Events
April 2, 2021
Balkanology – new book by Carol Silverman
From countercultural resistance to world music craze, Balkan music captured the attention of global audiences. Balkanology, the 1991 quintessential album of Bulgarian music, highlights this moment of unbridled creativity. Seasoned musicians all over the world are still in awe of the technical abilities of the musicians in Ansambl Trakia-their complex additive rhythms, breakneck speeds, stunning improvisations, dense ornamentation, chromatic passages, and innovative modulations. Bridging folk, jazz, and rock sensibilities, Trakia’s music has set the standard for Bulgarian music until today, and its members, especially Ivo Papazov, are revered stars at home and abroad. The album reveals how Romani (Gypsy) artists resisted the state’s prohibition against Romani music and fashioned a genre that became a youth movement in Bulgaria, and then a world music phenomenon. Balkanology underscores the political, economic and social roles of music during socialism and postsocialism.
The book is part of Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 series that focuses on significant albums, their history and their impact. Professor Silverman says, “I chose the album Balkanology because it has become a classic, because it crossed over to world music audiences and because I was able to revisit the liner notes I wrote for the album in 1991.”
February 19, 2021
Folklore and Public Culture Spring 2021 Classes
Need Spring Term Courses?
https://folklore.uoregon.edu/welcome/class_schedule/
Folklore and Public Culture Program
Information contact: emagee@uoregon.edu
December 23, 2020
Folklore and Public Culture Winter 2021 Courses
Need Winter Term Courses?
https://folklore.uoregon.edu/welcome/class_schedule/
Folklore and Public Culture Program
Information contact: emagee@uoregon.edu
October 14, 2020
“Intangible Cultural Heritage in Asia” – Zoom Event
Leah Lowthorp, UO Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Folklore, will be participating in an “Intangible Cultural Heritage in Asia” Zoom event with the Anthropological Institute at Nanzan University in Japan. For those interested, here is the link to the Anthropological Institute page and the direct link to the Zoom registration page. Please note that the event time is listed in Japan Standard time; in PST it is Sunday Oct 25, 5:30-7:00pm.
The event concerns a recent special issue of the journal Asian Ethnology on the same theme. You can find the special issue open access here.
March 23, 2020
AFS 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting
The Society’s 132nd annual meeting will be held October 13–17, 2020 as a virtual meeting. The updated theme for the meeting is Centers/Peripheries: Connecting Beyond the Binaries.
- View the Program
- Register here
- Access the Conference Platform: Open Soon!