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The Society for Ethnomusicology is, with the International Council for Traditional Music and the British Forum for Ethnomusicology, one of three major international associations for ethnomusicology. Its mission is "to promote the research, study, and performance of music in all historical periods and cultural contexts."
She served as Chairperson of the International Council for Traditional Music (UK Branch) and was a founding co-editor of its journal, the 'British Journal of Ethnomusicology', now 'Ethnomusicology Forum'. In reciprocity for help during fieldwork in Mongolia and the Altai-Sayan region, she formed the agency Inner Asian Music, toured musicians ...
Russell became Director of the Elphinstone Institute at the University of Aberdeen in 1999, a post he held until retirement in 2014. [6]During Russell's time as Director of the Institute, he convened conferences for the British Forum for Ethnomusicology in Aberdeen in 2004 and 2008 and the 27th meeting of the European Seminar in Ethnomusicology (ESEM) in September 2011.
He, along with David P. McAllester, Alan Merriam, Willard Rhodes und Charles Seeger, founded the Society for Ethnomusicology. [4] After a serious illness in 1950, he had to give up work in 1958, retired in 1962, and lived for the next twenty years in a sanatorium.
An ethnomusicologist studies music in its cultural and social contexts (see ethnomusicology). A systematic musicologist asks general questions about music from the perspective of relevant disciplines (psychology, sociology, acoustics, philosophy, physiology, computer science) (see systematic musicology). Systematic musicologists often identify ...
Rimmer was born in the Battersea district of London, to Marion (nee Layzell), a bookkeeper, and Edmund Rimmer, a musician, and grew up in Kensington. [1] At age 12, she gained a scholarship to the Royal College of Music where she later studied piano with Cyril Smith and won the Hopkinson Gold Medal, graduating in 1939.
He was head of the Department of Music at SOAS from 1999 to 2002, and since 2005 has been Professor Musicology at the institution. He was also co-editor of the British Journal of Ethnomusicology from 1992 to 1997. [1] [2] [3] [4]
In the field of ethnomusicology, Blacking is known for his early and energetic advocacy of an anthropological perspective in the study of music. He spent most of his later academic career at Queen's University Belfast , in Northern Ireland , where he was a professor of social anthropology from 1970 until his death in 1990.