February 14, 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
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.
January 29, 2024
Globalwize presents another end-of-the-week special on Greedio with the latest 'African Presence' broadcast by Weltbeat host/selector Jean Trouillet and his studio guests Hauke Dorsch (African Music Archive) and Bulgarian-German writer Ilija Trojanow.
December 7, 2023
Seit Beginn des Wintersemesters 2023/24 ist sie da: die AMA-Lounge - direkt neben den neuen Räumlichkeiten in der Universitätsbibliothek. Am 18. Januar 2024 gibt AMA-Direktor Hauke Dorsch hier eine kleine Einführung im Rahmen der UB-"Denkpause": Die Kora - Musikinstrument der Griots Westafrikas.
December 11, 2023
On January 10th 2024, the AMA will host a solo Saz performance by Anatolian folk musician Derya Yıldırım. Following Derya’s performance, Şebnem Altunkaya, PhD candidate at ifeas, and Derya Yıldırım will hold a panel discussion on folk music(s) of Anatolia
November 7, 2023
For this latest instalment of the Globalwize radio show, duly titled "IslandBreeze", Kathrin Thomas takes us on a two-hour tour of the Indian Ocean, focussing on music from the islands of Mauritius, the Seychelles and the Comoros.
November 6, 2023
Together with the Globalwize radio show host and selector Jean Trouillet, AMA's director Hauke Dorsch and PhD student Tom Simmert introduce Nonku Phiri from South Africa and Sharon Onyango-Obbo from Uganda/Kenya in #430 of this Podcast.
November 6, 2023
A short video with statements by participants of the international workshop “Copyright, CARE and African Music Archives: Tensions between Artists’ Interests and the Repatriation of Music”, is now available online.