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MMaP Research Centre @mmap.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The World Cup may be over, but the research continues! Read about #MUNEthnomusicology assistant professor Dr. Luis Achondo's work on the intersection between sound and soccer in the MUN Gazette. gazette.mun.ca/research/sou...

MMaP Research Centre @mmap.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Congratulations to MA student (Ethnomusicology) Linus Glaesemer on being co-awarded the 2025 Student Paper Prize from the @Canadian Society for Traditional Music for his paper "Quiet Labor: Beatmakers, Vernacular Theory, and the Politics of Inaudibility,” presented at the 2025 Virtual Conference!

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MMaP Research Centre @mmap.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Available Now on the MMaP YouTube Channel! Dr. Philip Ewell's Music and Culture Lecture "Blacksplaining Classical Music in the Twenty-First Century."

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Music & Culture Lecture Series: Philip Ewell

MMaP Research Centre @mmap.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Congratulations to #MUNEthnomusicology student Andrina Cockerham of her presentation "Sounding Climate Care: Music, Protest, and Belonging in St. John's Climate Movements" at the 2026 Equity, Diversity, inclusion, and Anti-Racism Conference Memorial University!

MMaP Research Centre @mmap.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Now available: Soundscapes from the Archives: Collecting for the Future! Enjoy this celebration of the Memorial University Folklore and Language Archive. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpT6...

MMaP Research Centre @mmap.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

 Check out the new website Axesfortheallies.ca! This bilingual website features in-depth discussions of the contributions made by Newfoundland and Labradorian wood workers during wartime. Featuring songs, stories, archival materials, timelines and learning materials for educational use.

MMaP Research Centre @mmap.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

If you're in St. John's Newfoundland, join us April 25 at 7:30 pm for an evening of traditional folk music and stories that go beyond the standard repertoire!

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MMaP Research Centre @mmap.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Join us for Dr. Philip Ewell's Music and Culture lecture, "Blacksplaining Classical Music in the Twenty-First Century." This lecture will be publicly live-streamed at the MMaP YouTube Chanel: www.youtube.com/live/DQAAXF8... For more info, please visit www.mun.ca/mmap/live-ev...

MMaP Research Centre @mmap.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Meet #MUNEthnomusicology student Reid Orphan! Reid research video game music, gamelan, and Newfoundland folk music. He is also a composer for the work-in-progress Skyrim mod Esroniet: Domain of Lost Unity, where he specializes in integrating East and Southeast Asian musical traditions.

MMaP Research Centre @mmap.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Congratulations to Professor Emerita Dr. Beverley Diamond and her co-editor Dr. Jonathan P.J. Stock on winning the Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology for The Routledge Companion to Ethics and Research in Ethnomusicology, published in 2024!

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MMaP Research Centre @mmap.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Meet #MUNEthnomusicology student Kate McCann! Kate hails from New England, graduating from Bennington College in 2014 with a BA in music and anthropology. In addition to writing her own songs, Kate is active in folk music communities. Kate's research focuses on sea shanties and ballad singing.

MMaP Research Centre @mmap.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Congratulations to #MUNEthnomusicology Glenn Patterson for successfully defending his PhD thesis! Supervisor: Bev Diamond (Music) Committee Members: Meghan Forsyth (Music) and Jillian Gould (folklore) Internal Examiner: Luis Achondo (Music) Exam Chair: Scott MacLaughlan (Math)

MMaP Research Centre @mmap.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Now Streaming! MMaP's Music and Culture lecture from Dr. Inderjit Kaur! In "Sensational Journeys: Embodiment in the Time of Aura in Sikh Musical Worship," Dr Kaur discusses the transportive sensations that arise during musical worship at the Golden Temple.

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Music & Culture Lecture Series: Inderjit N Kaur

MMaP Research Centre @mmap.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Suffering from the winter blahs? Cheer up with more selections from our Winter 2025 Good as a Concert performance with Eleanor Dawson, Anita Best, Matthew Byrne, and Jenna Maloney.

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Good as a Concert, Winter, 2025: – Selections from the Evening Concert, Part 2

MMaP Research Centre @mmap.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

This summer, #MunEthnomusicology student Andrina worked as the events assistant for Neighbourhood Dance works, helping to launch St. John's very first Vertical Dance Week. Andrina is continuing to work with NDW for their upcoming Festival of New Dance. Keep up the good work, Andrina!

MMaP Research Centre @mmap.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

MA student in ethnomusicology Linus Glaesemer is conducting his summer research in Bamberg, Germany, focusing on 1980s’ nostalgia and revivalist aesthetics in the contemporary Neue Neue Dutsche Welle (New New German Wave) scene. Way to go, Linus!

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MMaP Research Centre @mmap.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Now Live! Selections from Good as a Concert, Songs for all Souls, Part 1! Featuring Pamela Morgan, Maria Peddle, Graham Wells, Catherine Wright and Jim Payne.   Watch is now on our YouTube page by following this link! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mi7...

MMaP Research Centre @mmap.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the web portal for the Jean Trudel Collection: fjt.digital.utsc.utoronto.ca/en This collection contains audio and video field recordings made by folklorist Jean Trudel in Quebec between 1965 and 1977.

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MMaP Research Centre @mmap.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

PhD Candidate Edwin Mansook is currently doing his fieldwork on masquerade traditions in Guyana. His participant-action research was recently featured in an article in the Guyana Chronicle. Congratulations, Edwin!

MMaP Research Centre @mmap.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

#OHPMCSneakPeek! In "Towards a Phenomenology of Rasa: Theorizing from Ras in Sikh Sabad Kīrtan Practice,"Inderjit N. Kaur analyses the notion of ras (flavour/essence) in performance, exploring the Sabad Kīrtan practice from historical documentation to present-day California's continuous tradition.

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MMaP Research Centre @mmap.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

MMaP is delighted to announce that #MUNEthnomusicology student Arsalan Pareyal, has been appointed Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of Comparative Humanities and Interim Director of the Centre for South Asian Music at Habib University in Karachi, Pakistan. Congratulations, Arsalan!

MMaP Research Centre @mmap.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

#OHPMCSneakPeek In “Scrape, Brush, Flick: The Phenomenology of Sound,” Katherine Young analyzes the nature of auditory encounters and their impact on our understanding of both the world and ourselves, examining the distinctive ways space appears in perceptual modes of listening and seeing.

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MMaP Research Centre @mmap.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

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Reviving a Legacy: Educational workshop reimagines Masquerade tradition in Guyana - Guyana Chronicle

IN a thoughtful fusion of academia and cultural preservation, Edwin Mansook, a Ph.D. candidate at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, on Monday hosted a

MMaP Research Centre @mmap.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

#OHPMCSeakPeek! In “Sexed Bodies/(Im)Possible Bodies/Polyphonic Bodies,” Stephen Amico critiques traditional theories of gender that prioritize its discursive dimensions over all of its other aspects.

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MMaP Research Centre @mmap.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Now Streaming! In his talk, "Streaming Virtuosities: Media Structures, Accelerated Fandom, and Alienation by Volume," Dr. VanderHamm explores how our online experiences of musical virtuosity are mediated by the digital platforms on which we consume them. Watch now on MMAP's Youtube Channel!

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Music & Culture Lecture Series: David VanderHamm

MMaP Research Centre @mmap.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

From May 20 through May 22, 2025, MMaP will host Phenomenology of Music Across the Disciplines, an international conference that will bring together scholars from the broad range of disciplines that draw on phenomenological methods in music research.

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MMaP Research Centre @mmap.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

#PHMPCSneakPeek In “The Sound of Movement: Hearing Kathak Dance,” Monica Dalidowicz explores the relationship between movement and sound in Indian Kathak dance, showing how dancers perceive their bodies in motion through auditory cues and emphasizing the role of sound in guiding movement.

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MMaP Research Centre @mmap.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

#OHMPCSneakPeek In “Playing and Listening: Phenomenological Hermeneutics and Improvisation,” Sharp considers improvisation as central to the relationship between musical experience and social life, arguing that it confronts us with both our finitude and our potential for change.

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MMaP Research Centre @mmap.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

#OHMPCSneakPeek! In “Facing the Musical Other,” Esther Clinton and Jeremy Wallach suggests new ways of understanding fieldwork in ethnomusicology as an ethical practice of encounter between researchers and research participants.

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MMaP Research Centre @mmap.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

The price of admission is $25 for non-students and $20 for students, and tickets are available for purchase at the event. Good as a Concert is a production of SingSong Inc, MMaP, and Eleanor Dawson.

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MMaP Research Centre @mmap.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

#OHPMCSneakPeek! In their chapter, authors Dotan Nitzberg (a concert pianist on the autism spectrum) and Michael Bakan (a neurotypical ethnomusicologist) challenge the objectification and dehumanization of autistic individuals, particularly musicians.

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MMaP Research Centre @mmap.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

#OHPMCSneakpeek! In “Carl Stumpf and the Phenomenology of Musical Utterances,” Julia Kursell examines this noted thinker’s contributions to the phenomenology of music cultures, underscoring his influential role in the emergence of ethnomusicology.

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MMaP Research Centre @mmap.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Has all this rain got you feeling down? Why not cheer up with selections from our winter session of Good as a Concert! www.youtube.com/watch?v=68eX...

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Good as a Concert, Winter 2024: Rites of Spring – Selections from the Evening Concert, Part 1