Media Relations
Tuesday,
September 9,
2003
Folklore
IU Bloomington Libraries are publishing their first faculty-generated electronic journal, Museum Anthropology Review, which is dedicated to museum and material culture studies.
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The Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music (ATM) and the Archive of World Music at Harvard University have been awarded a $349,910 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to continue their collaborative research and development project that will digital preserve critically endangered sound recordings.
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Richard Bauman, distinguished professor of folklore and chair of the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University Bloomington, has been awarded the 2006 Edward Sapir Book Prize for his co-authored work Voices of Modernity: Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequality.
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A research team from Indiana University and the University of Michigan has received a $850,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to begin the implementation phase of a searchable online digital video archive that they have been developing since 2001.
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Lecture Notes for Oct. 23-Nov. 6, 2006. Lectures and speakers featured on the Indiana University Bloomington and Kokomo campuses include a visit from Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson, an evaluation of Indiana charter schools and two lectures in correlation with the IU Art Museum's exhibit, "Conspiring with Tradition: Contemporary Painting from the Guilin Chinese Painting Academy."
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The Indiana State Fair and Traditional Arts Indiana -- a partnership of Indiana University Bloomington's Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and the Indiana Arts Commission -- are accepting entries for the Traditional Arts Indiana State Fair Fiddle Contest. The competition, featuring some of Indiana's finest fiddlers, will take place on Saturday, Aug. 12 on the WFMS Free Stage at the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis.
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