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Ethnomusicology Forum: Volume 18 Issue 2 is now available online at informaworld (http://www.informaworld.com). This new issue contains the following articles:

"MUSICAL TRADITIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST: REMINISCENCES OF A DISTANT PAST"

A CONFERENCE ON ANCIENT & MODERN MIDDLE EASTERN MUSICOLOGY

Leiden University, The Netherlands

Thursday 10 December 2009 to Saturday 12 December 2009

Dr. Simone Tarsitani, Leverhulme Trust Visiting Research Fellow from November 2008 to September 2009, has been appointed as Music Research Studio Officer at the Open University from 14 September 2009.

To whom it may concern,

I am writing to inform you about a new endeavour concerning research
in Ethnomusicology, brought about by former students of the University
of Limerick in Ireland. "Outreach Ethnomusicology" aims to create a
vibrant interactive public archive for Ethnomusicological research.

Some of you have already heard about DISMARC (DIScovering Music ARChives) - the EU co-funded project uniting Europe's music archives and presenting the results to a global audience.

By 2010, the EU intends to have a fully functioning new portal Europeana - the Europe's flagship digital library, supported by the EU's i2010 initiative. Its aim is to present Europe's digital cultural heritage to the world.

Just a reminder, if you are considering submitting an abstract for the British Forum for Ethnomusicology One-Day Conference "Taking Pleasure
Seriously: Theorising Pleasure and Music" (Sat 7 Nov 2009), that the deadline for abstracts is MONDAY 31 AUGUST.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The call for papers can be found here: http://www.bfeconference.org.uk/4.html
-- please send your abstracts to Dr Katherine Butler Brown at katherine.r.brown@kcl.ac.uk .

CONFERENCE WEBSITE

http://www.bfeconference.org.uk/4.html

REGISTRATION

17 October 2009
3.30 pm - 7.00 pm
Faculty of Music, West Road, Cambridge

14th International CHIME Conference

Musical Instruments Museum, Brussels

18-22 November 2008

Instituto de Etnomusicologia
Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança
(INET- MD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
Universidade de Aveiro

Musics and Knowledge in Transit

This year a new master programme starts at the l'Universite Paris Ouest Nanterre 2009/2010. Please see the attached information for more details (also in French).

1 EMAD - ETHNOMUSICOLOGY & THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF DANCE
A research and career oriented Masters programme
The EMAD Masters programme, jointly organized by the University Paris Ouest
Nanterre and the University Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand 2, treats music and
dance in a complementary and interdisciplinary fashion, both from an
anthropological standpoint and from the perspectives of musicology and choreology.