MMaP Research Centre

Join us for an evening of folk songs and stories, drawing on the rich traditions of Newfoundland and Labrador. Tickets are $25 ($20 students) and are available at the door or in advance via info@singsonginc.ca.

Join us for an evening of folk songs and stories, drawing on the rich traditions of Newfoundland and Labrador. Tickets are $25 ($20 students) and are available at the door or in advance via info@singsonginc.ca.

Join us for an evening of folk songs and stories, drawing on the rich traditions of Newfoundland and Labrador. Tickets are $25 ($20 students) and are available at the door or in advance via info@singsonginc.ca.

Join us for an evening of folk songs and stories, drawing on the rich traditions of Newfoundland and Labrador. Tickets are $25 ($20 students) and are available at the door or in advance via info@singsonginc.ca.

Join us for an evening of folk songs and stories, drawing on the rich traditions of Newfoundland and Labrador. Tickets are $25 ($20 students) and are available at the door or in advance via info@singsonginc.ca.

Congratulations to #MUNEthnomusicology assistant professor Dr. Luis Achondo, who is the co-recipient of the 2026 British Forum for Ethnomusicology Book prize for his monograph "The Sounds of Aguante: Politics of Fandom in South American Football!" bfe.org.uk/bfe-book-prize

The World Cup may be over, but the research continues! Read about #MUNEthnomusicology assistant professor Dr. Luis Achondo's work on the intersection between sound and soccer in the MUN Gazette. gazette.mun.ca/research/sou...

Congratulations to MA student (Ethnomusicology) Linus Glaesemer on being co-awarded the 2025 Student Paper Prize from the @Canadian Society for Traditional Music for his paper "Quiet Labor: Beatmakers, Vernacular Theory, and the Politics of Inaudibility,” presented at the 2025 Virtual Conference!

Available Now on the MMaP YouTube Channel! Dr. Philip Ewell's Music and Culture Lecture "Blacksplaining Classical Music in the Twenty-First Century."

Congratulations to #MUNEthnomusicology student Andrina Cockerham of her presentation "Sounding Climate Care: Music, Protest, and Belonging in St. John's Climate Movements" at the 2026 Equity, Diversity, inclusion, and Anti-Racism Conference Memorial University!

Now available: Soundscapes from the Archives: Collecting for the Future! Enjoy this celebration of the Memorial University Folklore and Language Archive. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpT6...


Check out the new website Axesfortheallies.ca! This bilingual website features in-depth discussions of the contributions made by Newfoundland and Labradorian wood workers during wartime. Featuring songs, stories, archival materials, timelines and learning materials for educational use.

If you're in St. John's Newfoundland, join us April 25 at 7:30 pm for an evening of traditional folk music and stories that go beyond the standard repertoire!

Join us for Dr. Philip Ewell's Music and Culture lecture, "Blacksplaining Classical Music in the Twenty-First Century." This lecture will be publicly live-streamed at the MMaP YouTube Chanel: www.youtube.com/live/DQAAXF8... For more info, please visit www.mun.ca/mmap/live-ev...

Meet #MUNEthnomusicology student Reid Orphan! Reid research video game music, gamelan, and Newfoundland folk music. He is also a composer for the work-in-progress Skyrim mod Esroniet: Domain of Lost Unity, where he specializes in integrating East and Southeast Asian musical traditions.

Congratulations to Professor Emerita Dr. Beverley Diamond and her co-editor Dr. Jonathan P.J. Stock on winning the Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology for The Routledge Companion to Ethics and Research in Ethnomusicology, published in 2024!

Meet #MUNEthnomusicology student Kate McCann! Kate hails from New England, graduating from Bennington College in 2014 with a BA in music and anthropology. In addition to writing her own songs, Kate is active in folk music communities. Kate's research focuses on sea shanties and ballad singing.

Congratulations to #MUNEthnomusicology Glenn Patterson for successfully defending his PhD thesis! Supervisor: Bev Diamond (Music) Committee Members: Meghan Forsyth (Music) and Jillian Gould (folklore) Internal Examiner: Luis Achondo (Music) Exam Chair: Scott MacLaughlan (Math)

Now Streaming! MMaP's Music and Culture lecture from Dr. Inderjit Kaur! In "Sensational Journeys: Embodiment in the Time of Aura in Sikh Musical Worship," Dr Kaur discusses the transportive sensations that arise during musical worship at the Golden Temple.

Suffering from the winter blahs? Cheer up with more selections from our Winter 2025 Good as a Concert performance with Eleanor Dawson, Anita Best, Matthew Byrne, and Jenna Maloney.

This summer, #MunEthnomusicology student Andrina worked as the events assistant for Neighbourhood Dance works, helping to launch St. John's very first Vertical Dance Week. Andrina is continuing to work with NDW for their upcoming Festival of New Dance. Keep up the good work, Andrina!

MA student in ethnomusicology Linus Glaesemer is conducting his summer research in Bamberg, Germany, focusing on 1980s’ nostalgia and revivalist aesthetics in the contemporary Neue Neue Dutsche Welle (New New German Wave) scene. Way to go, Linus!

Now Live! Selections from Good as a Concert, Songs for all Souls, Part 1! Featuring Pamela Morgan, Maria Peddle, Graham Wells, Catherine Wright and Jim Payne. 
 Watch is now on our YouTube page by following this link! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mi7...

PhD Candidate Edwin Mansook is currently doing his fieldwork on masquerade traditions in Guyana. His participant-action research was recently featured in an article in the Guyana Chronicle. Congratulations, Edwin!

MMaP is delighted to announce that #MUNEthnomusicology student Arsalan Pareyal, has been appointed Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of Comparative Humanities and Interim Director of the Centre for South Asian Music at Habib University in Karachi, Pakistan. Congratulations, Arsalan!

PhD Candidate Edwin Mansook is currently doing his fieldwork on masquerade traditions in Guyana. His participant-action research was recently featured in an article in the Guyana Chronicle. Check it out here: guyanachronicle.com/2025/07/08/r.... Congratulations, Edwin!

Now Streaming! In his talk, "Streaming Virtuosities: Media Structures, Accelerated Fandom, and Alienation by Volume," Dr. VanderHamm explores how our online experiences of musical virtuosity are mediated by the digital platforms on which we consume them. Watch now on MMAP's Youtube Channel!

Tomorrow evening!

Tomorrow!