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

New Arrangement Of EthnoMusicScape

The MUREL-project ethnomusicscape is overhauled completely:
http://www.ethnomusicscape.de . The old versions of some webpages did not work anymore because of new hard- and software technologies. In former decades an option has been for web-designers to use PowerPoint-presentations and change them to webpages, but these versions are not valid anymore, so that all the content has to be reorganized, which is a hard and exhausting work, cause ethnomusicscape uses files for all senses, text-, audi-, video-files and pictures of all formats.
But I want to let you know, that nothing is forgotten and most of the pages will reappear in the next time. THere will be an actualized list of finished and adapted projects at:
http://www.ethnomusicscape.de/map.htm .

Die E-Gitarre als eLearning-Modul

This student-page about the e-guitar is online again and a nice example for an ideal info- or edutainment-module (German language).

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:

CyberArt and CyberCulture

In the last months I prepared 11 web-pages as a kind of lecture concerning the topics cyber-art and cyber-cultures. I have been asked for a demonstration at a university in Sri Lanka. According to my 10 years of experience as an artist, curator and gallery owner in the virtual environment of Second Life and OS I concluded here my experiences and considerations on the topic and enhanced the presentation with examples and self-made movies to demonstrate practically, what tools the virtual worlds offer for the purpose to create art. An analysis concerning the role of music in cyber-culture will follow: 
http://www.ethnomusicscape.de/cyber/CyberArt.htm .

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.

Music and Culture in Sri Lanka

http://www.ethnomusicscape.de/srilanka/page3.htm .

Some of the elder modules have been updated so far, links have been renewed, but the main work has to be done in the next months and it will become an ambitious work. All the multimedia-files concerning the dance- and drum-culture of Sri Lanka have to be changes from the CD-ROM-version to a web-version. Already existing web-modules will get a kind of corporate design, the missing parts in the mindmap will be filled step by step: