Schippers, Huib
Former Staff
In over four decades of professional engagement with music, I have become and remained passionate about what music does as an expression of individual and shared identities, and as a profound reflection of our shared humanity. My curiosity has led me to research and publish on a wide range of topics including cultural diversity, arts policy, music education, artistic research, organizational change, community music, and cultural sustainability.
Positions
- Director/Curator Smithsonian Folkways, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage 2016 -
Geographic Focus
- India Country
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
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Book
- Place, Jeff, Schippers, Huib, Seeger, Anthony, Sonneborn, D. Atesh, and Wong, Deborah A. 2019. The Social Power of Music. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Folkways. 2019
- Captive Audiences: Creative Approaches to Performing Arts in Prison 2018
- Sustainable futures for music cultures: an ecological perspective 2016
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Chapter
- Community music: Contexts, dynamics and sustainability. 23-42. 2018
- Unlocked: Poetry as a key to engaging inmates 2018
- Two decades of artistic research: The antipodal experience. 161-173. 2017
- Approaching Music Cultures as Ecosystems: A Dynamic Model for Understanding and Supporting Sustainability. 333-351. 2016
- Hindustani Music: Resilience and Flexibility in Recontextualizing an Ancient Tradition. 77-110. 2016
Presentations
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Invited Talk
- Cultural ecosystems: A dynamic approach to sustaining India's rich cultural heritage, Keynote, Jaipur Virasat Foundation at the Jaipur Literature Festival, Jaipur, India 2018
- How do we keep music alive? Music sustainability, ecology, and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, Speaker, Intangible Cultural Heritage Research and Development Centre, Beijing, China 2017
- Music education and social inclusion, Keynote, ICTM Music, Education and Social Inclusion conference. School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 2017
- Applied ethnomusicology and sustaining intangible cultural heritage, Keynote, Ecology and Music, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia 2015
- Ecology and music research in the twenty-first century, Keynote, Sustaining Heritage, Performance and Education, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, Perak, Malaysia 2014
- Facing the Music: Cultural diversity, musical ecosystems and the place of music education, Keynote, Research in Music Education Conference, Exeter, UK 2011
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