KunQu - Southern Opera In China

The page about the Chinese South Opera KunQu is online and all links are working:

https://www.ethnomusicscape.de/kunju.htm .
The material can be didacticized as a modular learning-arrangement with around 10 stations.
Tests at the end are available on the page:

EthnoMusicScape: China

The recent EthnoMusicScape version includes a page titled with "China"; a subtitle is "Chinese Musical Instruments" and leads to this page: http://www.ethnomusicscape.de/china_instrumente/chinamusins.htm . The presentations of Chinese traditional musical instruments are exerpts of a TV-production in Taiwan in the 90ies, which were handed over to me by a Chinese friend living in Germany and I made small video-sequences for each instrument and used the didacticized page with learning objective controls, info-texts and video- and audio-examples for seminars at the university. According to the permanent changes of hard- and software plus operating systems I had to adapt the formats and the codecs from time to time. After testing today, the examples should be available for most of the common browsers and can be used for educational purposes. The mindmap for China is by far not complete and the parts presented refer to my own experiences in China or in Chinese communities abroad.

Die Tarogato

Die Webpage von Peter Incze zum traditionellen ungarischen Musikinstrument Tarogato ist wieder online =>

http://www.kuveni.de/tarogatoraetsel.htm und zwar in einem kompakten Format, als HotPotato-Modul mit Info, Visualisierung und Kreuzworträtsel, also als Infotainment:
The webpage of Peter Incze concerning the traditional Hungarian instrument tarogato is online again as an infotainment-page:

Gambang Kromong - Betawi-Culture

Today I found time to renew the Gambang Kromong-page, based on field-research long time back. 
The page is the digitalzation of an article, which I had published with some varieties in two magazines:

1. Claus-Bachmann, Martina: "Gambang Kromong - chinesische Spuren in der Betawi-Kultur". In: Bröcker, Marianne (Hg.): Berichte aus dem ICTM-Nationalkomitee Deutschland V:99-113, Bamberg 1996.

2. Claus-Bachmann, Martina: KITA, Magazin der deutsch-indonesischen Gesellschaft, März 1996: 41-47.

Chinese Musical Instruments

The webpage Chinese Musical Instruments for EthnoMusicScape/MUREL has been processed completely and has been republished today with video-, audio-files, and tests. The access to the virtual environment can be found here:
http://www.ethnomusicscape.de/murel/second_life.htm .

MUREL and EthnoMusicScape as Virtual Nomads

New virtual space for MUREL and EthnoMusicScape:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nice%20Atoll/169/155/2502 - always actualized on this webpage: http://www.ethnomusicscape.de/murel/second_life.htm .

Music on the Island of Rodrigues

A new Web-Module for EthnoMusicScape is available:

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.

New Publication on Islamic influenced Music in Indonesia

The ethnomusicologist Dr. Uwe U. Paetzold has sent this interesting link concerning a new publication on music research in Indonesia:
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Music/WorldMusicEthnomusicology/?view=usa&sf=toc&ci=9780195385427.
Additionally Uwe has sent a link to a list of entries in the German Dance Archive/Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln giving an overview of the martial art Pencak Silat, which is in parts of Indonesia a sonic and kinetic form of art too; here is the download:
http://www.kuveni.de/2010_1023_DTK_Ueberblick_Sammlung.pdf.

Wayang PoTeHi - A Chinese Type of Puppet Theatre in Indonesia

Abb. 5: A Wayang PoTeHi stage in the night as a replacement for a missing TV at home

PD Dr. Martina Claus-Bachmann has decided to publish her article on Wayang PoTeHi or Po Te Hi online. The printed version is available with the title: "Portative dreifache Zuflucht im urbanen Alptraum: Wayang Potehi in Jakarta". In: Christ, Heidi (Hg.): Musik verbindet uns. Festschrift für Marianne Bröcker. Uffenheim 2006:65-76.
An English translation is in progress. The Abstract informs on the content: Der Artikel befasst sich mit musik- und allgemein kulturbezogener Identitätsstabilisierung in der Situation der Migration und generationenübergreifender Tradierung kulturellen Kapitals in der Zielgesellschaft durch portative Strategien. Als Beispiel aus eigener Feldforschung wird das sogenannte Wayang Potehi, ein chinesisches Puppenspiel in der indonesischen Hauptstadt Jakarta ethnographisch beobachtet, beschrieben, mit den gleichnamigen Formen in Malaysia und Taiwan verglichen sowie kulturwissenschaftlich interpretiert.

Update of the EthnoMusicScape-Page on Uganda

Please have a look at the newly created and updated page on music cultures in Uganda, created in cooperation with our member James Isabirye: http://www.kuveni.de/uganda/uganda.htm .

Basic article in German and English on the topic and term "Sound":
- German;
- English ...
(PowerPoint => IE required)