Research Output per year
Research Output per year
Personal profile
Research Interests
Michael Silvers is an ethnomusicologist and a specialist in Brazilian music and ecomusicology (the study of music and the environment). His research interests also include sound studies, music and technology, cultural sustainability, and music, gender, and sexuality.
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Research Output
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Attending to the Nightingale: On a Multispecies Ethnomusicology
Silvers, M. B., 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Ethnomusicology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Film Review: These C*cksucking Tears
Silvers, M. B., 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Ethnomusicology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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Voices of Drought: The Politics of Music and Environment in Northeastern Brazil
Silvers, M. B., Oct 2018, Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 212 p.Research output: Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book
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Birdsong and a Song about a Bird: Popular Music and the Mediation of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Northeastern Brazil
Silvers, M. B., Jan 1 2017, Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader. Post, J. C. (ed.). Taylor and Francis, Vol. II. p. 127-140 14 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Forró Music and the São Francisco River: Singing the Margins of National Integration
Silvers, M. B., 2017.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
Activities
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ISAMS Professional Development Colloquium
Michael B Silvers (Participant)
2013Activity: Attendance types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Ethnomusicology Review (Journal)
Michael B Silvers (Advisory board member)
2013 → …Activity: Editorial work types › Editorial activity
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Ethnomusicology Review (External organization)
Michael B Silvers (Member)
2013 → …Activity: Membership types › Membership of board
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Northeast by Southeast: Brazilian Regional Music
Michael B Silvers (Participant)
2016Activity: Attendance types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Popular Music and the Mediation of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Northeastern Brazil
Michael B Silvers (Speaker)
Sep 17 2014Activity: Talk types › Invited talk
Press / Media
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Illinois music professor awarded Carnegie Fellowship
4/24/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
Honors & Recognition
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Honorable Mention, Faculty Prize for Research in the Humanities
Silvers, Michael B (Recipient), 2016
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