• Today Has Been Hard: A Sonic Account on the Simultaneous Fall of Human Rights in Finland and Norway 

  Renzi, Nicola (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

  25 February 2023 has been hard to the Sámi indigenous peoples of northern Fennoscandia and Russian Kola. In fact, it will be undoubtedly remembered as one of the toughest days in Sámi recent history. On one side, a group ...
• Belonging in the Mix: Indigenous and Minority Popular Musics in the Hip Hop Mainstream 

  Przybylski, Liz (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

  Whose sounds fit in the nation-state? Always a politicized question, an exploration of popular music that enters the mainstream offers one way into interconnected questions about belonging. In Canada in particular, a recent ...
• Claiming Indigenous Sovereignty Online: Ponay’s Yuan (Indigenous) Style Cover of Mandopop Songs on YouTube 

  Tai, Chun Chia (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

  Since the 2010s, the younger generations of Taiwanese Indigenous musicians developed a new online musical space via Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube to present, argue, and celebrate their Indigeneity. In regard to internet, ...
• Preserving Minority Music Through Intellectual Property Rights: An Integrative Approach to Ascertain a Common Global Mindedness 

  Lekamge, Upul Priyankara (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

  The power and the beauty of minority music have never been questioned as the cultures of the world come into contact irrespective of westernization, or globalization. With the advent of the internet, minority music has ...
• The Reality of Practicing Performing Arts among Ethnic Communities Living in Chittagong Hill Tracts Area: Post 1997 Peace Accord Context 

  Sayeem, Rana (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

  Although a relatively small country, Bangladesh is inhabited by almost fifty different ethnic groups having their own cultural identities. The current paper focuses on the reality of practicing performing arts among ethnic ...
• Sonic Activism: Naga Song Responses to Political Conflict 

  Poske, Christian (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

  How have songs aided the efforts of Nagas to establish a nation-state whose intended boundaries conflicted with those left by the British Empire? How have Nagas responded with their songs to colonial and postcolonial ...
• To Participate or to Present: Dance as Embodied Knowledge / Specialized Skill 

  Munsi, Urmimala Sarkar (Munsi Urmimala Sarkar (2023), To Participate or to Present: Dance as Embodied Knowledge / Specialized Skill, 12th Symposium of the ICTMD study group on music and minorities with a joint day with the study group on indigenous music and dance, Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

  This paper aims to analyze the educational potential of community dances exhibited as ‘tribal’ dances in festivals such as Hornbill (Nagaland) and Sangai (Manipur). Such annual congregations are occasions for the exhibited ...
• Tribal Music of Sri Lanka: A Qualitative Research on the Singing Style of the Dambana Indigenous People 

  Tilakaratna, Dasith Asela; Weerakkody, Iranga Samindani (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

  Indigenous people (Ādivāsi) are usually an isolated community with a specific language, culture and way of life belonging to generations, endemic to each country or region. While indegenous communities are the inheritors ...
• The Impact of Colonization, Urbanization, and Trans-Cultural Diffusion on Vedda People’s Music and Dance from the 17th to 21st Centuries in Sri Lanka 

  Guruge, Nadeeka (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

  Vedda people are considered the earliest inhabitants of the Island of Sri Lanka. Historical records from the 17th century disclose that the Vedda community has been subjected to rapid transformation during the past three ...
• Impact of Cultural Tourism on the Music of the Sri Lankan Aboriginal Community Known as the Veddas 

  Alawathukotuwa, Manoj (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

  Among all Sri Lankan minorities, the Veddas are widely considered the last indigenous tribal community in the country. Majority of them are living in the forest villages in Eastern and Sabaragamuwa provinces with minimum ...
• Music Acting as a Bridge between Ethnic Groups: An Activist Research on the Creation Project of “Crossing Ridges— Appreciating the Bunun Music Story” 

  Tseng, Yuh-Fen (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

  The Bunun is a Taiwan indigenous group residing extensively in various parts of the Central Mountain Range since ancient times. The Bunun people have been practicing a unique way of polyphonic singing; their genre called ...
• Home Coming: A Record of Soundscape and Livelihood of Spring Festival in a Kam Village 

  Cheng, Zhiyi Qiaoqiao (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

  I would like to give a presentation with talk and image on the diaspora of music and rituals originating from East-Africa across Indian Ocean. At the Spring festival (Chinese New Year)’s Eve, Fengyun finished the work ...
• Songs and Stories of Migration and Encounter in Unama’ki: Ukrainian Settler Communities, Intercultural Relationships, and Collaborative Research-Creation toward Reconciliation 

  Ostashewski, Marcia (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

  In 2022, members of the Holy Ghost Ukrainian Parish in Unama’ki (Cape Breton) engaged in a process of relationship-building with local Mi’kmaw people, toward Reconciliation. Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission ...
• Music and Rituals of the Minority Communities of African Descent around the Indian Ocean 

  Linden, Neil van der (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

  I would like to give a presentation with talk and image on the diaspora of music and rituals originating from East-Africa across Indian Ocean. Around the Indian Ocean there were numerous nations and empires that absorbed ...
• The Tradition and Contemporary Changes of the Kazakh Musical Instrument Dombra in the Altay Region 

  Shan, Zhang (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

  Dombra is a representative instrument of the Kazakhs, which is popular in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Kazakhstan, and parts of Mongolia. Based on six years of fieldwork, the author presents the traditional ...
• Theoretical Aspects of the Preservation and Reduction of Traditional Wedding Rituals of the Volga German Ethnic Minority in the Russian Federation 

  Shishkina, Elena Mikhailovna (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

  The paper presents the author’s new theoretical ideas based on the wedding rituals of the Volga German ethnic minority in Russia (1764-present). New conclusions about these rituals at various stages and changes provide a ...
• Dabus Variant: The Acclimatization of Dabus in Malaysian Political Landscape 

  Shah, Abdul Azeem (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

  Dabus is a ritual art form practiced by communities in both Malaysia and Indonesia. Its arrival in Malaysia over 300 years ago, has seen various adaptations made to adapt it to the Malaysian context. Policies such as the ...
• Malaysian Chinese Art Song Competitions: An Invented Tradition Bridging Past and Future 

  Chih, Samuel Tan Hsien (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

  The Malaysian Chinese art song has its past as a transnational "variant" of the European art song and a lineage from both the Chinese art song and revolutionary song. The genre combines musical realms from the West and the ...
• Composing the Malaysian: Reflecting on Shared Spaces in Malaysian Contemporary Compositions and Composers 

  Nithyanandan, Jotsna (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

  Malaysia is a country that is diverse and hybrid in its ethnic make-up and culture but steeped in an ethno-national ideological rubric through which everything is sieved or evaluated, resulting in binary constructs of the ...
• Javanese Wayang Kulit in Malaysia: Early Diasporas and Current (trans)Locality(ies) 

  Santaella, Mayco A. (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023)

  The transmigration program was initiated by the Dutch in the 1910’s and continued to develop with the Indonesian government after independence in 1945, making it one of the largest resettlements schemes of the 20th century. ...

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