Dr. Ida Halpern<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\nPrepared liner notes<\/p>\n
Transcribed select music examples<\/p>\n
Conducted literature search on specific topics<\/p>\n
Consulted with Bill Holm and Kwakwaka’wakw authorities (William Wasden Jr, Tony Hunt)<\/p>\n
Observed Tsequa and Tlasila ceremonies at a Potlatch in Alert Bay<\/p>\n
English morris dance<\/h2>\n
Participant observer with the Vancouver Morris Men
\nThe VMM are one of only two teams from outside England to be accepted into the membership of the English Ring Association of Morris Dancers.<\/p>\n
Engaged in field trips as a member of the VMM during their tours in England<\/p>\n
Observed the process of aural transmission in the context of traditional folk dance<\/p>\n
Recorded the dynamics of musician-dancer interaction in my role as a musician<\/p>\n
Conducted ethnographic interviews with male and female members of the Vancouver and English communities of morris dancers<\/p>\n
Tested theories of reception and re-enactment in my role as public liaison<\/p>\n
Triangulated performance strategies with the VMM and the Romanian Calusari Dancers of Regina during a unique joint venture in Vancouver, re-enacting Whitsuntide customs common to both traditions<\/p>\n
Mapped the common practice of spontaneous group singing in pub sessions<\/p>\n
Initiated discussions \/ actively participated on an international listserv<\/p>\n
English traditional instrumental folk music<\/h2>\n
Researched and engaged in the process of spontaneous, amateur music-making sessions<\/p>\n
Studied aural transmission among musicians who only play music by ear<\/p>\n
Observed various scenarios relevant to reception theories in folk music performance<\/p>\n
English and continental mummers music-dramas<\/h2>\n
Conducted interviews with authorities such as Ron Shuttleworth of England<\/p>\n
Tested theories of performativity by re-enacting context-sensitive performances<\/p>\n
Initiated discussions \/ actively participated on an international listserv<\/p>\n
Examined multiple texts as derivatives and hybrids<\/p>\n
Timbral Brigades of the Salvation Army<\/h2>\n
Conducted interviews with authority figures in Toronto, California, and Australia<\/p>\n
Observed timbral performances at the North Toronto Salvation Army Community Church<\/p>\n
Interviewed performers in Toronto, Vancouver, and Saskatoon<\/p>\n
Contrasted gender roles in performance and religious contexts<\/p>\n
May Day celebrations in New Westminster<\/h2>\n
Observed and recorded annual performances in New Westminster<\/p>\n
Conducted interviews with May Day participants<\/p>\n
Researched historical May Day accounts in New Westminster museums<\/p>\n
Focused on Ms. Cave-Brown-Cave, a pioneer of New Westminster and its May Day<\/p>\n
Corresponded with May Day activists and researchers in England<\/p>\n
Recorded transformations of the annual custom across generations<\/p>\n
Militia music in Vancouver<\/h2>\n
Participant observer in the British Columbia Regiment Band as musician, then conductor<\/p>\n
Researched archival sources in civic archives<\/p>\n
Examined historical material in the Beatty Street Armory regimental museum<\/p>\n
Examined etic and emic perspectives as a musician and officer in Remembrance Day and Church Day Parades<\/p>\n
Triangulated conditions of reception and performativity with other militia musicians in the Seaforth Highlanders and the 5th<\/sup> Field Regiment, RCA (Victoria)<\/p>\nNoted tension between amateur performers and military expectations<\/p>\n
British Brass Band Culture<\/h2>\n
Interviewed English brass band composers and transplanted English brass band players newly moved to Vancouver<\/p>\n
Observed the interplay of amateur performance standards and concert expectations<\/p>\n
Recorded the varying levels of appreciation for the genre of performance ensemble in relation to cultural heritage and previous experience<\/p>\n
Powwow Music<\/h2>\n
Analyzed music using recorded music samples from Western Canadian Drum Circles<\/p>\n
Discovered and notated complex polyrhythmic features<\/p>\n
Developed a unique system of prescriptive notation and critiqued historical descriptive notation<\/p>\n
Lee-hom Wang, Jay Chou and East Asia Soft Pop<\/h2>\n
Compiled ethnographic material from East Asian university music students’ musical tastes<\/p>\n
Triangulated \u201cshidaigu\u201d and \u201czhongguo feng\u201d with Chou and Wang<\/p>\n
Conducted literature search for Western Middle-of-the-Road popular music stylistic traits<\/p>\n
Contrasted East Asian Popular Music reception in Canada among non-East Asians<\/p>\n
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