life in text and stereo sound
one of the pervasive themes of the FEL conference was the institutional ecology of language preservation and revitalization programs. from concerns that the work of dividing out the money allocated Continue Reading →
“We can have rooms full of dictionaries, but if no one speaks the language, what good will it have been.” Onowa McIvor made this statement about the dominance of documentation in the indigenous language field at the recent annual conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages. I attended the conference a couple weeks ago and will talk about it in my next few posts here. Continue Reading →
now that the semester is over, i’ve been reading some new titles in my discipline. one of the most interesting is by a scholar at brown, who straddles ethnomusicology and Continue Reading →
recently, a few of my friends and associates here have been a bit concerned. following the cd release concert and party for Ado Kaliting Pacidal, at which Ado called me Continue Reading →
music–particularly discourses about good versus bad musics–feature in many discussions of urban planning; perhaps this sonic connection to urban planning is more evident in the developing (or in the case Continue Reading →
