New Media - July 2009
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
UW Welcomes Afghan Visitors
Three esteemed visitors from Radio Kabul/Afghanistan arrived in Seattle this past Monday for a 3-week audio archiving workshop sponsored by the UW Libraries and the UW School of Music.
They are:
• Zafar Jan Daqiq, American Institute of Afghanistan Studies;
• Abdul Jamil Wardak, Radio Afghanistan;
• Abdul Wahed Popal, Radio Afghanistan.
The workshop, which is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), has been developed to complement a larger NEH Preservation and Access grant that has enabled Radio Kabul/Afghanistan staff to digitize and preserve nearly 1500 hours of unique music recordings. In addition to providing the participants with hands-on training in audio preservation, the workshop is intended to connect the Radio Kabul/Afghanistan Archives to a larger community of international archives and archivists.
The workshop is co-instructed by Laurel Sercombe (UW Ethnomusicology Archives), and myself, along with help from John Gibbs (UW Libraries), Gary Louie (UW School of Music), Colin Todd (UW School of Music, and others. The Principal Investigator for the workshop and the larger NEH grant is Hiromi Lorraine Sakata, former UW ethnomusicology professor and UCLA Professor Emerita.
Following their 3 weeks in Seattle, Prof. Sakata will accompany the participants to Bloomington for a visit to Indiana University’s Archives of Traditional Music, where Mr. Wahid Nazari (President of Radio-Television Afghanistan) is scheduled to join the group. The group then flies to Washington DC where they will meet with representatives from the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian until their return to Kabul in late July.
More information about Radio Kabul/Afghanistan can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Kabul
A BBC story about the archive and how its staff members (Abdul Jamil Wardak and Abdul Wahed Popal among them) helped save it, can be found here:
http://tinyurl.com/kr4fhf
And if you see our honored guests around UW please make them feel welcome by saying “Salaam Alekum” (Dari for “Hello” / “Peace and blessings be upon you”).
-John Vallier
They are:
• Zafar Jan Daqiq, American Institute of Afghanistan Studies;
• Abdul Jamil Wardak, Radio Afghanistan;
• Abdul Wahed Popal, Radio Afghanistan.
The workshop, which is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), has been developed to complement a larger NEH Preservation and Access grant that has enabled Radio Kabul/Afghanistan staff to digitize and preserve nearly 1500 hours of unique music recordings. In addition to providing the participants with hands-on training in audio preservation, the workshop is intended to connect the Radio Kabul/Afghanistan Archives to a larger community of international archives and archivists.
The workshop is co-instructed by Laurel Sercombe (UW Ethnomusicology Archives), and myself, along with help from John Gibbs (UW Libraries), Gary Louie (UW School of Music), Colin Todd (UW School of Music, and others. The Principal Investigator for the workshop and the larger NEH grant is Hiromi Lorraine Sakata, former UW ethnomusicology professor and UCLA Professor Emerita.
Following their 3 weeks in Seattle, Prof. Sakata will accompany the participants to Bloomington for a visit to Indiana University’s Archives of Traditional Music, where Mr. Wahid Nazari (President of Radio-Television Afghanistan) is scheduled to join the group. The group then flies to Washington DC where they will meet with representatives from the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian until their return to Kabul in late July.
More information about Radio Kabul/Afghanistan can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Kabul
A BBC story about the archive and how its staff members (Abdul Jamil Wardak and Abdul Wahed Popal among them) helped save it, can be found here:
http://tinyurl.com/kr4fhf
And if you see our honored guests around UW please make them feel welcome by saying “Salaam Alekum” (Dari for “Hello” / “Peace and blessings be upon you”).
-John Vallier
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Tuesday, June 2, 2009
New Media - June 2009
We’re finishing up the academic year with some great additions to our collection. As for DVDs, we’ve just got in a nice little DIY documentary on Red House, a punk venue in Olympia, Washington. There are also some new Criterion films: Science is fiction, The curious case of Benjamin Button, L’età di Cosimo de’ Medici, Ariel, Blaise Pascal, Cartesius, The love parade, Monte Carlo, One hour with you, and Varjoja paratiisissa. We also got a bunch of new television shows (Battlestar Galactica, SesameStreet, HBO’s Carnivale) as well as new seasons to some shows we already carried.
As for VHS, we've added 260 this month. That's a lot for a dying format -- heh. This is largely due to cataloging videos from the recently acquired EMC collection. A lot of classic education titles in there. And, of course, we are still plodding through a large donation of VHS tapes -- we're up to D's so this month we have a lot of new day and death titles this month
As for CDs, a lot of great new additions to the Puget Sounds collection, including a bunch of titles from Hardly Art Records.
Labels: collection, new
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009
New Media - May 2009
Lots of great local music and hip hop added to out collection this month, including Black Moon, Jeru the Damaja, Sleater-Kinney, Prkr, Starfucker, Portugal. The Man, Pharcyde, and a whole lot of Bill Frisell! Check out all of our new music this month here.
New additions to our DVD collection include 30 Rock (Season 1), Twilight, The Reader, Changeling, Farewell My Concubine, Spaced (Season 1 and 2), and the Prisoner of Shark Island! Check out all of our new DVDs here.
And, of course, we're continually adding VHS to our collection from a large gifts donation, including Darkman 1, 2, and 3, the entire Die Hard series, Cloak and Dagger, the Dakota Incident, the Dark Crystal, and Dante's Peak! Check out all of our newest VHS acquisitions here.
New additions to our DVD collection include 30 Rock (Season 1), Twilight, The Reader, Changeling, Farewell My Concubine, Spaced (Season 1 and 2), and the Prisoner of Shark Island! Check out all of our new DVDs here.
And, of course, we're continually adding VHS to our collection from a large gifts donation, including Darkman 1, 2, and 3, the entire Die Hard series, Cloak and Dagger, the Dakota Incident, the Dark Crystal, and Dante's Peak! Check out all of our newest VHS acquisitions here.
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Friday, May 1, 2009
New loan period for videos: 7 days!
The loan period for DVDs and VHS increased today from 3 days to 7 days. And still with unlimited renewals!
The loan period for CDs is still 3 days. And videos on course reserve will have shorter loan periods.
The loan period for CDs is still 3 days. And videos on course reserve will have shorter loan periods.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Jazz Music Library - Free until May 1
Are you a cool cat who digs swing, free jazz, bop, or? Check out ASP's Jazz Music Library for free through May 1. Let us know if you like this database o' sound recordings and we'll consider subscribing.
URL: http://jazz.alexanderstreet.com
username: jazz
password: sneakpeek
URL: http://jazz.alexanderstreet.com
username: jazz
password: sneakpeek
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
UW Ethnomusicology Concert - Tonight (4/28)
The UW School of Music, Division of Ethnomusicology's annual recital by visiting artists spotlights music of Mongolia and South Africa. Visiting artist Li Bo, a master of the Mongolian morin khuur (a two-stringed horse-head fiddle), presents a virtuoso solo program. Mudzunga Junniah Davhula, visiting artist from the Venda region of South Africa, leads an ensemble of singing, drumming, and reed pipes.
DATE AND TIME
Tuesday, April 28, 7:30 p.m.
Meany Theater
TICKETS
$15 ($10 students and seniors)
PROGRAM DETAIL/BACKGROUND
The School of Music's Division of Ethnomusicology has been hosting visiting artists from around the world since the mid-1960s. Each year, the division invites two master musicians to join the faculty as artists in residence. Artists have come from numerous countries in Africa, North and South America, Asia and Europe. Li Bo and Mudzunga Junniah Davhula are the division's artists in residence for the 2008-09 academic year.
BIOS
Li Bo, born in Inner Mongolia in 1955, is a distinguished performer on the morin khuur, the horse-head fiddle known in Chinese as matouqin. He has been a professional musician since the age of 15, when he joined a local performing arts troupe and began to travel across the steppes. Later he was a featured soloist with a national troupe, and eventually became the lead morin khuur player with the Inner Mongolian Radio/Television network. In the mid-1980s, he taught in the School of Music at the Inner Mongolia Normal University and, at the same time, studied composition.
Li Bo has lived in Japan since 1995, but he has not lost touch with his roots. In 1996, he founded the Morin Khuur Fund Association and raised $20,000 for the 1st Annual Inner Mongolia Folk Music Competition. In 2001, he donated 140 sheep to people of his native region.
He brings the same spirit to his international performances. When Li Bo came to the United States to perform at the Northwest Folklife Festival in 2004 and 2005, he volunteered to work with students in local primary and secondary schools.
Mudzunga Junniah Davhula is a highly revered performer, teacher, and community leader from the Venda area of the Limpopo Province, South Africa. As a visiting artist at the University of Washington, she has introduced her students to Venda music traditions, focusing on the traditional reed pipe ensemble. This ensemble includes reed pipes, Venda drums, singing, and dancing. Her students have learned to play a variety of instruments and to sing traditional songs in several languages.
Mrs. Davhula's appointment as a visiting artist at the University of Washington School of Music marks the first time that a visiting artist from the Venda culture has been appointed to such a position at a North American university.
Program detail
Li Bo will perform solo works for morin khuur and will also be joined by pianist Sachi Hirakouji, dancer Xiaoyan Ban, and students Erin Maloney, April Nishimura, and Leah Pogwizd for several selections.
Mudzunga Junniah Davhula will perform with a student ensemble.
DATE AND TIME
Tuesday, April 28, 7:30 p.m.
Meany Theater
TICKETS
$15 ($10 students and seniors)
PROGRAM DETAIL/BACKGROUND
The School of Music's Division of Ethnomusicology has been hosting visiting artists from around the world since the mid-1960s. Each year, the division invites two master musicians to join the faculty as artists in residence. Artists have come from numerous countries in Africa, North and South America, Asia and Europe. Li Bo and Mudzunga Junniah Davhula are the division's artists in residence for the 2008-09 academic year.
BIOS
Li Bo, born in Inner Mongolia in 1955, is a distinguished performer on the morin khuur, the horse-head fiddle known in Chinese as matouqin. He has been a professional musician since the age of 15, when he joined a local performing arts troupe and began to travel across the steppes. Later he was a featured soloist with a national troupe, and eventually became the lead morin khuur player with the Inner Mongolian Radio/Television network. In the mid-1980s, he taught in the School of Music at the Inner Mongolia Normal University and, at the same time, studied composition.
Li Bo has lived in Japan since 1995, but he has not lost touch with his roots. In 1996, he founded the Morin Khuur Fund Association and raised $20,000 for the 1st Annual Inner Mongolia Folk Music Competition. In 2001, he donated 140 sheep to people of his native region.
He brings the same spirit to his international performances. When Li Bo came to the United States to perform at the Northwest Folklife Festival in 2004 and 2005, he volunteered to work with students in local primary and secondary schools.
Mudzunga Junniah Davhula is a highly revered performer, teacher, and community leader from the Venda area of the Limpopo Province, South Africa. As a visiting artist at the University of Washington, she has introduced her students to Venda music traditions, focusing on the traditional reed pipe ensemble. This ensemble includes reed pipes, Venda drums, singing, and dancing. Her students have learned to play a variety of instruments and to sing traditional songs in several languages.
Mrs. Davhula's appointment as a visiting artist at the University of Washington School of Music marks the first time that a visiting artist from the Venda culture has been appointed to such a position at a North American university.
Program detail
Li Bo will perform solo works for morin khuur and will also be joined by pianist Sachi Hirakouji, dancer Xiaoyan Ban, and students Erin Maloney, April Nishimura, and Leah Pogwizd for several selections.
Mudzunga Junniah Davhula will perform with a student ensemble.
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