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Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Capital Gallery 2001
MRC 520
Washington, DC 20013-7012
sonneborna@si.edu
Education
B. A.(1982) University of California, Santa Cruz; M.A.(1984) University of California, San Diego; Ph.D.(1995) University of California, Los Angeles
Research
Interests
Intentionality in music, Sufi music in America, music and mysticism, folk music of the Veneto (Italy), applied ethnomusicology.
Current
Research Projects
Collaboration between field researchers and a museum-based non-profit record label.
Current
or Projected Exhibits
Fifteen to twenty new recordings released per year
Current
Publications
2010
Co-author with Megan Banner Sutherland. http://www.america.gov/cultural_heritage.html accessed
November 3, 2010.
UR Music. Little Earth. Rahim AlHaj and friends. 2-CD set. Compact disc liner notes.
Artist Spotlight: "A Tribute to Sam Gesser (1930-2008)" In Smithsonian Folkways Magazine. Winter 2010. http://www.folkways.si.edu/magazine/2010_winter/index.aspx accessed March 21, 2010.
2009
"The Invisible Conduit from the World to Human Ears." In Pietilä, Tuulikki, editor: World Music: Roots and Routes. COLLeGIUM: Studies Across Disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. 6. Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies: Helsinki, Finland. http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/e-series/volumes/ accessed November 29, 2009.
2008
"Sam Gesser: Documenting Canadian Music" In Carlin, Richard: Worlds of Sound: The Story of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Smithsonian Books/Collins, Publishers: New York
"American Roots Music" with Carlin, Richard. Introduction to CD booklet notes. U.S. Dept of State Bureau of International Information Programs/Smithsonian Folkways: Manila, Philippines.
2003
"Smithsonian Folkways Recordings: A Question of Balance" Folklore Forum.
2001
"Harmonic Experience." Book review. Ethnomusicology. 45/2. (Spring/Summer)
"Snapshot: Sufi Music and Dance" in United States and Canada North America. Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Vol. 3. Garland Publishing, Inc.: New York, London: 1042-46.
2000
"Street Violinist, Bologna, 1988." Photograph in Europe: Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Vol. 8. Garland Publishing, Inc. New York, London:42-3.
"Arab-American Music." Recording review. Asian Music. 31/1.
Catalog 2000. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
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