I tried to get my Hawaiian music news site “NahenaheNet” listed, and received a reply from Google that they could not include it because it included links to “outside” sites. Duh, isn’t that part of what a weblog does?
British Council USA.
With my Ph.d. abroad options seemingly down to Sheffield and Queen’s University Belfast, the British Council USA’s site seems to be a great resource for information on purusing my Ph.d. in the U.K. Lot’s of great information and a scholarship database for foreign students interested in study in the U.K.
Google Scholar.
This looks like a great concept; we’ll have to see how valuable it really is. A lot of scholarly material is locked up in the UMI ProQuest databases and I doubt that Google will be able to gain access to much more than the abstracts of these papers, if even that. I found one of my papers cited a few times, including two Spanish language entries. Interesting! I chose not to submit my MA thesis to UMI. Something about me paying them to include it so they could turn around and sell copies of it bothered me. I posted it…
Fortnight has a wonderful interview with Irish poet Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill.
One of her more interesting observations is that ‘the shift from Irish to English unleashed madness throughout the population…..the emotions were stuck in Irish and didn’t make it through to English. So their emotions would burst out in a totally inappropriate way over totally inappropriate things.’
Ethnomusic Ph.d at Queen’s University Belfast?
I got a very nice reply to my email inquiry to the anthropology department at Queen’s University Belfast. They have a Ph.d. program in ethnomusicology, and while their normal program (1 year at QUB, 1 year field research, 1 year of writing at QUB) wouldn’t work for me, there is a possiblity of making alternative arrangements. I’m hoping to meet with some of their faculty at the “ITCM” conference in Sheffield next summer, and, if the opportunity presents itself, to visit the campus on that trip. Stay tuned. If anyone reading this has any thoughts on QUB or the ethnomusicology…
Smoking Ban?
This story suggests there is far more to the woes of Ireland’s pubs than the recent smoking ban.
Twilight of the Celts.
This is an article from the Belfast Telgraph written by the author of “The Last of the Celts” regarding his odyssey through regions where Gaelic was a prominent, if not the dominant, language. It also features some statistics documenting the decline of the Gaelic languages in Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, Patagonia, the Isle of Man, Cornwall and Cape Breton.
SaveGaelic.org website.
I tend to focus on the Irish flavor of Gaelic, but came across this interesting site that is championing the revitalization of Scottish Gaelic. Very nicely done website as well.
‘The Last of the Celts’ sounds like a book I need to read.
A freelance writer and journalist goes on a search for ancestral graves, and traverses the parts of Europe where Gaelic languages are still spoken. Sounds fascinating.
I’ll be doing a presentation on our online classes at the SWALLT conference on O’ahu the weekend after Thanksgiving.
I’m a member of SWALLT and have gone to several of the DigitalStream conferences that are held at CSU-Monterey Bay each spring, but missed this year’s conference.