethnomusicology Department, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA.
James Kippen Head, Dept. of Ethnomusicology, University of Toronto, Canada.
Bruno Nettl Professor Emeritus of Music and Anthropology, School of Music, University of Illinois, USA.
Tran Quang Hai Dept. of Ethnomusicology, Musée de l’Homme, Paris, France.

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. International Journal of Ethnomusicological Studies
(ISSN 1824-7199) is a four-monthly peer-reviewed journal [210 x150mm, pp. 160/220].

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[1, I, 1] ~ Music & Ritual, ed. Keith Howard.

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

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[2, I, 2] ~ Sounds of Identity. The Music of the Afro-Asians, ed. Shihan De Silva Jayasuriya.

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

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[3, II, 1] ~ Networks & Islands. World Music & Dance Education, ed. Ninja Kors.

Ninja Kors, Islands, Networks and Webs: Current Issues in Today's Debate
Huib Schippers, A Synergy of Contradictions: 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

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[4, II, 2] ~ Analysing East Asian Music. Patterns of Rhythm and Melody, ed. Simon MIlls.

Jane Alaszewska, Two Different Beats to a Single Drum: An Analysis of Old and New Stiles of Hachijo-Daiko
Stephen Jones, Living Early Composition: An Apppreciationj of Chinese Shawn Melody
Eleni Kallimopoulou ~ Federico Spinetti, An Analysis of the Uyghur on Ikki Muqam: Aspects of Melody and Form in the Segha Suite
Simon Mills, Playful Patterns of Freedom: Hand Gong Performance in Korean Shaman Ritual
With DVD ~ € 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 here together with all data in the series subject to amendment (biographies, bibliographies, discographies, etc.) regularly updated.