Pitt Rivers Collection: The rainforest music of the BayAka
The hauntingly beautiful music of the BayAka people, and their deep and abiding relationship to the rainforest in the Central African Republic.
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Colours of memory: a conversation with Geoff Dyer
This podcast was presented and produced by Jo Barratt This year marks 25 years since the publication of Geoff Dyer’s first novel, The Colour of Memory. Geoff is a multi-award winning writer who has written 4 novels and is also…
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Ethnomusicology is the study of music in culture, and music as culture. Whether it is gamelan, techno, Bollywood or English folk ethnomusicologists want to understand the music – and the society that made it.
MorePitt Rivers Collection: Reel to Real
The Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford has hours of music from thousands of cultures all over the world. Ethnomusicologist Noel Lobley explains how the music, some recorded on silver foil 100 years ago, is being curated.
MoreThe Library of Cynicism – multi-sensory art exhibtion
Audio-visual art is familiar, but the audio-olfactory is surprising. Oswaldo Maciá explains why he uses sound and smell to construct knowledge in his exhibition The Library of Cynicism at CHELSEA space until July 20th.
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To celebrate National Walking Month (May 2013), Pod Academy finds out about nightwalking in London from Medieval times to the Romantics.
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In the nineteenth century, dramatic discoveries and new theories were turning the world upside-down. And much of this groundbreaking scientific research was conducted, at home, by scientific families like the Herschels.
MoreLeft-handedness
Left-handedness is certainly an everyday phenomenon. We all probably know somebody who writes with their left hand or possibly do so ourselves. But how often do we pause to think about what might be the cause of such a preference…
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The invention and reception of change ringing in seventeenth-century England…
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