Musical Forms of Expression in the Maori Culture on EthnoMusicScape

Using the holidays for this edition of Maori Music Culture, I hope to provide some facts and methods for lectures:
http://www.ethnomusicscape.de/maori/maori.htm .
A Happy New Year 2017 and: The Show Must Go On!

Music on the Island of Rodrigues

A new Web-Module for EthnoMusicScape is available:

Reunion and its Music

is the next provided Webpage by EthnoMusicScape and refers especially to the Maloya:

New Entry-Page for EthnoMusicScape

The entry-page for ethnomusicscape has been simplified and revised:

We hope it will provide a better orientation and a faster access to the area of interest.

September and October Work on MUREL

The islands of the Seychelles: http://www.ethnomusicscape.de/seychellen/seychellen.htm  

and of Mauritius: http://www.ethnomusicscape.de/mauritius-Dateien/mauritius.htm

are the next revised ethnomusicological modules of the online-platform EthnoMusicScape and in the virtual world of Second Life: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Space%204%20Art/112/102/22.

MUREL is back!

After a long sleep the MUREL-Blog will be reactivated from now. 
The main intention is to comment the new concept of the project EthnoMusicScape. This concept has the focus to extend the documentation of music styles and cultures not only on web-pages but also in a 3D-environment of a virtual reality like Second Life or OS. All webpages of EthnoMusicScape will be re-processed in the next time and get a link to an immersive interactive virtual scenery.
The first finished ones are:

- Music in Afghanistan and

- Music of the Maldives:

The virtual scenery can be visited here:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Space%204%20Art/122/93/22 .
With clicking on a rezzer-box, the scenery will appear and can be explored. Links guide the visitor back to the webpage for further information.
Of course requires a participation in a virtual world an account and the creation of an avatar as well as the download and installation of a viewer-software.