Centre for Research in Ethnomusicology
Projects
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SawaIndigenous Wayana- Apalaí knowledge – A new approach to restitution and its implications for forms of transmission The goal of this project is the empowerment and restitution to the Wayanas and Apalaís of sound, film, and photographic collections documenting the knowledge of these indigenous people of Guyana. The project also proposes a reflection on restitution practices and their impact on the ... -
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2013-2017Sound-Space. Interdisciplinary approach to sound environmentsSound-Space is an interdisciplinary project of University Paris-Lumières which gathers ethnomusicologists from LESC-CREM (UMR, CNRS-UPN with musicologists of EA 1572 (Musidance, Paris 8). The project proposes an interdisciplinary approach (drawing upon ethnomusicology, musicology, architecture, acoustics, anthropology…) to our sound environments. It focuses on day-to-day environments, such as ... -
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2014-2017PolimusMusic and Memory Politics: Emergence, History, Appropriations POLIMUS is a LabEx Les passés dans le présent program The quest to reconstruct the styles and histories of musical genres of the past is an old preoccupation. Since the 19th century, the orientalist imaginary contributed considerably to the notion of the existence of “origin-musics”. Whether “Pharaonic,” “Arab,” or “Hindu,” a common ... -
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2014-2017Europeana SoundLe CREM est partenaire du projet Europeana Sound, dirigé par la British Library. Ce projet est financé par l'Union Européenne. Europeana est une bibliothèque numérique européenne lancée en novembre 2008 par la commission européenne. Dans ce cadre, le projet Europeana Sound propose de créer un accès unifié aux collections sonores de grandes institutions patrimoniales et scientifique en Europe. Le ... -
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2016-2017DacaryhThe Calypso Rhythm Throughout History: A Data Science Approach The project DaCaRyH strives to enrich the pracrice of ethnomusicology in bringing traditional music repertoires together with Music Information Retrieval (MIR) technologies and techniques. DaCaRyH also aims to respond to Big Data computing and statistical issues by integrating examples of traditional music into the development of ... -
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Pan-e-pediaDesigned as a platform for archiving and consultation, as well as a tool of analysis for a research project on organological development, Pan-e-pedia seeks to portray the stunning diversity of a recent instrument family: steelpans. Constructed from one to twelve petrol cans for one musician and played in orchestras called “steelbands”, steelpans comprise a new family of melodic idiophones, ... -
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CNRS Consortium MusicaAs a partner of the CREM and TGIR Human-Num, consortium Musica, brings together several research units and teams around a common theme: the development and growth of digital music data through the use of common repositories, and the dissemination of good coding practices and data digitization operations. One of Musica’s objectives is to coordinate the epistemological reflection of researchers, ... -
![The Musical Heritage of Nanterre's Residents]()
The Musical Heritage of Nanterre's ResidentsThis research/action project mobilizes a small team of master’s students from the campus of the University of Paris West Nanterre La Défense (UPO) to apply ethnomusicology to the very city that surrounds the campus. Begun at the beginning of 2010, it uses students in the professional master’s Ethnomusicology and anthropology of dance (EMAD) in UPO’s Department of Ethnology, Prehistory, ... -
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MilsonPour une anthropologie des MILieux SONores The MILSON program gathers anthropologists and artists who consider ambient sound in its sociocultural context of production and perception. Studies dedicated to sound emerge in different disciplines: musicology, architecture and urbanism, ethnomusicology, acoustics and psychology, history, as well as computer sciences. Though the study of ethnographic ... -
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2015-2018HeritamusFrom June 2015 to May 2018, this project was a collaboration betweenthe New University of Lisbon, the University of Seville, and the Centre for Research in Ethnomusicology. It received European financing from the JPI funds. Since 2010 Flamenco, and 2011 Fado, both musical practices, have been on the UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritage. With Heritamus, by focusing specifically on the ... -
![Cross-Disciplinary and Multicultural Perspectives on Musical Rhythm]()
Cross-Disciplinary and Multicultural Perspectives on Musical RhythmThe CREM collaborates on the project “Cross-Disciplinary and Multicultural Perspectives on Musical Rhythm” with New York University teams (NYU Abu Dhabi and New York), providing a corpus of analysis constituting a selection of traditional music sound recordings from the CNRS-Musée de l’Homme sound archives. -
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ethnomusicoology.orgEthnomusicoology.org est un projet de médiation scientifique lancé par le centre de recherche en ethnomusicologie (CREM) autour de ses archives sonores. Destiné à un public élargi de mélomanes et curieux, bien au-delà de la communauté des chercheurs, ce projet s’appuie sur un site internet nouveau. Facilement consultable sur terminaux mobiles, ce site sera orienté en premier lieu vers l’écoute, ...
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