Folklore and Ethnomusicology Department
Music archives and libraries around the country are using new standards developed at Indiana University to digitally preserve endangered sound recordings.
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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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Traditional Arts Indiana -- a partnership between Indiana University's Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and the Indiana Arts Commission -- was honored with a resolution passed by the Indiana General Assembly.
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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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Two words in Hebrew -- "Hoo" and "Shir" -- come together to phonetically sound like Indiana University's and the state's treasured nickname, "Hoosier." Appropriately, for a group of IU students who will sing later this month at the White House, the words also mean, "it is a song."
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