Tag: ethnomusicology

Decolonising Practice: A Case Study at Westminster Music Library

The following is a guest post from Lucy Currid, postgraduate ethnomusicology student, University of Manchester: When I started my Master’s in Ethnomusicology at the University of Manchester last autumn, I had not anticipated that my studies would bring me into the heart of London, but I am very grateful that they did. Through the Placement…

Tag: ethnomusicology

ASW 2015: Around the world in 4,000 tapes

Jane Fanshawe got the ASW off to a thrilling and foot-tapping start with a talk on the life and work of her husband, David – ethnomusicologist, composer, and champion of world music. Now housed in a converted stable-block among the Malvern Hills, Jane has an enormous collection of reel-to-reel tapes recorded by David on his…