Contact
Secondary Phone: (780) 492-0225
Fax: 780-482-0242
Department of Music
University of Alberta
3-82 Fine Arts Building
Edmonton AB T6G 2C9
Canada
ABOUT
Michael Frishkopf, Professor of Music at the University of Alberta, is an ethnomusicologist and composer. A graduate of Yale College (BS Mathematics, 1984), Tufts University (MA Ethnomusicology, 1989), and the University of California, Los Angeles (Ph.D. Music, 1999), Dr. Frishkopf’s ethnomusicological research interests include the Arab music industry; Sufi music; sound in Islamic ritual performance; music and religion; comparative music theory; the sociology of musical taste; social network analysis; (virtual [world) music]; digital music repositories; music information retrieval; music in West Africa; participatory action research; psychoacoustics and music cognition; music and global health; and music for global human development.
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
African Studies
Arab Studies
Ethnography
Ethnomusicology
Islamic Studies
Islamic Thought
Media
Middle East/Near East Studies
Music
Mysticism/Sufi Studies
Pop Culture
Geographic Areas of Interest
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
All Middle East
Arab States
Egypt
Islamic World
Specialties
Arab Audio-Visual Mass Media
Popular Music Industry
Sufi & Islamic Ritual
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
French (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 1999
| Ethnomusicology
| UCLA
MA
| 1989
| Music
| Tufts University
BA
| 1984
| Mathematics
| Yale
Abstracts
Towards an anthropology of musical silence: the sound of reformist Islam in the Middle East and its diasporas
Exploring Cairo’s informal popular music archives: An Actor-Network Theory (auto)ethnography
Egyptian Radio and Musical Collaboration: Applying Social Network Analysis towards a Deeper Understanding of Egypt’s Musical History
