NEWS – Anthropology of Music

August 23, 2024

Globalwize Radioshow #454

We are excited to present you episode #454 of the Globalwize Radioshow. WeltBeat host and selector Jean Trouillet's presents another 'African Presence' special in cooperation with Hauke Dorsch, director of the African Music Archives at the University of Mainz. The new episode focusses on the history of African popular music.

July 4, 2024

Globalwize Radioshow #449

We are excited to present you episode #449 of WeltBeat host and selector Jean Trouillet's far-reaching broadcasts, another 'African Presence' special in cooperation with Hauke Dorsch, director of the African Music Archives at the University of Mainz. The show offers an introduction to the music of Tanzania by special guest, Prof. Dr. Imani Sanga.

July 4, 2024

Globalwize Radioshow #447

Show #447 of WeltBeat host and selector Jean Trouillet's far-reaching Globalwize format happens to be another 'African Presence' special broadcast. Recorded in the Bali Bistro in February 2024, this edition of the Globalwize Radioshow features the African Music Archives' (AMA) latest 'Artist in Residence' Eric '1key' Ngangare.

June 6, 2024

Listening Beyond Landscape: Air, Water, Rubble

Starting on Wednesday, June 26, 5 pm at the AMA Lounge (Central Library), Prof. Martin Stokes from Kings College London presents his three lectures on "Listening beyond landscape".

November 6, 2023

Professor Martin Stokes

Martin Stokes is King Edward Professor of Music at King's College London. He studied music and social anthropology at Oxford and taught at the Queen's University of Belfast (1989-1997), the University of Chicago (1997-2007) and Oxford University (2007-2012) before joining King's College London.

February 13, 2024

AoM LS/MC 2024: Listening beyond Landscape

In the series of three public lectures, I will discuss both recent and ancient thinking about water and its relationship to landscape, cities and human life, focusing on my recent research along the Euphrates.

February 14, 2024

Call for Papers – AoM LS/MC 2024

We are happy to invite applications to the 4th edition of the Anthropology of Music Lecture Series and Master Class (AoM–LS/MC) at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies (ifeas), Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz.

February 23, 2021

Da spielt die Musik!

Tonträger im allgemeinen, aber besonders die frühen Formate, also v.a. Schellackplatten, vermitteln einen Einblick in den Musikkonsum in afrikanischen Ländern während der jeweiligen historischen Epochen, über den nur wenige alltagshistorische Studien vorliegen.

May 17, 2024

05.06.2024 – Concert: Ralah’ Trio (Madagascar)

On 5 June 2024, the AMA will host a concert by the Madagascan band "Ralah' Trio", a collaboration resulting from the AoM project "Improvising Culture. Jazz in Madagascar". For the first time in Germany, the Ralah' Trio will present their vision of Madagascar in the (music) world.