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Operating since 2008, OTAT opened its adoption center in 2015 in the neighborhood of Bucktown. In 2018, Heather Owen, the executive director, attempted to open a new center at 3579 W. Dickens Ave, in Humboldt Park. The purpose of the new building was to provide an isolation center for dogs in need of treatment.
Ethnomusicology (from Greek ἔθνος ethnos ‘nation’ and μουσική mousike ‘music’) is the multidisciplinary study of music in its cultural context, investigating social, cognitive, biological, comparative, and other dimensions involved other than sound.
Stephen Blum (born March 4, 1942) is an American scholar and musician, whose research has primarily been in ethnomusicology.He has lent a multidisciplinary approach to the writing and publication of numerous articles discussing a wide range of musical topics and ideas.
Vol 2: (= Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology.). University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL u. a. 2010, ISBN 978-0-226-45694-2. Kubik, Gerhard, Africa and the Blues. University Press of Mississippi, Jackson MS 1999, ISBN 1-57806-146-6. Kubik, Gerhard, Jazz Transatlantic. University Press of Mississippi, Jackson MS 2017;
In 1997, he was the first ethnomusicologist to receive the Edward J. Dent Medal from the Royal Musical Association, [2] [5] and also received the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin in 2003, the Derek Allen Prize from the British Academy in 2007, and a Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching from the University of Chicago ...
Helen Heffron Roberts (1888–1985) was an American anthropologist and pioneer ethnomusicologist.Her work included the study of the origins and development of music among the Jamaican Maroons, and the Puebloan peoples of the American southwest.
Kay Kaufman Shelemay is the G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. [1] She received her PhD in Musicology from the University of Michigan and won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. [2]
Wong is also the president of the Board of Directors for the Alliance for California Traditional Arts. She has served on the advisory council for the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage since 2011. [2] Wong was nominated to be a member of the National Council on the Humanities by President Barack Obama in December 2015. [3]