Publications related to music and culture in Sri Lanka by PD Dr. Martina Claus-Bachmann

www.ethnomusicscape.de/pdf_files/PublicationsSriLanka.pdf

This list will be the point of origin for a planned publication, which will accompany the archived material I have collected from 1995 to now.

Restored: Drum and Dance Patterns from West Africa

http://www.ethnomusicscape.de/gambia.html - Since long time I planned to restore the webpages about African music with excerpts of my own field-impressions in The Gambia. The results are small didacticized webpages which can be used in learning-arrangements for students. Some pages extend the information to African cultures beyond West-Africa and reach to contemporary developments.

New Publication: Sacred Sound

Have a look at this new publication of the research-group MUREL / MUsic REsearch and eLearning: https://www.ulme-mini-verlag.de/bookshop/akademische_medienkombinationen.htm .

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Music and Culture

These two contributions of PD Dr. Martina Claus-Bachmann have been published finally and recently in the SAGE Encyclopedia of Music and Culture:

SAGE Reference - The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture:

presents key concepts in the study of music in its cultural context and provides an introduction to the discipline

SAGE Reference - Sri Lanka: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice

SAGE Reference - Buddhism

Uganda Refreshed

After changing the provider the Uganda-page has been uploaded again and is available from now:

http://www.ethnomusicscape.de/uganda/uganda.htm .

A virtual scenery is under construction.

The change of the provider will cause some missing pages in the near future due to a refreshment of the content. Step by step the pages will be uploaded again. Patience please.

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. 

Two New Publications

Ulme-mini-verlag has published two new pocket books with additional CD-ROM. One in the edu-/infotainment section with the title "Zerstöre niemals ein Vogelnest" (Never Destroy a Birdnest). It contains bilingual poems (German/Dari) of the Afghan poet Ahmad Zia Hadi: http://www.ulme-mini-verlag.de/bookshop/edutainment.html.

The other book has academic content and focuses on the topic "Music between Virtuality and Materiality".

Five articles written by Klaus Martius, James Isabirye and Martina Claus-Bachmann try to approach the topic from different angles, from the perspective of conservational work in museums, from the subculture Steampunk, from the music instrument tube fiddle in Uganda, from music in Afghanistan and experiments to create eLearning environment for the Indonesian Gamelan in the virtuality: http://www.ulme-mini-verlag.de/bookshop/akademische_medienkombinationen.html.

New Intercultural MediaCombination at ulme-mini-verlag Germany

10 expressive and critical poems of the Indonesian female author Dorothea Rosa Herliany have been published in a bilingual pocket version plus CD-ROM in the publishing company ulme-mini-verlag, specialised on multimedia and bilingual media combinations. This piece of "PocketArt" is presented here: http://www.kuveni.de/voicesfromtheedge/video_intro_herliany.mov

There is also an introduction of the Sundanese musical genre Kecapi Suling by the ethnographer, music researcher, author and publisher Martina Claus-Bachmann with links to publications on this topic.