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The People of Critical World
Critical World is based in the Department of Anthropology at the Université de Montréal, under the supervision of Professor Bob W. White. Critical World includes the participation of professors, researchers, students and artists from various cultural backgrounds and disciplinary perspectives.
Steering Committee
Editorial Board
Production Teams
Programming & Design
Contributors
Steering Committee
Steven Feld (member of steering committee, 2003-present) is Professor of Anthropology and Music at the University of New Mexico, and visiting professor of Ethnomusicology at the Greig Academy of Music at the University of Bergen in Norway. A long time Santa Fe resident, he has been active in New Mexico music since the mid 1970s when he was a founder of the New Mexico Jazz Workshop. He previously taught at Columbia University, New York University, University of California at Santa Cruz, University of Texas at Austin, and University of Pennsylvania. Feld’s research principally concerns the anthropology of sound and voice, incorporating studies in linguistics and poetics, music and aesthetics, acoustics and ecology. Since the mid-1970s he has studied the sound world of the Bosavi rainforest in Papua New Guinea. He has more recently researched the sound world of Greek Macedonia and Romani (“Gypsy”) instrumentalists.
Denis-Constant Martin (member of steering committee, 2003-present), docteur ès-Lettres, est directeur de recherche à la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques (Centre d'études et de recherches internationales); il enseigne à l'Institut d'études politiques de Paris, à l'Université Paris 8-Saint Denis, ainsi qu'à l'Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. À partir de travaux de terrain en Afrique orientale et australe ainsi que dans les Caraïbes du Commonwealth, il s'est attaché à explorer les rapports entre culture et politique dans une perspective comparatiste, ce qui l'a conduit à s'intéresser, notamment, aux problèmes de construction et d'expression des identités en politique ainsi qu'aux relations entre fêtes, musiques populaires et représentations politiques. Il travaille en ce moment à une étude des fêtes du Nouvel an au Cap (Afrique du Sud).
Louise Meintjes (member of steering committee, 2006-present) is Associate Professor of Music and Cultural Anthropology at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. She is the author of "Sound of Africa! Making Music in a South African Studio" (Duke University Press, 2003) and is currently working on a monograph on Zulu ngoma song and dance in the context of HIV/AIDS, post Apartheid struggles, and the global culture industry. Her research interests include the politics of the world music industry, the relationships among music, conflict and human rights, and the dance-music-voice intersection.
Timothy D. Taylor (member of steering committee, 2003-present) is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Ethnomusicology and Musicology at the University of California , Los Angeles . He is the author of Global Pop: World Music, World Markets (Routledge, 1997), Strange Sounds: Music, Technology and Culture (Routledge, 2001), and numerous articles on various popular and classical musics. His interests include globalization, technology, race, ethnicity, consumption, tourism, and gender. He has received a fellowship from the National Humanities Center , as well as a junior fellowship and the Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. He is currently writing two books: a study of five hundred years of music and difference (to be published by Duke University Press), and a history of music used in advertising from early radio to the present.
Bob W. White (Principal Investigator) is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Université de Montréal, in Canada . He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Kinshasa , DRC and he is currently completing a monograph that examines the relationship between popular music and political culture in Mobutu’s Zaire (forthcoming Duke University Press). He has published articles on the performance and the history of Congolese popular dance music, the political culture of the Mobutu regime, the political economy of world music, and the various uses of culture and performance in the public sphere. His most current research uses ethnographic methods to look at the relationship between mass media and audiences in the contemporary urban setting of the Congo.
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Editorial Board
Rafael José de Menezes Bastos (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Brazil)
Ndiouga Adrien Benga (Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal)
Bernard Gendron (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA)
Line Grenier (Université de Montréal, Canada)
Jocelyne Guilbault (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Phil Hayward (Macquarie University, Australia)
Donna Hope (University of the West Indies)
Yacouba Konaté ( Université d'Abidjan-Cocody)
Lutgard Mutsaers (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Joyce Nyairo (Moi University, Kenya) [en attente de confirmation]
Ana-Maria Ochoa (New York University, USA)
Martin Roberts (New School, USA)
Marcel Savard (Université de Montréal, Canada)
Paul Theberge (Carleton University, Canada)
Peter Toner (St. Thomas University, Canada)
Peter Wade (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
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Production Teams
Before-Core / 2003-2004:
Marcel Savard (Anthropology, Université de Montréal), Coordinator
Guillaume Carrier (Independent graphic designer)
François Beaudet (Anthropology, Université de Montréal)
Core I / 2004-2005:
Marcel Savard (Anthropology, Université de Montréal), Coordinator
Nelson Arruda (Anthropology, Université de Montréal)
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier (Anthropology, Université de Montréal)
Sophie Le-Phat Ho (Anthropology, McGill University)
Marc Lemieux (Independent filmmaker)
Charles Premont (Anthropology, Université de Montréal)
Core II / 2005-2006:
Camille Brochu (Anthropology, Université de Montréal)
Yara El-Ghadban (Anthropology, Université de Montréal)
Marc-Antoine Lapierre (Anthropology, Université de Montréal)
Sebastien Ouellette (Anthropology, Université de Montréal)
Core III:
Kiven Strohm (Anthropology, Université de Montréal)
Sebastien Ouellette (Anthropology, Université de Montréal)
Section Editors:
Conversations: Alexandre Enkerli (University of Indiana, Bloomington)
Scenes: Roshanak Kheshti (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Events: Carminda MacLorin (Musique, Université de Montréal)
Reviews: Jean-Pierre Sevigny (Independent Scholar and Archivist)
Webography: Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier (University of Manchester)
Keywords: Camille Brochu (Anthropology, University of Montreal)
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Programming & Design
Benjamin Trepanier (Intrigmedia, Montréal, Québec)
Charles Hamel (Intrigmedia, Montréal, Québec)
You can get more information about Intrigmedia at www.intrigmedia.com.
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Contributors
Below is a list of the people who have contributed original material to Critical World.
The parentheses following the title of the contribution indicates where the project can be found.
Nelson Arruda (M.A., Anthropology, Université de Montréal): Démystifier un paradoxe (Projects); Alleuchatistas (Conversations) ; member of production team (2004)
Annick Beauvais (M.A. Candidate, Anthropology, Université de Montréal): La scène de la musique du monde à Montréal (Scenes)
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier (Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology, University of Manchester, UK): State the Rhythm (Projects) member of production team (2004); Section editor and prinicipal contributor for Webography (Tools)
Camille Brochu (Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology, Université de Montréal): Introduction to Keywords (Tools); member of production team (2005); project interpreter and translator
Yara El-Ghadban (Ph.D. candidate, Anthropology, Université de Montréal): Dans l’ombre de l’olivier (Projects); Penser le musical et le social (Big Ideas); member of production team (2005)
Marc-Antoine Lapierre (M.A. candidate, Anthropology, Université de Montréal): Yéyé et mondialisation (Projects); member of production team (2005)
Marc Lemieux (Independent filmmaker); Critical World video clip (with Marcel Savard) (intro page) video montage for Critical Worlds I (Events), member of production team (2004)
Sophie Le-Phat Ho (Independent Student): Auto-Contaminating Art (Projects); member of production team (2004)
Denis-Constant Martin (CERI, Paris): member of steering committee; New Year in Cape Town (Projects)
Anne McKnight and Sharon Hayashi (East Asian Studies, McGill University): Goodbye Kitty, Hello War (Projects)
Sebastien Ouellette (M.A. Candidate, Anthropology, Université de Montréal): Matières Sonores (Projects); member of production team (2005)
Shawn Pitre (Ph.D. Candidate) and Catherine Gauthier Mercier (Faculty of Music, Université de Montréal): « Jambalaya » (Projects)
Charles Prémont (M.A., Anthropology, Université de Montréal): Yacouba Konaté (Conversations); Indica Records (Projects); Pygmy Pop (Big Texts); member of production team (2004)
Giovanni Princigalli (M.A., Histoire de l’art et cinéma, Université de Montréal): Notta della taranta (Projects)
Marcel Savard (Ph.D. candidate, Anthropology, Université de Montréal): artistic direction and technical design of Critical World (versions 1-8); coordinator of production team (2003, 2004)
Jean-Pierre Sevigny (Independent Scholar and Archivist): Les vies du ché (Reviews); section editor for Reviews (Applications)
Phil Tagg (Professor, Music, Université de Montréal): British Blue Notes (Projects)
Timothy Taylor (Professor, Ethnomusicology/Music, UCLA): World Music in TV Ads (Projects); member of steering committee
Bob White (Associate Professor, Anthropology, Université de Montréal): Exotica (Big Sounds) Anxiety and Celebration (Projects); Pardon, Pardon (Projects)
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