April 21, 2005: Headlines: COS - Chile: Music: Florida Flambeau: RPCV Dale A. Olsen performed as principal flutist in the Philharmonic Orchestra of Chile in the late 1960s, and has conducted fieldwork throughout South America, Asia, Polynesia and elsewhere around the world
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April 21, 2005: Headlines: COS - Chile: Music: Florida Flambeau: RPCV Dale A. Olsen performed as principal flutist in the Philharmonic Orchestra of Chile in the late 1960s, and has conducted fieldwork throughout South America, Asia, Polynesia and elsewhere around the world
RPCV Dale A. Olsen performed as principal flutist in the Philharmonic Orchestra of Chile in the late 1960s, and has conducted fieldwork throughout South America, Asia, Polynesia and elsewhere around the world
RPCV Dale A. Olsen performed as principal flutist in the Philharmonic Orchestra of Chile in the late 1960s, and has conducted fieldwork throughout South America, Asia, Polynesia and elsewhere around the world
College of Music professors win fellowships
Two professors take home prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships
Florida Flambeau
Tallahassee, Fla.
April 21, 2005
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Two professors from Florida State University's College of Music have won 2005-06 Guggenheim Memorial Fellowships that will enable them to pursue research and complete special projects in their respective fields.
FSU holds a prominent place in this year's distinguished Guggenheim contingent. Out of 186 new U.S. and Canadian Fellows, FSU ethnomusicologist Dale A. Olsen and electroacoustic composer Mark Wingate together comprise one-third of the recipients that were selected from musicians at numerous universities.
"The Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship is one of the most prestigious awards an individual can receive, and to have two music faculty members from the same university receive a Guggenheim in the same year is almost unheard of," College of Music Dean Jon R. Piersol said.
Each year, the competitive fellowships are awarded to advanced professionals in the United States, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean to promote work in the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and creative arts.
As FSU's Distinguished Research Professor of Ethnomusicology and director of the Center for Music of the Americas, Olsen will use his fellowship for research in Vietnam and the completion of a book tentatively titled Farewell to the Past! Popular and Pop/Rock Music, Memory Politics and Willed Amnesia in Vietnam. As former director of FSU's Vietnam International Summer Program, Olsen spent the summers of 2002 and 2004 in Vietnam. The Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship will enable him to spend summer 2005 and spring 2006 in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi.
Olsen earned his doctorate from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1973. A former Peace Corps volunteer in Santiago, Chile, he performed as principal flutist in the Philharmonic Orchestra of Chile in the late 1960s, and has conducted fieldwork throughout South America, Asia, Polynesia and elsewhere around the world. He has received funding for research and performance from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright, Japan Foundation and FSU, and has authored more than 100 publications, including his most recent book, The Chrysanthemum and the Song: Music, Memory, and Identity in the South American Japanese Diaspora, published in December 2004.
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