Atesh Sonneborn

Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Smithsonian Institution
MRC 953PO Box 37012
Washington, D.C. 20013-7012

sonneborna@si.edu

Research Interests

Intentionality in music, music and mysticism, folk music of the Veneto (Italy).

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.

Recent Publications

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.

"New Music From the Near East. Arabic Coffeepot (Marcel Khalife, et al.), Dance (Marcel Khalife, et al.), and The Desert Speaks (Yosefa Dahari). 29/2: 152-155." Recording reviews. Asian Music. 29/2. (Spring/Summer): 152-155.

"Harmonic Experience, by W. A. Mathieu." Book review. The Sound. #172 (April 1998): 1-2, 5.

1997

Spielmusik Shönfeldinger o Bernstein. Liner notes (English translation), audio CD. Salzburg: Lotus Records Salzburg.

"American Sufi Music: Islamic Ritual in a New Context." Presented June 29 at the bi-annual meeting of the International Council for Traditional Music, Nitra, Slovakia.

1996

Hamza El Din. Available Sound. Liner notes, audio CD. Salzburg, Austria: Lotus Records Salzburg.