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The British Forum for Ethnomusicology (BFE) is pleased to announce the opening of the 2025 Fieldwork Grants scheme. BFE Fieldwork Grants support doctoral candidates conducting ethnomusicological field research in the UK and abroad by contributing towards costs (e.g., for travel and subsistence). Two grants were awarded in 2024, together totalling £1800.
For more information on eligibility and how to apply, visit this page of the BFE website. We look forward to receiving your applications!
Huge congratulations to BFE member and former Committee member Dr Matthew Machin-Autenreith, who has been awarded the prestigious prize by Society for Ethnomusicology for the co-edited book Music and the Making of Portugal and Spain: Nationalism and Identity Politics in the Iberian Peninsula.
Co-edited by Matthew Machin-Autenrieth, Salwa el-Shawan Castelo Branco and Samuel Llano this book explores the relationship between national and regional identities in the Iberian Peninsula through the prism of musical practice across genres from the late 19th century to the present day.
The Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize Committee stated: ‘While the committee received a number of excellent submissions for this year’s review cycle, we found the scholarly rigor and innovative perspectives on nationalism and heritagization of your collection to be exceptional. All committee members agreed that Music and the Making of Portugal and Spain makes an invaluable contribution to music studies on the Iberian Peninsula, Ethnomusicology, and many other related fields of study’. We also have the following quote from Matthew:
I would like to say a big thank you to the prize committee, to the wonderful contributors who made the volume possible and to my incredible co-editors, Salwa and Samuel. I feel very honoured to have our work recognised in this way"
‘While the committee received a number of excellent submissions for this year’s review cycle, we found the scholarly rigor and innovative perspectives on nationalism and heritagization of your collection to be exceptional. All committee members agreed that Music and the Making of Portugal and Spain makes an invaluable contribution to music studies on the Iberian Peninsula, Ethnomusicology, and many other related fields of study’.
The book is fully open access via this link: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/114097.
We are delighted to announce that registration is now open for the 2024 British Forum for Ethnomusicology Autumn Conference which will be hosted online by the University of Southampton.
BFE Autumn Conference
Creative writing, music and ethnography
Friday 29th November - 9.45am - 4.45pm (GMT/UK time)
This event will take place online via Microsoft Teams and admission is free, but it is essential that all participants register to attend via Eventbrite.
The programme for this event can be found on the conference page of the BFE website.
Please do email Hettie Malcomson [she/they] – h.malcomson
soton.ac.uk
– if you have any queries.
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The BFE is proud to support the upcoming one-day conference '(In)Visible Publics: Performing (Non)belonging', hosted by the Department of Music at University College Dublin. This online conference focussing on "the entanglements between creative practices, performing (in)visibility, and reinforcing senses of (non-)belonging" is being convened by BFE member Dr Chrysi Kyratsou and will take place on Friday 13th September: registration details are available via this link.
For more details on the event and to view the conference programme and abstracts, please visit the UCD website. We hope to see many of you there!
