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                                       Ph.D. title
                       
                      The recovery and preservation of Maltese folk music
                         and its eventual dissemination through new media

Table of Contents

Certificate of Authorship Acknowledgments Acronyms Abstract

Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 Background, object and significance of the study

1.2 Conventions and treaties on intangible heritage

    (UNESCO - convention and definition of IH; Action programmes including The Memory of the   
    World: Digitization and Preservation. The special status of FADO as world heritage.)
       

1.3 Cultural management in the construction of ethnicity and national longing

      (Gellner, Brennan, Cesaire, Bendrups, Nagel, Fusina, Quilici, Wendrips)

1.4 Specialist entities that safeguard IH

    (IASA, ARSC, FIAF and European Union programmes Europeana, TAPE, Dismarc, National     
    legislations, etc...)

1.5 Brief analysis of topic of research

    (Why Malta? Observe cultural vision reports, international strategies to recover and   
    preserve, Malta as case study, nations that can adopt proposed model. Importance of online  
    open source sites, e.g. M3P and blogs)

Chapter 2. Literature Review

KNOWLEDGE AND COMPREHENSION OF Literature Review, Simple Comparision, Discuss

      What has been written about music recovery, preservation and dissemination? Existing  
      articles and contributions read and reviewed. 

2.1 Recovery works by Alan Lomax, Cecil Sharp, Tulla Magrini, Felix Quilici etc.

      Discuss.  

      (ensuring longevity of Maltese folk music - what Lomax did and what is being done today to  
      his collection in U.S.)

      (Armenian Institute, memory studies Iceland, Lund Centre of Archives. M3P, organization
      support FNAM ) ITMA, Louisiana Digital Folklore Archive, Singapore Archives, St. Kitts &  
      Nevis Archives, Swiss National Archives.

      Guze Cassar Pullicino, Gorg Mifsud Chircop, Anna Borg Cardona, Charles Camilleri, Steve   
      Borg (why is my study important; recovery - identified lacunae, no guardian of previous  
      works or continuity, no preservation policies and no effective dissemination).
    

2.2 Preservation British Archives, Library of Congress, Singapore Archives, NAVCC

      Programme Irene, 

2.2.1 The ongoing debate on what to preserve or not (retention schedule re-IH, example Louis

      Armstrong Archives); preservation vrs/or/and archiving     

2.3 Dissemination Radio Aragones, Cajun, Folkways Radio, Social networks

      Dissemination pre-media, dissemination in new media technologies, (echo chamber  
      defination in new media), crowdsourcing, crowdfunding.

Chapter 3 Methodology

3.1 Identification of research title

3.2 Objectives sought through Qualitative and quantitative research (Marshall & Rossman: 2011; Seale 2011; Berg 1989)

3.3 Theoretical framework

3.4 Designing the research methodology

3.5 Collection, categorizing and analysis of data

3.6 Ethical considerations and consent

     Methods - after analyzing methodology, what shall I be doing and how. The prognosis of  
     failure (e.g. Maltese initiatives re-vinyl, għana traditional sources vrsa modern folk  
     outreach strategies; South African archive...)

Chapter 4 Maltese folk music: background on this cultural dichotomy scapegoat

4.1 Għana: its spirit and various models

4.2 The silent war between sacred and folk music

4.3 The early British era 1800-1850

4.4 Police enforcement and folk music

4.5 The revival of the Imnarja festivities

4.6 Etnika and other recovery projects

4.7 Emergence of modern folk, and new attitudes

Chapter 5 Recovery

      i) field works experiences of Alan Lomax, Edward Jones, Cecil Sharp, Tulla Magrini, Felix   
         Quilici, Klemenc etc. 

     ii) Rebunking the myth that all is lost in the field: the Maltese perspective

    iii) the zaqq recordings, vinyl folk releases, ghana reels (on meeting Malta's Lomax)    

     iv) collecting unknown/released existing material currently dispersed
         vinyl, reels, cassettes e.g. Toscana folk, ROAS, Bosnia.

Chapter 5 Preservation

       i) recommendations by IASA, FIAF and UNESCO

      ii) resources and funding

    iiia) case references re codes of pratice: ITMA, Singapore, Slovenia, Caribbean states,   
          National Australian Sound Archives surveys/reports

    iiib) Maltese national entities culture policies 

          analysis and critique of 

     iva) National Memory Project NAM 

     ivb) Malta Music Memory Project M3P (as open resource databank and archive)

Chapter Dissemination

      ia) European Union’s Digital Agenda 2020
      ib) Europeana Project 
    
          Radio Aragones (promoter of Aragonese folk)

      iia) User-generated content - the Newland-Pratt report

     iiia) i  Audience engagement - The Wallace report
           ii Use of social networks - myspace, twitter and facebook 

     iiib) i   contemporary folk event promotion in Malta through social network - 
           ii  the KV outreach experiment for April 2012 musico-literary event
           iii findings of select focus group scheduled Summer 2012
         
      iva) Malta Music Memory Project M3P (as broadcaster)

8. Conclusion

9. Bibliography

Seperate Reading Lists in three sections on:

Recovery, Preservation, Dissemination

Each list has to have related keywords.