SUB-THEME: 3.1 SINGING AND CROSS-CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING
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Zuraida Abud Bastião
Professional backgroundPhD on Music Education - Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) Professor of the Specialization Course in Music Education at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA)
Research interestDevelop training programs for teachers of basic education with a focus on music appreciation
Research interests relevant to AIRSTo study the influences of singing on individuals and societies
Potential contribution to AIRSTo demonstrate how the local culture influences in the the way of singing
Expected benefit from the AIRS collaborationTo share informations and research results with people from many parts of the world
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Steven Brown
Research interestNeuroscience of the arts
Primary Website http://neuroarts.org/
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Patricia Shehan Campbell
Professional backgroundEducation and Ethnomusicology Donald E. Peterson Professor of Music, U-Washington Member, Smithsonian Folkways Board Vice-President, Society for Ethnomusicology Member, Children's Music Foundation
Research interestChildren's musical enculturation, world music pedagogy
Research interests relevant to AIRSChildren's musical cultures Children's songs/singing styles, chants, rhythmicking Music enculturation/socialization Music in communities; Community Music Music of Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam
Potential contribution to AIRSAttention to children's song transmission/acquisition, collection and analysis of traditional songs by/for children, pedagogy of music/songs/singing
Expected benefit from the AIRS collaborationOccasions for cross-fertilizaton of ideas relevant to children's music and musical cultures
Primary Website http://www.music.washington.edu/people/index.php?page=bio&ID=42
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Maria Hnaraki (PhD)
Professional backgroundFounding Director of Greek Studies at Drexel University Diploma of Art in Music Studies from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Creator-Director of the experiential “Study Abroad in Crete” Program M.A. and a Ph. D. in Ethnomusicology, Folklore and Cultural Anthropology from Indiana University-Bloomington Piano Soloist Diploma from the Hellenic Conservatory of Athens and degrees in Theory, Pedagogy and Music Education from the National Conservatory of Athens Author of Cretan Music: Unraveling Ariadne’s Thread
Research interest• Ethnomusicology a. Environmental awareness through Greek folk poetry b. Homeric balladry and oral formulaic theory in Cretan folk poetry c. Identity and aesthetics of Greek music/dance d. Mediterranean performances e. Cretan dance as physical exercise and means of attaining longevity • Literature and music a. Nikos Kazantzakis works set to music b. The walled-up wife legend (Iphigenia and The Bridge of Arta) c. Contemporary Greek composers (e.g. Giorgos Koumendakis) • Creative approaches in language education a. Folklore aspects of the Greek language b. Teaching Greek through songs • Taxonomy, digitization and preservation of music archives • Intercountry education, policies and strategies • Blended learning teaching practices
Research interests relevant to AIRSCreative approaches in music and language education How singing relates to “well-being” by examining its dancing dimensions as well Performance as part of larger lifecycle events Does the famous Diet that relates to longevity have to do with music/dance performance on the island of Crete? Does circle dancing and group singing promote emotional stability which combined with the physical one support one’s health?
Potential contribution to AIRSSince I come from the fields of ethnomusicology, folklore and cultural anthropology, my approach complements the musicological, psychological and sociological nature of the AIRS project.
Expected benefit from the AIRS collaborationI wish to benefit in theory and methodology and therefore enrich "my" study and findings by collaborating with as well as through the guidance, insight and work of other AIRS scholars who come from different than mine scholarly backgrounds, such as the psychological and sociological ones.
Personal Web site http://www.drexel.edu/culturecomm/contact/facultyDirectory/hnaraki/
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Lily Chen Hafteck
Professional backgrounddoctorate in music education from the University of Reading; has held teaching and research positions at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, University of Surrey Roehampton in the U.K. and Hong Kong Baptist University in Hong Kong; has taught music to students of different ages: from preschool to high school. member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Music Education, Asia-Pacific Journal for Arts Education, and Music Education Research International. She has served on the Board of Directors of the International Society for Music Education, the chair of its Early Childhood Commission, and is currently chairing its Young Professional Focus Group.
Research interestmulticultural music education, cultural issues in early childhood musical development, and the relationship between tonal languages and children's singing
Primary Website http://www.kean.edu/~lhafteck/
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Larry O'Farrell
Professional backgroundHolder of the UNESCO Chair in Arts and Learning
Research interestCase studies of drama/theatre and education Drama education for peace culture Teaching playwriting Ritual in drama education Arts curriculum policy Instrumental outcomes of arts education International issues in arts education E-learning in continuing teacher education
Primary Website http://educ.queensu.ca/unesco
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Kati Szego
Professional backgroundB Mus. from Queen's University; MA in Ethnomusicology from University of Hawaii at Manoa; PhD in Systematic Musicology from the University of Washington; studied colonial history of music and dance education at the Kamehameha Schools, an institution for Native Hawaiians in Honolulu. Since then, her work has focused on Hawaii and she continues to combine ethnographic and phenomenological approaches with archival research
Research interestethnomusicology; Hawaiian falsetto singing and yodelling; hybridity and discourses on vocal production
Primary Website http://www.mun.ca/music/people/faculty/kszego.php
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Jiaxing Xie
Professional backgroundProfessor and director of the Music Research Institute of the China Conservatory, distinguished professor of the Art Institute of Henan University and member of the External Examination Committee of Hong Kong Institute of Education. He holds a PhD in Music Aesthetics (2004) from the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing. On the ISME Board since 2010 he is also an executive member of CSME, director of the CSME Academic Committee of Music Education. He played a central role in organizing the 29th ISME World Conference 2010, and in 2011, organized a seminar in Beijing with ISME Community Music Activity Commission. He is adviser to the Asia Pacific Symposium on Music Education Research, served on the Board of the International Music Council. He is on the international advisory board of the British Journal of Music Education
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Godfrey Baldacchino
Professional backgroundBA (English and Social Studies) - 1980; Postgraduate Certificate in Education -1982; MA (Development Studies) - 1986; Ph.D. (Sociology/Business) - 1994.
Canada Research Chair (Island Studies) at UPEI since 2003
Visiting Professor of Sociology, University of Malta, Malta.
Research interestCulture, island studies, communication, island songs and singers
Research interests relevant to AIRSSongs and singers as custodians, cretaors and (re)interpretors of island cultures
Potential contribution to AIRSMy relative ignorance in voice and cognition is a cogent reminder to all that most singers are not professionals, but dilettantes.
Expected benefit from the AIRS collaborationA refreshing take on my area of research interest and expertise. Singing is fun, anyway.
Primary Website http://www.islandstudies.caPersonal Web site http://staff.um.edu.mt/gbal1
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Felix Neto
Professional backgroundPh. D. in Normal and Abnormal Anthropology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris) in 1980 and a Ph. D. in Social Psychology from the Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação (Universidade do Porto) in 1985. Agregated Professor in Psychology at University of Coimbra since 1990. He is actually a "professor catedrático" of social psychology in the Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação at he University of Porto, Portugal where he is also the director of the Cognition and Emotion Center. He is also the coordinator of the Master on "Cross-Cultural Relations" at Universidade Aberta
Research interestMigration and cross-cultural psychology
Personal Web site http://www.fpce.up.pt/docentes/felix_neto/english.htm