Dr.
Michael Frishkopf, Associate
Professor, Department of Music (www.music.ualberta.ca); Associate
Director, Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology (CCE) (www.fwalive.ualberta.ca); Research
Fellow, folkwaysAlive! (www.fwalive.ualberta.ca)
Mail: Michael Frishkopf, Department of
Music, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, 3-82 Fine Arts Building,
Edmonton, AB CANADA T6G 2C9
Office: 334D Old Arts Building
Tel: Skype: (617) 275-2589;
office: (780) 492-0225. Music Dept: (780) 492-3263
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Web: www.arts.ualberta.ca/~michaelf/
Music: Giving Voice to Hope: Music
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Music and
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Office hours: Wednesdays 1-3:15 pm (schedule an appointment
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After silence,
that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. (Aldous
Huxley)
Michael Frishkopf, Associate Professor of Music at the
University of Alberta, is an ethnomusicologist and composer. A graduate of Yale
College (BS Mathematics, 1984), Tufts University (MA Ethnomusicology, 1989),
and the University of California, Los Angeles (Ph.D. Music, 1999), Dr.
Frishkopf’s ethnomusicological research interests include Sufi music; the Arab
music industry; sound in Islamic ritual performance; music in West Africa;
music and religion; comparative music theory; the sociology of musical taste;
social network analysis; and digital music repositories.
He has received numerous fellowships supporting his
research, including grants from Fulbright, the American Research Center in
Egypt, the Social Science Research Council, the Woodrow Wilson National
Fellowship Foundation, the Killam Foundation (Canada), the National Endowment
for the Humanities, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of
Canada, supporting his extensive
fieldwork in Egypt.
In performance, Michael specializes in the nay (Middle Eastern reed flute), and
also performs the song-drum-dance traditions of Ghana. He is the founder (in
2004) of the University of Alberta Middle Eastern and North African Music
Ensemble, as well as the University of Alberta West African Music Ensemble (in
1999). Both ensembles perform
frequently in public in the Edmonton area, especially to support progressive
causes. He also performs
“Third Stream” and world music inflected jazz on the piano, following studies
with Ran Blake and others in the Third Stream program at the New England
Conservatory of Music in Boston.
Published
papers:
·
The concept of Arabic Music, in Introduction to the Arab World
(University of Edinburgh Press “Introducing Ethnic Studies” series) (to appear
2008)
·
The Sounds of Islam, in The Islamic World (Routledge "Worlds" series) (to appear
2008)
·
Globalization and re-localization of Sufi
music in the West, to appear in Sufis in
the West (Routledge, 2008)
·
Music,
Nationalism, and the development of Egypt's phonogram industry: Muhammad Fawzy, Misrphon, and Sawt al-Qahira
(SonoCairo) (Asian
Music)
·
Mediated Qur’anic recitation
and the contestation of Islam in contemporary Egypt in Music and the Play of Power in the Middle East (Ashgate)
·
Spiritual Kinship and
Globalization, in Religious
Studies and Theology v. 22 #1 (2003)
·
Authorship
in Sufi Poetry, in Alif:
Journal of Comparative Poetics, #23: Intersections: Literature and the
Sacred (2003)
·
Some Meanings of the
Spanish Tinge in Contemporary Egyptian music, in
Mediterranean Mosaic, edited by Goffredo Plastino (in the series entitled
Perspectives on Global Pop, edited by Gage Averill; Routledge Publishing)
(2002).
·
“Musical transformations of time”.
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Human Interface
Technology, the University of Aizu, Japan (2002).
·
Changing
modalities in the globalization of Islamic saint veneration and mysticism: Sidi Ibrahim al-Dasuqi, Shaykh Muhammad
‘Uthman al-Burhani, and their Sufi Orders. Religious Studies and Theology, v. 20
nos. 1 & 2(2001).
·
Tarab in the Mystic
Sufi Chant of Egypt. In: Colors of
Enchantment: Visual and Performing
Arts of the Middle East , edited by Sherifa Zuhur. American University in Cairo Press,
2001.
·
Inshad Dini and Aghani Diniyya in 20th c Egypt : a review of styles, genres, and
available recordings
Bulletin of the Middle East Studies Association, Winter 2001. (Arabic translation: Wijhat
Nazar (Viewpoints), #35, vol. #3, December 2001, under the title: “al-inshad al-dini wa al-aghani
al-diniyya fi masr al-qarn al-‘ishrin”, pp. 68-72. Cairo : Egyptian Company for Arab and International
Publication.)
·
“Shaykh Yasin al-Tuhami: A typical layla performance”, Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, vol. 6
(2002).
· “al-Inshad
al-Dini (Islamic religious singing) in Egypt ”, Garland Encyclopedia of World
Music, vol. 6 (2002).
·
“The Magic of the Sufi Inshad: Sheikh Yasin al-Tuhami” (compact disc
liner notes). Paris: Long Distance, Real World Works, 1998.
· (with
Mina Rad) “Shaykh Yasin al-Tuhami.
Un monument incontournable”, Le
Monde de la musique, supplément:
Le festival d’automne célèbre
l’année France-Egypte 213,5.
Published
reviews:
·
Review of Music of Makran:
traditional fusion from coastal Balochistan. In Asian Music.
·
The Yemen Tihama: trance & dance music
from the Red Sea coast of Arabia , International Music Collection of the
British Library National Sound
Archive. Topic World Series, Topic
Records Ltd. TSCD920. (CD review). In Asian
Music.
·
(1) Soufis d'algerie: Mostaganem/Algeria: The Sufis of Mostaganem. 2003. Prophet Collection 31. Philips
472 503-2; (2) Chant soufi de Syrie:
Dhikr Qadiri Khalwati de la Zawiya Hilaliya, Alep /Sufi chanting from Syria :
Dhikr Qadiri Khalwati of the Zawiya Hilaliya, Aleppo . 2002. Maison des Cultures du Monde, Inedit W 260109. (3) Maroc: L'art du sama' a Fes/Morocco:
The Art of Sama' in Fez . 2002. Disques VDE-GALLO, VDE CD-1104. (CD reviews). In Yearbook of the
International Council for Traditional Music.
·
Review of Asmahan’s
Secrets: Woman, War, and Song (No. 13 in the Middle East Monograph Series (
Austin: UT Center for Middle
Eastern Studies, 2000), by Sherifa Zuhur), International
Journal of Middle East Studies (fall 2002).
Books
in process:
·
Sufism,
Ritual and Modernity in Egypt. Language Performance as an Adaptive Strategy
(Brill, to appear 2009).
·
Music
and Media in Contemporary Egypt
(edited collection of ~20 papers, by academics and critics from Egypt and
elsewhere. Based on proceedings of
conference, “Music and Television in Egypt”, convened 2004.)
·
The
sounds of Islam (survey of Islamic music)
Papers in process:
·
The influence of interdisciplinary
scholarship: theory and method” (under review)
·
Aesthetics, Mysticism, and Creativity (under
review)
·
The sounds of Islamic congregational prayer
Projects
in process:
·
VMCTM: Virtual Museum of Canadian Traditional
Music (funded by Canadian Heritage Information Network)
·
MuDoc (Music/Multimedia Documentation)
peer-reviewed federated world music web digital repository
·
Ewe music-poetry-dance: the Kinka drum of
Ghana (CD ROM)
Programs:
·
West African Music, Dance, Language, and
Culture: summer program in Ghana
Dissertation:
Sufism, Ritual, and
Modernity in Egypt: Language Performance as an Adaptive Strategy
(available fulltext via UMI)
Local
links:
Canadian
Centre for Ethnomusicology n FolkwaysAlive n FolkwaysAlive
wiki
Society for Arab Music Research (SAMR
- سامر)
n SAMR
wiki
Documentary videos for
teaching ethnomusicology n wiki
version