I don’t see theoretical differences, as much as practical distinctions, between academic and public work. As the producer and host for public radio’s American Routes, I play the role of a creator and performer as much as critic or scholar in presenting and interpreting community-based music forms as they are transformed in social, cultural, economic and aesthetic terms to reach wider audiences for vernacular and popular culture.
Brown University's Department of Music hosted the first conference on Applied Ethnomusicology. Participants from Europe and the United States discussed various ways in which Ethnomusicologists work directly in and on behalf of communities outside of academia. This project provides streaming …
