Jonathan Grasse, Ph.D.

Title: Professor, Music

Department: Music

Office: LCH A-323
Phone Extension: x2381
Email Username: jgrasse

Ethnomusicological Fieldwork and Research in Brazil (documentation/archival/study)

June-July, 2006, Belo Horizonte and Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais Interview with Lô Borges; videography of traditional Festa Junina musical troupe; videography of live choro ensemble as presented in the Festival Inverno (UFMG); videography of A Cia Dança Bata k a (Bata k a Dance Company) and the Irmandade de Os Arturos de Contagem both presented in Belo Horizonte as part of the 2006 Festival de Arte Negra (FAN)
December-January, 2002-03, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais and Salvador , Bahia Interviews, photographic documentation of popular and liturgical musics
December-January, 1999-2000, Belo Horizonte/Contagem, MG Visit to the Comunidade Os Arturos for rehearsals, interviews, and photographic documentation of congado and moçambique rehearsals
June-August, 1995, Discoteca Oneyda Alvarenga, São Paulo (Oneyda Alvarenga municipal music archive of the city of São Paulo ) Meeting with Jose Eduardo Azevedo for Ry k odisc/Library of Congress CD project. This wor k ac k nowledged in CD liner notes to The Library of Congress/Endangered Music Project: The Discoetca Collection, Missão de Pesquisas Folclóricas (RCD 10403, 1997)
December-January, 1992-93, Belo Horizonte , MG Municipal library/archive search for congado materials; interview with regional historian Waldmir Barbosa