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A. J. Racy Fellowship for Arab Music Studies

A Turath.org grant for scholarly research in the field of Arab Music

Thomas Burkhalter (Univ. of Bern, Switzerland) Wins 2008

A. J. Racy Fellowship for Arab Music Studies

for: Hearing Beirut – Reflections About Alternative Localities in a Globalized World

Previous Recipients:

2007: Brian Karl (Columbia University PhD candidate) for Musical Practices in Northern Morocco and Southern Spain

2004: Laith Ulaby, a graduate student and PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His proposal is titled: "Performing the Past; Music and Ritual in the Pearl Diving Communities of the Arabian Gulf"

2003: Kenneth Habib, a graduate student at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interest is Fairuz and the Rahbani Brohters.

2002: Guilnard Moufarrej, a graduate student and PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her winning proposal research topic, for which she will spend on year in Lebanon is: Music and ritual in Maronite funerals.

2001: Anne Elise Thomas, a graduate student and PhD Candidate in Ethnomusicology at Brown University. Her winning proposal's research topic, for which she will spend one year in Jordan, is: Transmission of Musical Heritage: Youth Education in Arab Music at the National Music Conservatory in Amman, Jordan.

2000: Yara Al-Ghadban, a graduate student at the Faculty of Music, Sector of Ethnomusicology, the University of Montreal, Canada. Her winning proposal's research topic is: In Search of the Homeland in the Song and Dance of Palestinian Refugees.

2000: James Grippo, a graduate student at University of California, Santa Barbara. His proposed research topic is: Negotiating Identity, Music, and Community Among the Arab-American Diaspora in San Francisco.

1999: Kathleen A. Hood, a Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology at UCLA and a cello player with the Long Beach Philharmonic Orchestra. Her proposed field work in Syria is on: Druze Wedding Songs - Music and Collective Memory.

Applicants should:

1. Mail an application containing the information listed below to be received before the end of June
2. Arrange for one letter of recommendation, preferably from a faculty advisor, to be received no later than 15 June
3. Include 1000-word proposal for project or activity to be funded.
4. The selection will be announced in August (unless there is a reason for delay which would be communicated to applicants)
5. Amount of financial award is communicated to applicants or inquirers (always seek to raise amount by raising funds)

Required Application Information: Full legal name, full address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail address, academic affiliation, all degrees and grade point average, honors, awards, publications, advisor's name and address, project title, total expected expenses, other potential funding sources, names and addresses of contacts in the destination country or travel location, and signature. Applications should be mailed to:

Turath - Racy Fellowship for Arab Music Studies
P.O. Box 1107
La Canada, California 91012-1107
USA

Turath-Racy Fellowship news in An-Nahar Newspaper featuring Fulbright Recipient Guilnard Moufarrej