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SMR Members at the SEM Annual Meeting
Recently, several ethnomusicologists from U-M traveled to Denver, CO for the Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology (Oct 26–29). Two SMR members, James McNally and Ho Chak Law, presented papers at this conference. James’s paper explores vissungo songs from...
Ryan McCulloch's Research in Moscow
I was awarded a Fulbright for the 2017–18 academic year to research D.D. Shostakovich’s sketches of his 24 Preludes and Fugues, op. 87. This project has allowed me to work in three archives in Moscow: the Shostakovich Archive, the Glinka...
New SMR Doctoral Candidates
This fall, three SMR members joined the ranks of Ph.D. candidates: Nee Chucherdwatanasak (Historical Musicology), Lisa Decenteceo (Ethnomusicology), and William van Geest (Music Theory). Congratulations to all three!
U-M Ethnomusicology Represents at the 2017 Chicago Marathon
Last weekend, Ho Chak Law raced in the Chicago Marathon. He finished in a personal best of 2:58.10, placing him in the top 150 runners in a rather competitive age bracket (see below for results). This time qualifies him to...
never twice the same // an audiovisual recital
UPDATE: Check out videos from the live performance