The deadline for the 2025 Fieldwork Grants scheme is midnight UK time next Monday, 10th Feb - research students doing fieldwork, please do consider applying! For more information on eligibility and the applications process, visit the BFE website: bfe.org.uk/bfe-fieldwork-gra…

Dear BFE friends, please read our statement of objection to the proposed closure of the School of Music at Cardiff University: bfe.org.uk/news/statement-pr…

The British Forum for Ethnomusicology (BFE) is pleased to announce the opening of the 2025 Fieldwork Grants scheme! For more information on eligibility and how to apply, visit the BFE website: bfe.org.uk/bfe-fieldwork-gra…

Huge congratulations to Dr Matthew Machin-Autenreith, who has been awarded a prestigious prize by SEM for the co-edited book Music and the Making of Portugal and Spain: Nationalism and Identity Politics in the Iberian Peninsula! bfe.org.uk/news/bfe-member-m…

Registration is now open for the 2024 BFE Autumn Conference! This event will take place online via Microsoft Teams and admission is free, but it is essential that all participants register to attend via Eventbrite: eventbrite.co.uk/e/bfe-autum…

We are thrilled to announce that the next BFE Annual Conference will be hosted by the University of Cambridge and will be held 3-6 April 2025! To see the Call For Papers, visit the conference website: bfeconference2025.wordpress.…

For the first issue of its 2025 volume, the BFE's journal Ethnomusicology Forum will launch an Editors Forum! For more details, visit the BFE website: bfe.org.uk/news/editors-foru…

Happening today! In the aftermath of war, creative practices enable the navigation of (non-)belongings. ‘(In)Visible Publics: Performing (Non-)Belonging’, proudly supported by the BFE: eventbrite.ie/e/invisible-pu…..

Huge congratulations to this year’s BFE Fieldwork Grant recipients, Jiaxi Xie and Edda Starck! We wish them the very best of luck with their research. To find out more about their projects, visit the BFE website: bfe.org.uk/bfe-fieldwork-gra…

The British Forum for Ethnomusicology has written to the Warden of Goldsmiths, University of London to express concern regarding proposed cuts to music teaching and staff. For more information, visit the BFE website: bfe.org.uk/news/bfe-statemen…

Submissions are now open for the 2025 RAI Film Festival! Click here to find out about the BFE-sponsored Ethnomusicology Film Award: bfe.org.uk/bfe-rai-ethnomusi…

We are thrilled to announce a new episode in our Student Podcast series! Our fourth student podcast comes from Fulvia Torricelli and is called 'Pagani per tre giorni". Check out Fulvia's wonderful episode here: on.soundcloud.com/982fN

We are delighted to announce that registration is now open for the for the BFE-ICTM Ireland joint 2024 annual conference at University College Cork! You can register for the conference here: conference.ucc.ie/british-fo…

A huge thanks to everyone for making the 2024 BFE-RMA Research Students' Conference a success! Take a look at the fantastic conference report by PhD researcher George Speck: bfe.org.uk/bfe-rma-research-…

The BFE invites expressions of interest for a new Conference Liaison Officer! For more details, see this page of the BFE website: bfe.org.uk/news/call-new-bfe…

We are thrilled to announce the publication of the book by former BFE chairperson Carole Pegg! “Drones, Tones, and Timbres: Sounding Place among Nomads of the Inner Asian Mountain-Steppes” is now available from the University of Illinois Press website: press.uillinois.edu/books/?i…

BFE member Razia Sultanova is delighted to announce the publication of a new book "Afghanistan Dispossessed: Women, Culture and the Taliban" (Pen & Sword History, 2023)! For more information, check this page of the BFE website: bfe.org.uk/news/bfe-member-r…