Dr. Dale A. Olsen
CITIZENSHIP
United States of America
MARITAL STATUS
Married to M. Diane Olsen (Ph.D., Instructional Design); one son, Darin M. Olsen
EDUCATIONAL TRAINING and DEGREES
1959 Diploma, Albert Lea High School, Albert Lea, Minnesota.
1964 B.A. in Music (Music History and Flute Performance), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
1966 M.A. in Music (Historical Musicology and Flute Performance), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
1973 Ph.D. in Music (Ethnomusicology), University of California, Los Angeles.
1981 Shihan in Japanese Kinko-ryû shakuhachi (professional name, Olsen Bai-ô), awarded by Iwami Baikyoku V, São Paulo, Brazil
EMPLOYMENT
1956-1961 Professional musician (Albert Lea, Minnesota, Musician’s Union member) on clarinet and saxophone.
1961-1966 Professional musician (Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, Musician’s Union member) on clarinet, saxophone, flute and piccolo.
1965-1966 Flute Instructor, MacPhail School of Music, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1966-1968 Peace Corps Volunteer, Santiago, Chile. Positions: Principal flutist with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Chile, Instructor of Music at the University of Chile, Ethnomusicologist with the Chilean Government.
1969 Professional musician (Chicago, Illinois, Musician’s Union member) on flute and piccolo.
1969 Second Flutist, Grant Park Symphony Orchestra, Chicago, Illinois.
1969-1970 Assistant Professor of Flute, Arkansas Polytechnic College, Russellville.
1970-1973 Professional musician (Los Angeles, California, Musician’s Union member) on flute.
1972-1973 Teaching Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles.
1973-1978 Assistant Professor, School of Music, The Florida State University, Tallahassee.
1977-1989 Visiting Professor of Ethnomusicology, Center for Latin American Studies and Center for African Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida (summers).
1978-1983 Associate Professor, School of Music, The Florida State University, Tallahassee.
1983-2008 Professor (Distinguished Research Professor since 2001), College of Music , The Florida State University, Tallahassee.
2008-present Professor Emeritus (retired), College of Music , The Florida State University, Tallahassee.
ADVISORY and CONSULTING ROLES
1987 and 1990 NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Panel Member.
1988 FEA (Florida Endowment for the Arts) Site Reviewer, Miami Folk Festival, August.
1989 Core Advisory Board for WQED/Pittsburgh television series “The Music of Mankind.”
1989-91 NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) Site Reviewer, Ybor City Folk Festival (November 1989); New York, World Music Institute Concert (April 1993).
1991-2001 Multicultural music consultant for Silver-Burdett Inc.
OFFICES HELD
1981-1982 President, Southeast/Caribbean Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology.
1984-1986 Member-at-large, Board of Directors, Society for Ethnomusicology (national office).
1984-1986 Member, Council, Society for Ethnomusicology (national office).
1986-1990 Member, Board of Directors, Florida Folklore Society.
1987-1989 President, Florida Folklore Society.
1988-1989 President, Southeastern/Caribbean Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology.
1991-1993 Secretary, Southeastern/Caribbean Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology.
1993-1997 President, Southeastern/Caribbean Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology.
1992-1995 Board Member for Ethnomusicology, The College Music Society (national office).
1995-1997 First Vice President, Society for Ethnomusicology (national office).
1998 President-Elect, The College Music Society (national office).
1999-2000 President, The College Music Society (national office).
2001 Immediate Past-President, The College Music Society (national office).
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
1987 Sounds of the World. Volume editor for Music of Latin America.
1989-1998 Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, co-editor with Daniel E. Sheehy of Vol. 2, “Music of South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.”
1990-1994 Recording Review Editor, Ethnomusicology, Journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology.
2000-2001 Garland Handbook of Latin American Music, co-editor with Daniel E. Sheehy.
2006-2007 Garland Handbook of Latin American Music, 2nd edition, co-editor with Daniel E. Sheehy
ADMINISTRATION
1983 National Chairperson of the Local Arrangements Committee, 28th Annual Meeting, Society for Ethnomusicology, Florida State Conference Center, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, October 20-23.
1986-1987 Acting Director, Center for Black Culture, The Florida State University, Tallahassee.
1986 National Chairperson, Program Committee, 29th Annual Meeting, College Music Society, Miami, Florida, October.
1988 Co-Program Chair (with Ernie Williams), Joint Annual Meeting, Florida Folklore Society and SEMSEC, Lake Wales, FL, February 5-7.
1994-2007 Director, Center for Music of the Americas (CMA), School of Music, The Florida State University, Tallahassee.
2002 and 2004 Director, Vietnamese Summer Program (Ho Chi Minh City), International Programs, The Florida State University, Tallahassee.
2003 National Chairperson, Local Arrangements Committee, 48th Annual Meeting, Society for Ethnomusicology (joint meeting CMS), Miami, Florida, October.
2003 National Chairperson, Program Committee, 47th Annual Meeting, The College Music Society (joint meeting with SEM), Miami, Florida, October.
2009 Program Committee Member, 54th Annual Meeting, Society for Ethnomusicology, Mexico City, Mexico, November 19-22.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS (past and present)
American Musical Instrument Society (AMIS)
College Music Society (CMS)
Florida Folklore Society (FFS)
International Council for Traditional Music (ITCM)
Society for Asian Music (SAM)
Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM)
Music Educator’s National Conference (MENC)
American Society for Technology in Music Instruction (ATMI)
GRANTS, AWARDS and DISTINCTIONS
1972 Venezuelan Indian Project Grant; Clifton Webb Award, UCLA (research in Venezuela)
1973 Ph.D. Dissertation with Distinction, UCLA
1974 National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend (research in Venezuela, Colombia, Peru)
1979 Fulbright-Hays International Exchange of Scholars Fellowship (Peru)
1979 Japan Foundation Grant (Artists-in-Residence Program in Koto at The Florida State University)
1980 Japan Foundation Grant (Artists-in-Residence Program in Koto at The Florida State University)
1980 Developing Scholar Award, The Florida State University (research in Brazil)
1982 COFRS (Committee on Faculty Research Support) Award, The Florida State University (research in the Field Museum, Chicago)
1985 Florence Program, The Florida State University Overseas Study Center
1986 Sabbatical, Spring Semester (article preparation)
1986 FSU Foundation Advisory Committee Grant (“Ethnomusicology Archive”)
1987 President’s Travel Grant (presentation and research in Europe)
1988 President’s Travel Grant (presentations in New Mexico and Arizona)
1989 COFRS Award, The Florida State University (research in Europe)
1991 Learning Systems Institute Grant, The Florida State University (multicultural music education, “minority musics in North America”)
1993 COFRS Award, The Florida State University (research in South America)
1993 Sabbatical, Spring Semester (research in South America and Asia, book preparation)
1994 Council for Instruction, Planning Grant, The Florida State University
1996 President’s Travel Grant (concerts and research in Peru)
1996 Learning Systems Institute Grant, The Florida State University (distance learning, “Music Cultures of the World”)
1997 Distance Learning Grant, Provost, The Florida State University
1998 COFRS Award, The Florida State University (research in Polynesia)
1999 President’s Award for Exemplary Use of Technology in Instruction, The Florida State University
1999 Provost’s Travel Grant (conference and research in Japan)
2000 Council for Instruction Grant, The Florida State University (distance learning, “Music Cultures of the World”)
2001 Sabbatical (research in Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru)
2001 Distinguished Research Professor Award, The Florida State University
2002 (summer) Vietnam Program, The Florida State University Overseas Study Center (Director)
2002 COFRS Award, The Florida State University (research in Vietnam)
2004 (summer) Vietnam Program, The Florida State University Overseas Study Center (Director)
2005-2006 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship Award
2006 (summer) Republic of Panama Program, The Florida State University Overseas Study Center
2007 (summer) Republic of Panama Program, The Florida State University Overseas Study Center
2008 (summer) Republic of Panama Program , The Florida State University Overseas Study Center
2009 Professor Emeritus Award
2019 Honorary Membership Award, Society for Ethnomusicology.
PUBLIC LECTURES, SPECIAL CONCERTS, and WORKSHOPS (excludes scholarly meetings [see below], local school/church lectures, or student group concerts)
1977 “Pre-Columbian Musical Instruments of Peru.” The Tallahassee Archaeological Society and the FSU Student Archaeology Club. The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, May 13.
1979 “A Methodology for Research: Music and Altered States of Consciousness.” School of Music Faculty Symposia, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, April 16.
1981 Concerts of Japanese music on shakuhachi, with Japanese visiting artists Yuko Wada and Machiko Terada (kotos), in Houston, Dallas, Oklahoma City, and Louisville, sponsored by the Japan-America Society and the Japan Foundation. March.
1982 “Music Making, Cultural Identity, and Freedom of Expression among the Japanese in Sao Paulo, Brazil.” Center for Latin American Studies Colloquium, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, June 2.
1984 “La Fiesta de La Tirana (with video).” Center for Latin American Studies Colloquium, Sponsored by The Aymara Institute of the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, July 15.
1985 “Modern Trends in African and Afro-Latin Music.” Summer Institute on African and Latin American Studies for Social Science and Foreign Language Classroom Teachers. Center for African Studies and Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, July 18.
1986 “Religious Folk Festivals of the Northern and Central Peruvian Highlands.” Center for Latin American Studies. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, May 28.
1986 “Traditional Music of Peru.” Florida State Museum Music Series, “Drumbeats, Symphonies and Song.” University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, July 1.
1986 Summer Institute for Teachers (Latin American music), Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, July.
1987 “Latin American Music,” Symposium on the Teaching of World Music in the Undergraduate Curriculum, The Butler World Music Project (Patricia K. Shehan, Director). Butler University, Indianapolis, IN, May 20.
1988 “Integrating the Music of Central and South America into the General Studies Curriculum,” Institute for Music in General Studies (Latin American music), College Music Society, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, June.
1990 Preconference Symposium Workshop (teaching Latin American and Caribbean musics) in Multicultural Music Education (with Dr. Linda O’Brien and Dr. Daniel Sheehy). Annual Meeting of the Music Educator’s National Conference, Washington D.C., March.
1990 Solo concert: “Japanese Shakuhachi Honkyoku (Zen meditation music).” University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, July 27.
1990 Workshop: “Traditional and Popular Music of the Central Andes of South America.” University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, July 27.
1990 “Latin American and Caribbean musical traditions in Florida.” Celebration of Arts and Culture Conference: Workshop in Arts Education, The Florida State University, July.
1990 “Latin American and Caribbean Musics in Florida.” Workshop for high school teachers: teaching African and Afro-Cuban music. Miami, FL, October.
1992 Consultant and speaker to music faculty at San Diego State University, January.
1992 Workshop for high school teachers (teaching African and Afro-Cuban music), Sarasota, FL, February.
1992 “A Celebration of South American Music — More Than Columbus Could Have Imagined.” Dinner Series for Alumni and Friends, Florida State Conference Center, Tallahassee, FL, November 5.
1993 “Ethnomusicology and Latin American music.” Hong Kong Baptist University, November.
1993 “Music and Shamanism in South America,” Chinese University of Hong Kong, November.
1993 “The Ethnomusicology of South America,” Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China, November.
1995 Director of Workshop in World Music Performance (Brazilian samba, Caribbean salsa, Caribbean steel band), Center for Music of the Americas, FSU, June.
1995 Master of Ceremonies, “Music of the African Diaspora” (From West Africa to the Caribbean and Brazil), with the FSU World Music Ensembles: West African Music and Dance Ensemble, Samba Oba, Salsa Florida, and Mas ‘n’ Steel, Ruby Diamond Auditorium, FSU (Florida Council for the Humanities funded conference entitled “Oral, Religious, and Musical Experience,” April.
1996 “Music of the Warao of Venezuela,” National School of Music, Lima, Peru, July.
1998 “Borrowing from Ethnoarchaeology: The usefulness and Validity of Ethnographic Analogy in ‘Ethnoarchaaeomusicology’. An Application to the Sinu and Tairona of Northern Colombia.” Pre-Columbian Music Workshop, Pre-Columbian Studies, Dumbarton Oaks Museum, Washington, D.C., April 18-19.
1998 “Music as Power Among the Warao of Venezuela.” Musicology Lecture Series, University of Florida, March.
1998 “Music of the Rain Forest and Flutes of the World.” Lecture Series, Atenisi Institute, Nuku’alofa, Tonga, July.
1998. “Polynesia: From the Pacific to the Internet.” In-the-works 1st Performances. The Nancy Smith Fichter Dance Theatre, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, October 6.
1999 “The Harp Traditions of the Peruvian Highlands: Music and Musical Contexts” (program title; actual title “Three Styles, Regions, and Contexts of the Peruvian arpa indigena Indigenous Harp”). 16th Annual Historical Harp Society Workshop and Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, July 31.
2000 “Music and Japanese Identity in Brazil and South America.” Staging Identity: Latin American Music and Dance. Center for Latin American Studies and the Center for World Arts, University of Florida, Gainesville, February 26.
2002 “The Shakuhachi as a Research Tool among Japanese Immigrants in South America.” Florida International University, Miami, FL, January.
2003 “Music for Shakuhachi.” Lecture/Recital, Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AK, February 15.
2003 “Music as Power in the Rain Forest,” Florida Atlantic University, Florida, March.
2003 “Music of El Dorado: The Archaeomusicology of Ancient Peru.” Friday Seminar, The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, Fowler Building, Los Angeles, CA, April 25.
2003 “The Music of El Dorado: Pre-Columbian Music of Peru.” School of Music, University of Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica, July.
2003 “Music of El Dorado: Pre-Columbian Music of Peru.” The Tribal Arts Society of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Florida, October 23.
2004 “Music and Shamanism of the Warao.” 2nd Annual Amazonia Week at FSU, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, March 1.
2007 “Music and Shamanistic Healing among the Warao Indians of the Venezuelan Rainforest.” The Rey M. Longyear Lecture, Keynote Address for “A Day of Latin American Music” Conference, Niles Gallery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, February 9.
2012 “Calling the Gods from the Mountains to the Sea: Ancient Ocarinas for Supernatural Communication from the Altar of a Northern Coastal Shaman in Moche, Peru.” Musicology Lecture Series, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
PARTICIPATION AT SCHOLARLY MEETINGS (since promotion to full professor)
International Meetings
1985 “The Flutes of El Dorado: Musical Guardian Spirit Effigies of the Tairona Civilization of Ancient Colombia.” 26th World Conference, International Council for Traditional Music, Stockholm, Sweden and Helsinki, Finland, August 6.
1986 “The Pipers of Etruria: A Model for Research in Music Iconology.” Study Group on Music Iconography (International Council for Traditional Music), The Hague, The Netherlands, June.
1986 “Flutes of El Dorado: A Model for Research in Archaeomusicology as Applied to the Sinú of Ancient Colombia.” Study Group on Music Archaeology (International Council for Traditional Music), Hannover, West Germany, November.
1988 “Music Technologies & Intellectual Implications in the Pre-Columbian Andes.” Explorations, Encounters and Identities: Musical Repercussions of 1492, a symposium sponsored by the Quincentenary Program of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., Dedicated to the work of Robert Stevenson, March 10-13.
1989 “Music as Music, Dance as Dance among the Warao of Venezuela.” 30th World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM), Schladming, Austria, July 26.
1999 “Iwami Baikyoku V: A Japanese Immigrant Composer and Master Musician in Brazil.” The College Music Society International Conference, Kyoto, Japan, June 30.
2001 “How to Teach Irish Music Without Being a Specialist in Irish Music: World Music Instructional Design.” International Conference of The College Music Society, Limerick, Ireland, July.
2005 “‘I know how to sing and dance!’ Spanish sesquiáltera Music/Dance Genres and their Latin American Derivatives: Indicators of Spanish Colonialism, Musical Syncretism, and New World Nationalism.” International Conference of The College Music Society, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, June 15.
2007 “Female Pop Singers, Sexuality, Goddess Cults, and the Politics of Neatness in Twenty-first Century Vietnam.” International Conference of The College Music Society, Bangkok, Thailand, July.
2011 “Musical Chant Formulas and Cultural Functions Among the Warao of Venezuela” (panel title, “Human and non-human music: construction and transformation of bodies in lowland South America,” organized by Bernd Brabec de Mori). 41st World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM), St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, July 17.
2012 “La Musique de l’Eldorado” (invited paper). Rencontres d’Aubrac festival and conference “Imaginaires de l’Eldorado”, in Aubrac, Aveyron, France, August 21.
2012 “Encuentros de la Música de El Dorado” (invited paper). Encuentro Internacional de Musicologia, in Loja, Ecuador, October 23.
National Meetings
1973 “Music and Shamanism of the Warao Indians of Venezuela.” 18th Annual Meeting, Society for Ethnomusicology, Urbana, IL.
1973 “Music and Shamanism of the Warao Indians of Venezuela: The Function of Melody in Curing Songs.” 72nd Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA, November.
1974 “Music-Induced Altered States of Consciousness among Warao Shamans and other Healers.” 19th Annual Meeting, Society for Ethnomusicology (jointly with the Committee on Research in Dance), San Francisco, CA, October.
1976 “Shamanistic Music as a Determinant of Ethnic Identification among some Northern South American Indian Groups.” 21st Annual Meeting, Society for Ethnomusicology (jointly with the American Folklore society), Philadelphia, PA, November.
1981 “Music, Cultural Identity, and Freedom of Expression among the Japanese and their Descendants in Peru and Brazil.” 26th Annual Meeting, Society for Ethnomusicology, Honolulu, HI, October.
1983 Discussant for “The Music/Myth Nexus in Lowland South America.” 28th Annual Meeting, Society for Ethnomusicology, Tallahassee, FL.
1984 “The Flutes of El Dorado: An Archaeomusicological Investigation of the Tairona Civilization of Colombia.” 13th Annual Meeting, American Musical Instrument Society, Tempe, AZ.
1984 “A Japanese Master Musician in a Brazilian Context.” 29th Annual Meeting, Society for Ethnomusicology, Santa Monica, CA.
1986 “Ethnomusicology in the American College and University.” Annual Meeting of the College Music Society, Southern Chapter, Lafayette, LA, March.
1986 Discussant for “Two Flutes and a Rattle: The Evolution of an Ensemble” by George List. 31st Annual Meeting, Society for Ethnomusicology, Rochester, NY, October.
1987 “The Ethnomusicology of Archaeology: A Model for Research in Ethnoarchaeomusicology.” 32nd Annual Meeting, Society for Ethnomusicology, Ann Arbor, MI, November.
1988 “Usefulness of Study Guides in Teaching World Music.” 33rd Annual Meeting, Society for Ethnomusicology, Tempe, AZ, October.
1988 “A Multicultural Approach to the Teaching of World Music Cultures.” 33rd Annual Meeting, Society for Ethnomusicology, Tempe, AZ, October.
1989 “Performing Transplanted Caribbean and Andean Musics Within the Pan-Caribbean and Pan-Latin American World of Florida.” 34th Annual Meeting, Society for Ethnomusicology, November.
1989 “Eurocentrism versus Multiculturalism: Contemporary Approaches to Teaching Music.” 32nd Annual Meeting of The College Music Society (CMS), in St. Louis, MO, October 14.
1989 Presentation: Teaching Strategies in World Music II (with Ricardo D. Trimillos). “Philosophy, Organization, and Teaching Strategies for World Music Courses.” 32nd Annual Meeting of The College Music Society, St. Louis, MO, October 14.
1990 Presentation: “Teaching Hispanic American Music.” Pre-conference Symposium on Multicultural Music Education, Annual Meeting of the Music Educator’s National Conference, Washington D.C., March.
1990 “Panpipes of Peru and Bolivia.” 35th Annual Meeting, Society for Ethnomusicology, Seattle, WA, November.
1991 “World Music and Ethnomusicology: Understanding the Differences.” Panel with Robert Brown, Dale A. Olsen, and Ricardo Trimillos, chaired by Gertrude Rivers Robinson. 34th Annual Meeting of the College Music Society, Chicago, IL, October.
1992 “World Music in the University.” Keynote speaker at World Music Conference, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, January.
1992 “The Ethnoarchaeomusicology of the Moche Native Americans from the Peruvian North Coast,” 37th Annual Meeting, Society for Ethnomusicology, Seattle, WA, October.
1994 Chair of following sessions: “Contemporary Native American Expressions,” “Broad-Based Approaches to Teaching Music Appreciation Courses,” and “A Celebration of West African Music and Dance.” 37th Annual Meeting, The College Music Society, Savannah, GA.
1995 “‘. . . no es música’–Karaoke, Identity, and the Teaching of Japanese Values through Song among People of Japanese Ancestry in South America.” 40th Annual Meeting, Society for Ethnomusicology, Los Angeles, CA, October.
1995 “Board Member in Ethnomusicology/World Music Annual Report.” 38th Annual Meeting, The College Music Society, Portland, OR, November.
1997 “Distance Instruction of World Music Cultures” (with Robert H. Woody). 40th Annual Meeting, The College Music Society (& Association for Technology in Music Instruction). Cleveland, OH, November.
1998 “Music Faculty in Higher Education.” Music Educator’s Summit, Washington, D.C., October 2-3.
1999 “Keeping Up Traditions, Breaking Down Barriers: A Century of Nikkei (People of Japanese Heritage) Music in South America.” Musical Cultures of Latin America: Global Effects, Past and Present. An Interdisciplinary Conference at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, May 30.
1999 “Harps of Peru.” Historical Harp Society National Conference, Madison, WI, August.
1999 President’s Keynote Address, “The State of the Society.” 42nd Annual Meeting, The College Music Society, Denver, CO, October.
2000 President’s Keynote Address, “The State of the Society.” 43rd Annual Meeting, The College Music Society (Musical Intersections, mega meeting with 14 North American musical societies), Toronto, Canada, November.
2000 Moderator of AMS/CMS joint panel “The Musicologist as Undergraduate Teacher,” Musical Intersections, mega meeting with 14 North American musical societies), Toronto, Canada, November.
2000 “‘You Want Me to Teach What?’: Teaching Outside One’s Professional Area” (with Ricardo D. Trimillos). 43rd Annual Meeting, The College Music Society (Musical Intersections, mega meeting with 14 North American musical societies), Toronto, Canada, November.
2001 “Internet-Based Distance Learning, Instructional Design, and Interactivity: The Asynchronous Instruction of a World Music Cultures Course on the Internet.” Technology in the Classroom and Beyond: Hypermedia, Internet, and Other Electronic Resources. 51st Annual Meeting, Society for Ethnomusicology, Detroit, MI, October.
2002 “‘Nobody fishes until the pelican sings’: Ancient ocarinas for supernatural communication from the altar of a northern coastal shaman in Moche, Peru.” Symposium 151, Creating an Archaeology of Performance, Society for American Archaeology. Denver, CO, March 23.
2002 “Teaching Native American Music via Native American Pop,” in session “Alternative and Creative Instructional Approaches to Teaching Native American Music Cultures.” 45th Annual Meeting of the College Music Society, Kansas City, MO, September.
2002 “Calling the Spirits from the Mountains to the Sea: Ancient Ocarinas for Supernatural Communication among the Moche of Peru.” 52nd Annual Meeting, Society for Ethnomusicology, Estes Park, CO, October.
2003 “Music of El Dorado.” Annual Meeting, International Council for Traditional Music, Music Archaeology Study Group, Los Angeles, CA, April.
2004 Chair and participant in Plenary Session “Taking a Stand? Ethnomusicology and Advocacy.” 54th Annual Meeting, Society for Ethnomusicology, Tucson, AZ, November 5.
2004 “Ethnomusicology as Advocacy: Addressing Cultural Survival through Music via the Internet.” 54th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Tucson, AZ, November 6.
2005 “Go down, blood!”—Native Rainforest Music Therapy among the Warao of Venezuela.” 55th Annual Meeting, Society for Ethnomusicology, Atlanta, GA, November.
2010 “World Flutes in Legends, Myths, Poems, and Other Stories of Magic and Power.” 53rd Annual Meeting of The College Music Society, Minneapolis, MN, September 24.
2010 “Geographical Regions II: Latin America.” Alumni Symposium: Fifty Years of Ethnomusicology at UCLA. Los Angeles, CA, November 9.
2014 Book Vendor (World Flutelore) and performer (Japanese “Oiwake” on Native American flute. World Flute Society Convention, Eau Claire, WS, July.
Regional Meetings
1978 “Ethnomusicology Studies in Florida.” Florida Folk Arts Conference, White Springs, FL, January 14.
1981 “Ethnomusicology Research in Florida, the Southeast, and the Caribbean” (panel with Doris Dyen, Martha Davis, and Ron Riddle), First Annual Meeting of the Southeast/Caribbean Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEMSEC), Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, May 15-17.
1982 “Survey of Programs in Ethnomusicology in the South” (panel with David Evans and others), Annual Meeting of the Southeast/Caribbean Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEMSEC), The University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, May 7-9.
1983 “Chinese Musical Elements in the Japanese Nanga School of Art.” 10th Meeting, Florida-Japan Seminar, Jacksonville, FL.
1986 “Collecting the Pieces of the Human Puzzle: Ethnomusicology and cultural heritage.” Basement to Attic: Cultural Foundations and the Collection of Folklore, a Florida Folklife Council conference, co-sponsored by the Florida Folklore Society, Jacksonville Museum of Arts and Sciences, Jacksonville, FL, February 8.
1986 “Ethnomusicology in the American College and University” (panel with D. Warren Steel and Ronald Riddle), Annual Meeting of the College Music society, Southern Chapter, University of Southwestern Louisiana, March 7.
1986 “The Pipers of Etruria: A Model for Research in World Music Iconology,” Southeastern/Caribbean Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEMSEC), Tallahassee, FL, April 12.
1989 “Latin American and Caribbean Music in Florida: A Report from the Field.” Sounds of the South Conference, North Carolina Arts Council and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Program in Folklore, Chapel Hill, April.
1988 “Musical Change in the Peruvian Andes.” Joint Annual Meeting of the Florida Folklore Society and the Southeastern/Caribbean Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEMSEC), Lake Wales, FL, February 6.
1989 “Ethnomusicology and Music History: Mendelssohn’s Italian Journey — Field Work or ‘A Runaway with the Rich and Famous?'” Joint Annual Meeting of the Southern Chapter of the American Musicological Society and the Southeastern/Caribbean Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEMSEC), Tuscaloosa, AL, February.
1991 “Developing World Music Ensembles at the University Level: An Example from West Africa,” with Ama Aduonum. Annual Meeting, Southeastern/Caribbean Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEMSEC), Lafayette, LA, April.
1998 “The Professor as Juggler (Researcher, Teacher, Author, Performer, and Servant)” or “The Graduate Student as Juggler (Researcher, Teaching Assistant, Author, Performer, and Slave).” Panelist in “Joint Roundtable: Musical Academia Survival Tips: Professorial Points of View.” PanMusic ’98, Joint Annual Meetings of South Central Society for Music Theory; Southern Chapter, American Musicological Society; and Southeast/Caribbean Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEMSEC). Oxford, MS, February.
1999 “Folklife Academia in Florida” (panel with Mark Workman and John Ho). Folklife Scholarship in Florida: Yesterday & Today. Annual Meeting, Florida Folklore Society, Tallahassee, FL, April 9-11.
1999 “Etruscan Music and Dance: Threads of Continuity.” The Religion of the Etruscans. The Sixth Annual Langford Conference, Tallahassee, FL, February.
2002 “Reflections on SEMSEC’s First 21 Years.” Joint Annual Meetings of American Musicological Society–Southern Chapter; Music Theory Southeast; and Southeast/Caribbean Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEMSEC); in conjunction with the International Ernst von Dohnany Festival and a symposium on “Tradition and Acculturation: Celebrating the Folk Music of Italy.” Tallahassee, FL, January 31–February 2.
2003 “The Music of El Dorado: Pre-Columbian Music of Peru.” Lowe Art Museum, Lecture Series, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, October 23.
2004 “Music, Memory, and Ingenuity: Pathways to Cultural Survival in Japanese Diasporic Subcultures in South America.” Annual Meeting, Southeastern/Caribbean Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEMSEC), Emory University, Atlanta, GA, February.
2004 “Music and Power among the Warao of the Venezuelan Rainforest,” Amazon Conference, FSU, Tallahassee, March.
2007 “Female Pop Singers, Sexuality, Goddess Cults, and the Politics of Neatness in Twenty-first Century Vietnam.” Annual Meeting, Southeastern/Caribbean Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEMSEC), Athens, GA, March.
2008 “Musicological Research for Whom?—Knowing Other, Discovering Self, Making a Difference.” Keynote Address for the joint annual meeting the Southeast/Caribbean Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEMSEC) and the American Musicological Society (AMS), Southern Chapter), Saturday, March 1, 2008, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.
2016 Discussant for session “Sound, Space, and Substance in Music and Ritual.” Annual meeting of the Southeast/Caribbean Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEMSEC), March 4, Southern Academy of the Performing Arts, San Fernando, Trinidad.
PUBLICATIONS (listed chronologically by type)
Books
Doce Conferencias en Etnomusicología para Iniciar el Estudio de un Atlas Musical del Perú.Lima: Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Escuela Nacional de Música, 1979.
Music of Latin America. Study Guide in series Sounds of the World. Edited by Dale A. Olsen. Music Educators National Conference, 1987. With 3 cassette tapes.
Musics of Many Cultures: Study Guide and Workbook (for Musics of Many Cultures: An Introduction, Elizabeth May, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981). Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt Publishers, Inc. 1993. Second Edition, 1995. Third Edition, 2000. Fourth Edition, 2003.
Music of the Warao of Venezuela: Song People of the Rain Forest. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996. With compact disc. (Winner of 1997 Alan Merriam Prize for “Most Outstanding Book in Ethnomusicology,” by the Society for Ethnomusicology.)
South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, Vol. 2, Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Edited by Dale A. Olsen and Daniel Sheehy. New York: Garland Publishing, 1998, with compact disc.
The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music. Edited by Dale A. Olsen and Daniel Sheehy. New York: Garland Publishing/Taylor & Francis, Inc. 2000, with compact disc. (Second Edition, 2008, with two compact discs, updated, with new material.)
Music of El Dorado: The Ethnomusicology of Ancient Andean Cultures. With compact disc materials on line. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001 (paperback edition, 2004).
The Chrysanthemum and the Song: Music, Memory, and Identity in the South American Japanese Diaspora. With compact disc materials on line. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004.
Popular Music in Vietnam: The Politics of Remembering, The Economics of Forgetting. New York/London: Routledge, 2008.
World Flutelore: Folktales, Myths, and Other Stories of Magical Flute Power. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2013.
From the Sound Up: Building World Music Ensembles in Public Places. Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), formerly CreateSpace, copyright by Dale A. Olsen, 2018. ISBN-13: 978-1986909235 (available from Amazon.com).
Chapters in Books and Encyclopedias
“Symbol and Function in South American Indian Music,” in Musics of Many Cultures: An Introduction, edited by Elizabeth May. Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press (1980).
“Folk Music of South America–A Musical Mosaic,” in Musics of Many Cultures: An Introduction, edited by Elizabeth May. Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press (1980).
“The Flutes of El Dorado: Musical Guardian Spirit Effigies of the Tairona,” in Imago Musicae: The International Yearbook of Musical Iconography 3, 1986. Basel: Barenreiter Verlag and Duke University Press (1987).
“The Magic Flutes of El Dorado: A Model for Research in Music Archaeology as Applied to the Sinú of Ancient Colombia,” in The Archaeology of Early Music Cultures, edited by Ellen Hickmann and David W. Hughes, Bonn: Verlag für systematische Musikwissenschaft GmbH (1988).
“Teaching our Latin American/Caribbean Musical Heritage,” with Selwyn Ahyoung, in An Introduction to Multicultural Music Education: Global Perspectives in Music, edited by William Anderson and Patricia Shehan. Reston, VA: Music Educators National Conference (1989).
“Japan: music traditions of overseas communities of Japanese ancestry,” in Music Traditions of Japan, Asia and Oceania. Iwanami Series), edited by Gamô Satoaki, Hirano Kenzi, Sibata Minao, Tokumaru Yosihiko, Yamaguti Osamu, and Yokomiti Mario. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, Publishers (1989).
“Cultural Diversity, Performance Cohesiveness, and Andean Panpipe (Raft-Pipe) Music” (pp. 66-69 in Teaching the Music of Hispanic Americans) in Teaching Music with a Multicultural Approach (book with video tape), edited by William M. Anderson. Reston, VA: Music Educator’s National Conference (1991).
“Hispanic-American Music in the Classroom” (pp. 76-85 in Teaching the Music of Hispanic Americans) in Teaching Music with a Multicultural Approach (book with video tape), edited by William M. Anderson. Reston, VA: Music Educator’s National Conference (1991).
“Music of the Ancient Americas: Music Technologies & Intellectual Implications in the Pre-Columbian Andes.” In Explorations, Encounters and Identities: Musical Repercussions of 1492, edited by Carol Robertson. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press (1992).
“Southeastern Native American Stomp Dance,” in Chapter 4: Model Instructional Units, Multicultural Arts Education: Guidelines, Instructional Units and Resources for Art, Dance, Music and Theater. Grades K-12, pp. 86-97. Edited by Jerry P. Wood, Center for Music Research, The Florida State University, Published by the State of Florida, Department of State, Tallahassee (1993).
“Approaches to Musical Scholarship,” in South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, Vol. 2, Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, edited by Dale A. Olsen and Daniel E. Sheehy. New York: Garland Press (1998), and in The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music. Edited by Dale A. Olsen and Daniel Sheehy. New York: Garland Publishing/Taylor & Francis, Inc. 2000, with compact disc. (Second Edition, 2008, with two compact discs.)
“Kogi,” in South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, Vol. 2, Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, edited by Dale A. Olsen and Daniel E. Sheehy. New York: Garland Press (1998).
“Moxo,” in South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, Vol. 2, Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, edited by Dale A. Olsen and Daniel E. Sheehy. New York: Garland Press (1998).
“Music of Immigrant Groups,” in South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, Vol. 2, Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, edited by Dale A. Olsen and Daniel E. Sheehy. New York: Garland Press (1998), and in The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music. Edited by Dale A. Olsen and Daniel Sheehy. New York: Garland Publishing/Taylor & Francis, Inc. 2000, with compact disc. (Second Edition, 2008, with two compact discs.)
“Distribution, Symbolism, and Use of Musical Instrument,” in South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, Vol. 2, Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, edited by Dale A. Olsen and Daniel E. Sheehy. New York: Garland Press (1998); and in The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music. Edited by Dale A. Olsen and Daniel Sheehy. New York: Garland Publishing/Taylor & Francis, Inc. 2000, with compact disc. (Second Edition, 2008, with two compact discs.)
“Surinam,” in South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, Vol. 2, Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, edited by Dale A. Olsen and Daniel E. Sheehy. New York: Garland Press (1998).
“Tukano,” in South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, Vol. 2, Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, edited by Dale A. Olsen and Daniel E. Sheehy. New York: Garland Press (1998).
“Warao,” in South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, Vol. 2, Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, edited by Dale A. Olsen and Daniel E. Sheehy. New York: Garland Press (1998); and in The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music. Edited by Dale A. Olsen and Daniel Sheehy. New York: Garland Publishing/Taylor & Francis, Inc. 2000, with compact disc. (Second Edition, 2008, with two compact discs.)
“Yanomamö,” in South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, Vol. 2, Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, edited by Dale A. Olsen and Daniel E. Sheehy. New York: Garland Press (1998).
“Yekuana,” in South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean,Vol. 2, Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, edited by Dale A. Olsen and Daniel E. Sheehy. New York: Garland Press (1998).
“Music Faculty Perspectives,” in Music and American Higher Education. Reston VA: National Association of Schools of Music and The College Music Society (1998).
“Globalization, Culturation, and Transculturation in American Music: From Cultural Pop to Transcultural Art,” in Reflections on American Music: The Twentieth Century and the New Millennium, James R. Heintze and Michael Saffle, eds., Monographs & Bibliographies in American Music Series, The College Music Society (Pendragon Press, 2000).
“Preface,” in Reflections on American Music: The Twentieth Century and the New Millennium, James R. Heintze and Michael Saffle, eds., Monographs & Bibliographies in American Music Series, The College Music Society (Pendragon Press, 2000).
“Ethnomusicologists at Work: Dale A. Olsen,” in World Music: General Perspectives, Vol. 10, Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, edited by Ruth Stone. New York: Garland Press (2000).
“Music Alone Can Alter a Shaman’s Consciousness, Which Itself Can Destroy Tape Recorders,” in Shamans Through Time: 500 Years on the Path to Knowledge. Eds. Jeremy Narby and Francis Huxley. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam.
“Keeping Up Traditions, Breaking Down Barriers: A Century of Nikkei (People of Japanese Heritage) Music in South America,: In Musical Cultures of Latin America: Global Effects, Past and Present. Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology (Los Angeles: UCLA 2003).
“Aerophones of Traditional Use in South America, with References to Central America and Mexico,” in Music in Latin America and the Caribbean, An Encyclopedic History, Vol. 1, Performing Beliefs: Indigenous Peoples of South America, Central America, and Mexico. Edited by Malena Kuss, 261-325 (Austin: University Press of Texas, 2004).
“Adaptations of musical forms and genres introduced by immigrant groups: the Japanese,” in Music in Latin America and the Caribbean, An Encyclopedic History, Vol. 3, Latin America—Islands of History: From Precontact Civilizations to 20th-Century Composition. Edited by Malena Kuss (Austin: University Press of Texas, 2005).
“Conclusion,” in The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music. Edited by Dale A. Olsen and Daniel Sheehy. New York: Garland Publishing/Taylor & Francis, Inc. 2000, with compact disc. (Second Edition, 2008, with two compact discs.)
“Cosmic Diplomacy and Celestial Battles: Shamanism, Music, and Healing in Two Contrasting South American Cultural Areas,” in Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology, edited by Benjamin Koen (Oxford University Press, 2008).
“Panama: History, culture, and geography of music,” in The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture, vol. 4, edited by Janet Sturman (SAGE Publishing, 2019).
“Panama: Modern and contemporary performance practice,” in The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture, vol. 4, edited by Janet Sturman (SAGE Publishing, 2019).
“Presentación,” in Canciones que hacen Bailar el Camino, by Linda O’Brien-Rothe (Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, 2019).
Articles
“The Function of Naming in the Curing Songs of the Warao Indians of Venezuela,” Anuario, Yearbook for Inter-American Musical Research 10:88-122. Austin: University of Texas Press (1974).
“Music-Induced Altered States of Consciousness among Warao Shamans,” Journal of Latin American Lore 1(1):19-33. Los Angeles: University of California (1975).
“Música vesperal Mojo en San Miguel de Isiboro, Bolivia,” Revista Musical Chilena 30(133):28-46. Santiago: University of Chile (1976).
“Musical Instruments of the Native Peoples of the Orinoco Delta, the Caribbean, and Beyond,” Revista/Review Interamericana 8(4):577-613. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Inter-American University Press (Winter 1978/79).
“Public Concerts in Early America,” Music Educators Journal 65(9):48-59 (May 1979).
“Música Japonesa del Shakuhachi: Problemas de Lenguaje,” Boletín de la Sociedad Filarmónica de Lima 2:9-11(Agosto 1979).
“Musicología, Etnomusicología, y las demas -ologías Musicales,” Boletín de la Sociedad Filarmónica de Lima 3(Octubre 1979).
“Magical Protection Songs of the Warao, Part One: Animals,” Latin American Music Review 1(2):131-61(1980).
“Magical Protection Songs of the Warao, Part Two: Spirits,” Latin American Music Review 2(1):1-10(1981).
“Japanese Music in Peru,” Asian Music 11(2):41-51 (1980).
“The Concert Halls of Chicago under Theodore Thomas,” Music Educators Journal 70(2):38-44(October 1983).
“Japanese Music in Brazil,” Asian Music 14(1):111-131(1983).
“The Social Determinants of Japanese Musical Life in Peru and Brazil,” Ethnomusicology 27(1):49-70(January 1983).
“The Flutes of El Dorado: An Archaeomusicological Investigation of the Tairona Civilization of Colombia,” Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society 12:107-136 (1986).
“A Japanese Master Musician in a Brazilian Context,” Hôgaku 2(2):19-30(Winter 1986).
“The Peruvian Folk Harp Tradition: Determinants of Style,” Folk Harp Journal 53 (June 1986), 54 (Fall 1986), 55 (Winter 1986), 56 (Spring 1987), 57 (Summer 1987), 58 (Fall 1987), and 59 (Winter 1987).
“Towards A Musical Atlas of Peru,” Ethnomusicology 30(3):394-412 (Fall 1986).
“It is Time for Another -Phone,” SEM Newsletter 20:4 (September 1986).
“Latin American and Caribbean Music in South Florida,” Traditions: A Celebration of Latin & Caribbean Music, Publication of the South Florida Folklife Festival, sponsored by the Historical Association of Southern Florida, Miami (1988).
“The Ethnomusicology of Archaeology: A Model for the Musical/Cultural Study of Ancient Material Culture,” Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology (Issues in Organology) 8:175-200 (1990).
“An Introduction to Latin American and Caribbean Musics in Florida: Multicultural Approaches in the Music Classroom,” Research Perspectives in Music Education (A Bulletin of the Florida Music Educators Association) 1:14 -18 (Fall 1990).
“Ethnomusicology and World Music–Understanding the Difference,” Newsletter of the College Music Society (May 1992).
“Multicultural Music Education, Cultural Sensitivity, and the Ethnographic Truth: A Response to Cornelius,” in Symposium, Journal of the College Music Society 35:33-34 (1995).
“The Complementarity and Interdisciplinarity of Archaeomusicology: An Introduction to the Field and this Volume,” The World of Music 49(2):11-16 (2007).
Recordings and/or Liner Note Essays
Liner Notes for “A Celebration of South American Music,” in Alma del Sur. Compact Disc, Narada (1992).
Cassette Tape. Koto Compositions of Elizabeth Falconer. “Kiro,” for shakuhachi and koto. Cassette Tape published in Japan (1994).
Compact disc. Music of the Warao of Venezuela: Song People of the Rain Forest. Included with book (see above) published by University Press of Florida (1996).
Liner Notes for “Music of the Central Andes,” in Andean Legacy. Compact Disc, Narada (1996).
Record / CD / Book / Video / DVD Reviews
Record Review of “Music of the Jívaro of Ecuador,” Ethnomusicology 18(1):186-87 (January 1974).
Record Review of “Música Indígena Makiritare,” Ethnomusicology 20(1):162-64 (January 1976).
Book Review of The Sacred Harp: A Tradition and its Music, by Buell E. Cobb, Jr., The Florida Historical Quarterly x:111-13 (July 1979)
Record Review of “Music from Saramaka: A Dynamic Afro-American Tradition,” Latin American Music Review 1(2):286-88 (1980).
Record Review of “Selk’nam Chants of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, Vols. I and II,” Latin American Music Review 1(2):289-91 (1980).
Record Review of “Soul Vine Shaman. Sinchi Yachaj: Powerful Shaman of the Napo River” and “Hekura: Yanoama Shamanism from Southern Venezuela,” Ethnomusicology 25(3): 551-53 (1981).
Record Review of “Yanoama: Tecniche Vocali Sciamanismo,” “Wayapi Guyane,” and “Music of the Haut Oyopok: Oyampi and Emerillon Indian Tribes,” Ethnomusicology 26(2):343-45 (1982).
Book Review of Voces del Purgatorio, by Martha Davis, Ethnomusicology 26(3):466-68 (1982).
Book Review of La Música Teúrgico-Mágica de los Indios Guaraos by Padre Basilio María de Barral, Ethnomusicology 28(3):561-62 (1984).
Book Review of Music and Poetry in a Colombian Village. A Tri-Cultural Heritage, by George List, Western Folklore 44(1):62-64(January 1985).
Record Review of “Bolivien. Musik im Andenhochland.Bolivia. Music in the Andean Highlands,” Yearbook(of the International Council for Traditional Music) 18:201-202 (1986).
Book Review of More than Drumming: Essays on African and Afro-Latin American Music and Musicians, edited by Irene V. Jackson, Hispanic American Historical Review (1986).
Record Review of “Peru: Ayarachi and Chiriguano,” Latin American Music Review 8(1):140-142 (1987).
Book Review of Colección de Instrumentos Musicales, by José Egnacio Perdomo Escobar, and La Música de los Guahibo: Sikuani-Cuiba, by Benjamin Yépez Chamorro, Ethnomusicology 32(3):482-484 (Fall 1988).
Record Review of Música Andina del Peru, Archivo de Música Tradicional, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, Yearbook(of the International Council for Traditional Music) 21:152-53 (1989).
Book Review of The Music of Brazil, by David P. Appleby, and Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Song. MPB 1965-1985, by Charles A. Perrone, Hispanic American Historical Review (1990).
Record Review of Música Tradicional del Valle del Mantaro, Archivo de Música Tradicional, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, Ethnomusicology 34(1):183-84 (1990).
Book Review of Second Conference of the ICTM Study Group on Music Archaeology, Volume I “General Studies” and Volume II “The Bronze Lurs, Ethnomusicology 34(1):167-170 (1990).
Record Review of Música Tradicionalde Cajamarca and Música Tradicional del Valle de Calca, Archivo de Música Tradicional, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, Ethnomusicology35(2):307-09.
Record Review of Brasil Central: Chants et danses des Indiens Kaiapo, Archives Internationales de musique populaire, Ethnomusicology 35(3):451-52 (1991).
Record Review of Huaynos & Huaylas. The Real Music of Peru, GlobeStyle Records, London, Ethnomusicology 35(3):454-55 (1991).
Book Review of Lessons from the World, by Patricia Shehan Campbell, Music Library Notes (1992).
Book Review of The Indispensable Harp, by John M. Schechter, Music Library Notes (1993).
“Briefly Noted,” Recording Reviews of China: Music of the Pipa, Nonesuch CD; Ghana: Ancient Ceremonies, Nonesuch CD; Iran: Persian Classical Music, Nonesuch CD; Japan: Shakuhachi–the Japanese Flute, Nonesuch CD; Kenya and Tanzania: Witchcraft and Ritual Music, Nonesuch CD; Mexico: Fiestas of Chiapas and Oaxaca, Nonesuch CD;West Indies: An Island Carnival, Nonesuch CD; Ethnomusicology37(1):143-48 (1993).
Book Review of Musik aus dem Altertum der Neuen Welt, by Ellen Hickmann, Music Library Notes (1993).
“Briefly Noted,” CD Reviews of China‘s Instrumental Heritage, Lyrichord CD; Mountain Music of Peru, Vol. 1, Smithsonian/Folkways CD; Classical Music of Iran. The Dastgah Systems, Smithsonian/Folkways CD; Mbuti Pygmies of the Ituri Rainforest,Smithsonian/Folkways CD; Bresel—Musiques du Haut Xingu, OCORA CD; Ethnomusicology 38(1):198-203 (1994).
Book Review of Keepers of the Sacred Chants: The Poetics of Ritual Power in an Amazonian Society, by Jonathan D. Hill, Latin American Music Review 15(2):244-52 (1994).
CD Review of Música Tradicional del Cusco and Música Tradicional de Lambayeque, Music of the World, Ltd., AMTA-5, Ethnomusicology 39(1):154-57 (1995).
CD Review of The Spirit Cries: Music from the Rainforests of South America and the Caribbean, Rykodisc RCD 10250, Ethnomusicology 39(1):165-67 (1995).
Video Review of Qoyllur Rit’i – A Woman’s Journey (directed by Gabriela Martinez Escobar, produced by Holly Wissler), Ethnomusicology 45/3:532-35 (2001)
CD Review of Jarana’s Four Aces (los cuatro ases de la jarana.) Vocal duets from the streets of Lima. Topic Records TSCD926, Ethnomusicology (Winter 2006).
DVD Review of Hanoi Eclipse: The Music of Dai Lam Linh (2010, researched, directed, and produced by Barley Norton, in Vietnamese with English subtitles, distributed by Documentary Educational Resources). Yearbook, ICTM (2013).
Book Review of Flower World: Music Archaeology of the Americas/Mundo Florido: Arqueomusicología de las Américas, ed. by Matthias Stöckli and Arnd Adje Both. World of Music (new series) Journal (2014).
Book Review of Kokopelli: Flute Player Images in Rock Art, by Dennis Slifer and James Duffield, in Flute Journal (www.flutejournal.com), (2017).
Internet Materials
Music Cultures of the World with Dr. O. An online course with streamed audio and video materials.
Ethnomusicology as Advocacy. Music Cultural Survival Surveys. A series of music cultural introductions of societies in peril, in transition, or near extinction. Dale A. Olsen, ed. “Warao Indians of Venezuela” by Dale A. Olsen
Other Publications
“Brochure,” “Abstracts,” and “Program” for the 28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, October 20-23, 1983. Held at the Florida State Conference Center, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, and Hosted by The Florida State University and co-sponsored by the School of Music, The Center for Black Culture, and the Florida Department of State, George Firestone, Secretary.
“A message from the President.” Florida Folklore Society Newsletter, December 1988/January 1989.
“Into the World,” The President’s Comments, Newsletter of The College Music Society, January (1999).
“CMS: The ‘Complementarity’ Music Society,” The President’s Comments, Newsletter of The College Music Society, March (1999).
“Japan is Calling Us to its Shores,” The President’s Comments, Newsletter of The College Music Society, May (1999).
“Welcome from The College Music Society President.” Schedule – Abstracts – Program Notes for The College Music Society International Conference in Kyoto, June 28-July 1, 1999.
“Globalization and Speciesism: Musical Thoughts for a Small World,” The President’s Comments, Newsletter of The College Music Society, September (1999).
“Happy Fortieth Anniversary!” The President’s Comments, Newsletter of The College Music Society, November (1999).
“We are the Doctors” The President’s Comments, Newsletter of The College Music Society, January (2000).
“A New Nationalism for a New Millennium,” The President’s Comments, Newsletter of The College Music Society, March (2000).
“Stages in Musical Performance,” The President’s Comments, Newsletter of The College Music Society, May (2000).
“Welcome to Toronto!” Special Edition of the Newsletter of The College Music Society for Toronto 2000: Musical Intersections.
“Ethnomusicology and World Music–Understanding the Difference,” Reprinted from Newsletter of the College Music Society (May 1992), in “Program Booklet: of Worlds of Music at UCLA, Celebrating 50 Years of Ethnomusicology 1960-2010, Alumni Symposium Conference at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, November 9, 2010.
Unpublished Manuscripts — completed or in progress
“Musical Chant Formulas, Faith, and Subjectivity Is Truth: A Kierkegaardian Analysis of Healing and Inflicting Music Among the Warao of Venezuela” (completed article).
“The Double Pipers of Etruria: From Ancient Etruscan Music and Dance in the Afterlife to Modern Musical Threads of Continuity and Faith in the Hills of Lazio and Tuscany, Italy” (completed article).
Music of Peru’s People. Completed book MS finished in 1990, written and edited by Dale Olsen, with four chapters and Conclusion by Olsen and three chapters and Forward by other scholars. Chapters include: Forward; Introduction; 1) Cultural Modulations in Afro-Peruvian Musical History; 2) Peruvian Folk Harp Traditions: Determinants of Style; 3) Musical and Cultural Pluralism in the Panpipe Traditions of the Peruvian Altiplano; 4) Musical Syncretism in the Patronal Folk Festivals of the Northern and Central Peruvian Highlands; 5) The Evolution of Two Charango Traditions in Southern Peru as a Product of Socio-economic Change; 6) Modernization in the Mountain Music of Peru; and 7) Conclusion.
A Musical Classification of Native South Americans. Completed book MS. Several versions of the MS exist, all based on my field research conducted in South America between 1971-74, and secondary sources by earlier and contemporary scholars. Alternative titles include (1984) Native South American Ethnic Identification: A Musico-linguistic Model; (1985) A Musical Classification of Native South American Shamanistic Curing Songs; (1986) Shamanistic Music as a Determinant of Ethnic Identification: An Application to Some Northern South American Indian Cultures; and (1986) The Musical Classification of Native South American Shamanistic Curing Songs. Chapters include: 1) Introduction; 2) The Warao; 3) The Yanomami; 4) The Makiritare; 5) The Pemon; 6) The Akawaio; and 7) Other Considerations. The MS includes 70 musical notations (transcriptions) of shaman songs.
The Joy of World Music Cultures: An Interactive Online Text-site (completed electronic book).
Study Guide and Workbook for “The Joy of World Music Cultures” (completed book).
Music and Sojourning in Panama, The Crossroads of the World (unfinished book).
The Ethnomusicology of Faith: Views of a Christian Ethnomusicologist (unfinished book).
Ethno-Music-Iconology: Cultural Significance of Musical Representation in Art and Artifact in a World Context (unfinished book)