One of the main objectives of the UNESCO/Norway Funds-in-Trust
Project “Ethiopia – Traditional Music, Dance and Instruments”
is to contribute to the training of Ethiopian students to create
an environment in which Ethiopian music and dance traditions will
continue to be identified, inventoried and recorded.
The ongoing intermediate-level course will include the pilot activity
“Musical Landscape of Addis Ababa”, which aims at providing
Ethiopian students with fieldwork experience in identifying and
documenting traditional music and dance expressions in the capital
city.
This intermediate-level course is a follow-up to the two introductory
courses on “Ethnomusicology in Ethiopia” organized by
UNESCO in 2006. For these courses, UNESCO developed a set of materials
including syllabuses, articles and DVDs containing three lectures.
The course takes place at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, at
Addis Ababa University and is led by an instructor from Harvard
University (USA). Participants include graduate students from Addis
Ababa University, representatives from five regional cultural bureaux,
the Ethiopian National Archive and Library Agency, and individual
experts.
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