Cambridge Gamelan performing wayang kulit (shadow puppet theatre) with Pak Bagus Baghaskoro Wisnu Murti
Global Humanities
We are delighted to announce that the Music Faculty has received funding from the University’s Global Humanities Initiative to support a number of new and ongoing projects related to global musicology, understood broadly. These projects will span the next two academic years and include:
- a podcast project on global musical traditions, produced by Min Yen Ong and Myles Eastwood
- a seminar on global musicology, to be co-convened by Ben Walton and Peter McMurray (in 2021-22)
- visiting performers, both as part of the Faculty’s Practising Performance series organised by Maggie Faultless and as freestanding events to be announced in due course
- support for existing ensembles devoted to non-Western repertoires, including the Cambridge Gamelan Society and the Cambridge University Chinese Orchestra
- a workshop on global media histories to be organised jointly with the Centre for Film and Screen
We look forward to sharing more details in due course.