January 8, 2012
A Musical Intervention
Multimillion-dollar project to save traditions reflects shift in ethnomusicology
Indranil Mukherjee, AFP, Getty Images
The popularity of artists like Ravi Shankar (below, left) helps keep alive the classical music of India.
During a 2006 trip to an academic meeting in Vietnam, Huib Schippers found himself dreading a conference-sponsored tour. He expected it to be a tourism-inspired ride to a silk factory, with not-so-subtle pressure to buy samples. At the conference, he turned to staff members of a Hanoi music school for advice on getting a more-authentic local experience. A young teacher suggested that Schippers, director of the Queensland Conservatorium at Griffith University, in Australia, might be interested
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