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Music Knowledge Conference I

In music-esque, My Work on April 8, 2010 at 5:31 pm

For those who missed my Oxford presentation at the British Forum for Ethnomusicology, I have uploaded my slides and talking notes from my Oxford presentation.

Today was the first day of the conference, and I was participating in the “Online Exchanges” panel, one of many concurrent panels that kick started the conference. My panel mates were Thomas Brett from New York’s Bard High School Early College, and Fiorella Montero-Diaz from the UK. Both presenters addressed issues that I have an interest it. The sharing of knowledge in the culture of electronic music, as well as issues of identity and power with indigenous cultures both highlighted the need for ethnomusicologists to engage in more collaborative work with specialists in other social science fields, information science being one of them.

The planetary session was absolutely wonderful. As each speaker as well as the chair shared their thoughts on “Ethnomusicology, Musical Knowledge & Theory”, I got progressively excited as each of them touched on topics that I could relate back to information science directly. This music knowledge conference may mark the beginning of my dedicated efforts (now that most of my course work is over) on my master’s thesis work on music knowledge.

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ASIS&T 2009: Diane Sonnenwald

In My Work on November 16, 2009 at 12:49 pm

This post was originally titled “ASIS&T 2009: Day 1″, but I think I just crashed that saturday night, after a full day at the symposium, and the rest of my time in Vancouver was a blur of trying to attend a few interesting sessions, take some time out to see the city and visit a local friend, and wake up every morning to enjoy the relaxing breakfast at the O’Canada House B&B. However, the next time I visit, I think I might try out the Listel Hotel, who decorates their rooms in collaboration with the anthropology department at UBC.

One of the things that I was really looking forward to at the conference, was meeting some of the big names in information science, albeit from afar. Instead of boring you with a play by play, I’m going to give you instead what I have come away from the conference with, in terms of further understanding and appreciation. The next few posts are the highlights of the individuals I met, beginning with Sonnenwald, who was a marvelous speaker. Also, now I can put a face to her articles when I come across them!

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Ethno what?

In My Work on October 8, 2009 at 11:33 pm

One of my most challenging and enjoyable class in my undergraduate year was a special seminar on ethnomusicology. The special seminar on 20th century music was fun in its own way, as was putting on my medieval hat to wrap my head around ancient europe’s landscape, but getting a taste of the type of work that the ethnomusicologists that I had come to admire engage in, was an eye opener.

Having just completed two out of the three classes devoted to learning ethnographic methods in Hartel’s course, I am getting the same feeling. Except this time, I’m not excited about studying a particular manifestation of music and culture, rather I am going to study the information seeking and use behaviour of musically inclined individuals. Well, ok, the scope is more specific than that, but I don’t want your preconceive notions of what a “musician” or a “musical” person is to affect the way you understand the rest of this post.

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