Caroline Bithell
Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology and Arts Management
School of Arts, Histories and Cultures
Tel: 0161 275-3346
Email: caroline.bithell@manchester.ac.uk
Research Profile
Caroline Bithell is Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology and Arts Management at the University of Manchester and Chair of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology. With an academic background in music, social anthropology, and modern and medieval languages, she holds degrees from the universities of Oxford and Wales. Before joining the staff at Manchester in September 2005, she held a lecturing post at the University of Wales, Bangor.
My main teaching and research specialism is Ethnomusicology (the study of world music cultures from both a musicological and an anthropological perspective), with Arts Management as a second string to my bow.
While the Mediterranean island of Corsica has been the main focus of my fieldwork to date, my research projects have also taken me to Sardinia, Malta, Bosnia, the Republic of Georgia and Mali.
Supervision Areas
- Ethnomusicology: history, theory and methodology
- The US folk revival
- Music in the Community
Relevant Publications
- Bithell, C. (2007) Transported by Song: Corsican Voices from Oral Tradition to World Stage , The Scarecrow Press, Lanham, 387, 0-8108-5938-6
- Bithell, C. (Forthcoming) 'Singing Out Of Other Throats: Performing Corsican Polyphony From The Outside In', The Musical Anthropology of the Mediterranean: Interpretation, Performance, Identity , Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria Editrice Bologna, Bologna
- Bithell, C. (2008) 'A Song of Many Colours: Musical Hybridity in Corsica', The Human World and Musical Diversity, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia
- Bithell, C. (2008) 'Praisesong to the Ancestors and the Post-new Nuclear Family', The New (Ethno)musicologies, Scarecrow Press, Lanham
- Bithell, C. (2005) 'Anchors and Sails: Music and Culture Contact in Corsica', The Mediterranean in Music: Critical Perspectives, Common Concerns, Cultural Differences, The Scarecrow Press, Lanham, 155-177, 0-8108-5407-4
- Bithell, C. (2003) 'Shared Imaginations: Celtic and Corsican Encounters in the Soundscape of the Soul', Celtic Modern: Music at the Global Fringe, The Scarecrow Press, Lanham, 27-72, 0810847817
- Bithell, C. (2006) 'The Past in Music: Introduction', Ethnomusicology Forum, Vol.15/1, 3-16
- Bithell, C. (1996) 'Polyphonic Voices: National Identity, World Music and the Recording of Traditional Music in Corsica', The British Journal of Ethnomusicology, Vol.5, 39-66
- Bithell, C. (2006) 'The Past in Music', Special themed issue of journal Ethnomusicology Forum including introduction and article by myself; remaining contributions commissioned and edited by myself. , Routledge, Vol.15/1, 176, 1741-1912