From Chris Smith: site visits in Fall 2007

Friends:

I know most of you through the SEM Special Interest Group: Europe, and am using our blog to make you aware of an Irish culture/music resource available to your campus in the Fall 2007 semester. I’m an SEM member, having presented, mostly recently on Anthony McCann's pedagogy panel, at several meetings, and authored a number of articles on the topic (most recently, in the lead article of New Hibernia Review 10/4 (Winter 2006), and a book. I teach musicology, ethnomusicology, and Irish studies at Texas Tech University in Lubbock TX. I’m a 30-year veteran of Irish traditional music performance, broadcasting, teaching, and recording, having concertized (on bouzouki, banjo, button accordion, and voice) across North America, Ireland, and Europe.

I’m also on a research-and-development sabbatical Aug 30-Dec 15 2007, and will be traveling extensively for archival work and professional engagements throughout that period. I would love to visit your campus, perhaps as part of a concert and/or lecture series, to share music and folklore, and thoughts on each, with your local community: specialists, generalists, students, colleagues, and members of the general public.

You can find more information on these possibilities at http://webpages.acs.ttu.edu/chrissmi/education/ . Also, Dick Bizot, founding Director of Irish Studies at the University of North Florida (rbizot@unf.edu) , can comment on the range of events I’ve been able to offer at his campus, and has kindly agreed to do so. Or, feel free to contact me.

Chris Smith

To contact me at my university office:

(p) 806.742-2270 x249

(f) 806.742-2294

(e) christopher.smith@ttu.edu

(W) http://webpages.acs.ttu.edu/chrissmi/educational_programs.html

(W) http://coyotebanjo.com

Chris Smith here

Hello all:

Chris Smith: professor of musicology/ethnomusicology and director of the Vernacular Music Center at Texas Tech. Working n a variety of areas, but, for ethno: principally traditional Irish music and culture and in Mississippi Delta blues. Faculty website at http://webpages.acs.ttu.edu/chrissmi/, or see also the link to my Home Page in the left margin of this page. If you would like your own Home Page link similarly added, you can do it yourself: go to "Dashboard," click on this group, click on "Template," and follow instructions for "Add a Link."

Looking forward to cyber-conversation and -collaboration.

all the best,

cjs

intro

Hi, Peggy Duesenberry here. My main interest is in Scottish music, and I teach in a postgraduate research programme at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (see http://www.rsamd.ac.uk/research/index.htm).
My main research areas are in fiddle music and in mass media interactions with traditional music.
I have a hard time making to SEM meetings these days, so I'm looking forward to online interaction.

Best to all,
Peggy

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Dr Peggy Duesenberry
Lecturer in Research, Scottish Music
RSAMD
100 Renfrew Street
Glasgow G2 3DB
Scotland
tel. +44 141 270 8321
e-mail p.duesenberry@rsamd.ac.uk
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Intros

hi, Judith Cohen here. I work in several European and European related areas, as a researcher and as a performer:
- Sephardic traditions
- Spain, Portugal
- Crypto-Jews ("Marranos") in Spain and Portugal
- Balkans
- Yiddish
- pan-European balladry (including areas above, also France, UK, others)

Looking forward to discussions, Judith
www.yorku.ca/judithc

Brana's intro (bumped from "comments")

Brana said...

Hello,

My name is Brana Mijatovic and I'm the current chair for the Society for Ethnomusicology's Special Interest Group for European Music.
My interests, very briefly, are music genres of the Balkans, music and politics,and music and globalization. I am teaching courses on the above topics at the Christopher Newport University in Virginia.

Getting the ball rolling with introductions

I might suggest that newly-joining members, once they have been added as a result of "accepting" the automated invitation, begin by posting a brief professional bio, list of interests, and personal/individual goals for this online community. Further suggestion: when you do post that bio, consider adding a link (login to http://beta.blogger.com with your username and password, click on "Dashboard - Settings - Template - Links/Edit" and follow instructions). This could lead readers to your institutional faculty or research home page, and in turn should further facilitate conversation and sharing of interests.

Easy blog-reading using RSS aggregators

It is possible to read this blog using conventional WWW viewing techniques: i.e., by typing the URL into your browser's address window manually each time you wish to visit.

However, you can also use an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) aggregator, which will automatically notify you each time when there is a new post, or at selected intervals. This makes the blog function with the immediacy and automation of LISTSERV and email lists: new materials are sent to your RSS account, which in turn can be set to send those notifications directly to your selected email. Most websites (and all blogs) now publish RSS feeds.

RSS aggregators are a good way to keep track of large numbers of blogs and websites without having to manually visit them individually. Moreover, the recommended aggregator (bloglines) also permits "clipping" (online user-selected archiving) of articles you are interested in filing.

If you are interested to sign up for a (free) bloglines RSS aggregator account, click on the indicated Link in the left-margin of this page.

chris