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Dennis Waring, Ph.D. playing the mbira Dr.
Waring is in a lineage that traces back to the pioneering
anthropologists, Erich Von Hornbostel and Franz Boas (1858-1942).
Boas' interest in music as culture brought others such as George Herzog
on board. George Herzog, in turn taught David McAllester (Wesleyan
University Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Ethnomusicology and a
founder of the Society of Ethnomusicology). And Dr. Waring was privileged
to be one of the last doctoral students of Professor McAllester before
his retirement in the early 1990s.
Over the years, Dr. Waring has gradually amassed his many endeavors under the name of Waring Music. One facet of this
conglomerate organization is ethnomusicology. Ethnomusicology is the scholarly study of
all the world's musics, each within their social, historical,
geographical, and cultural contexts. Scholars normally have specialties within the ethnomusicology continuum. In this regard, Dr. Waring possesses
a broad based knowledge of world music, and is an authority on music of
the USA, a specialist in areas of African and Latin American, an
organologist (the scholarly study of musical instruments), and an
instrument maker. Waring Music is an educational organization involved with "public
ethnomusicology" through publishing, performing, teaching,
composing, and providing access to resources for information, services,
and products. Do you need a special music for a particular occasion? Would
you like to speak to an authority to confer about an unusual instrument or
to check out a bit of folklore? Do you need information about where to
find ethnic instruments, quality recordings, or other educational media?
Would you like to know where to attend a concert or festival of another
country's music? Waring Music can either answer your questions or help you
find a source that will have the answer. Related services such as
instrument repair, custom instrument making, a recording and multimedia
studio for small projects are also available through Waring Music. Waring Music headquarters is well situated for access to academic
information, facts about music, and musicians from around the world.
Middletown, Connecticut is nestled in the rolling woods of Southern New
England, halfway between New York City and Boston, and halfway between
Hartford and New Haven. Its proximity to universities such as Yale,
Wesleyan, Brown and many other private and state colleges make for a high
density of talent and resource. Wesleyan University in Middletown, in
fact, is one of the pioneering universities in ethnomusicology and
continues to offer one of the best graduate programs for the field in the
world. Website created by Susan Rosano |
