For our Regular Podacst series, we encourage you to submit podcasts on any ethnomusicological topic that is relevant to our field. Ranging from portraying musicians, musical instruments, rituals and celebrations, to debates on cultural hegemony, appropriation and exoticisation of musics, to questions related to sonic spaces, soundscapes, healing processes and social well-being – there are numerous stories to be told.

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Our latest Regular Podcast is from Sara Rohr, PhD candidate at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Sara's podcast focusses on the Katajjaq throat singing tradition practiced by Inuit communities in Canada: 

Sara Valentina Rohr is an ethnomusicologist and historian based in Switzerland. She holds a master’s degree in World Arts and Music and history. Now, she is a PhD student in Cultural Anthropology of Music at the University of Bern, funded by a scholarship from the Swiss National Foundation. In her PhD project, she engages with the Archives Sonores Inuit, an Inuit song archive recorded in 1938 and 1939 by Swiss ethnographer Jean Gabus, which is now part of the permanent collection of the Musée d’Ethnographie de Neuchâtel. Furthermore, she has been newly elected to the board of the Swiss Society for Ethnomusicology. In her free time, she likes to yodel and play the piano.

This Regular Podcast comes from Portugal-based drummer and ethnomusicologist Lucas Wink, and is entitled 'On the streets with Bombos ensembles: listening to a traditional percussive practice in northern Portugal':

Lucas Wink is a drummer and ethnomusicologist based in Portugal. He holds a Bachelor degree in Music and a Masters degree in Music (Musicology). Currently he is a PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology at the University of Aveiro, where he conducts a research on Bombos funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) of Portugal. He is a researcher at the Institute of Ethnomusicology – Center for Studies in Music and Dance (INET-md) working in the research project "EcoMusic – Sustainable Practices: a study of the post-folklorism in Portugal in the 21st century" (http://ecomusic.web.ua.pt). He also regularly plays the drums for Orquestra Bamba Social, a Luso-Brazilian ensemble mixing samba, jazz, rock and hip-hop based in Porto.

This Regular Podcast comes from multilingual singer, teacher and researcher Romy Martinez: Romy's podcast is entitled 'Songs by the Riverbanks':

Romy Martinez is a multilingual singer, teacher and researcher with a musical career and academic background spread between Paraguay (country of birth), Brazil and Argentina. She has released interdisciplinary and decolonial research about a common bordering musicality. This work is connected to award winning albums in collaboration with the Purahéi Trio of which she is the founder. Romy holds a degree in Music Education from UDESC and a master’s degree in communication and culture, with emphasis on Latin American Studies from PROLAM/USP, both obtained in Brazil. She also specialised in Argentinian music performance (tango and folklore) at the Manuel de Falla Conservatory in Buenos Aires and since 2018, she has been a doctoral researcher in the Music Department at Royal Holloway University of London.