David Hughes (SOAS, University of London) is the recipient of the 2011 Japan Society Award, for "outstanding contributions to Anglo-Japanese relations and understanding" through his long-term "significant contribution to knowledge and understanding of varied Japanese musical traditions and practi
Martin Stokes was awarded the Merriam Prize by the Society for Ethnomusicology at its meeting in Philadelphia this year for “The Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy and Turkish Popular Music” (University of Chicago Press 2010).
Frances Wilkins, Visiting Lecturer in Ethnomusicology and Scottish Music at the University of Aberdeen, is currently undertaking a fieldwork trip to the James Bay area in (cold) Canada.
Sue Miller received her PhD in Cuban flute improvisation in charanga performance at the University of Leeds in early 2011. Her book proposal Cuban Flute Style: Interpretation and Improvisation has been accepted by Scarecrow Press (USA) and will be published in late 2012.
Subroto Roy, scholar on Indian Art Music, received an international fellowship from the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, Colombo, Sri Lanka. It has started on November 1, 2011 under its mandated project 'Diminishing Cultures of South Asia'.
r Anna Marie Stirr, currently a postdoctoral fellow for Asian Modernities and Traditions at the University of Leiden (Netherlands), and formerly a Mellon Career Development Fellow in Ethnomusicology at Oxford University, will start her new post as Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at the Unive
An inspiring conference, titled Beyond Borders: World-Music-Pedagogy, brought together leading scholars in the fields of ethnomusicology and music pedagogy at Rostock University of Music and Drama (Germany) from 11th to 13th November 2011.
Congratulations to Martin Stokes who has recently been appointed as the new King Edward Professor of Music at King's College London. He will join the Department of Music in September 2012.
This BFE Student Prize is offered for the best student paper presented at the BFE annual conference, 2011.
Dr Thomas Hilder has recently been appointed Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the Center for World Music, University of Hildesheim, Germany.
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