Ida Halpern
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Ida Halpern was a Canadian ethnomusicologist.
Born in Vienna
, Austria
, Halpern became a Canadian citizen in 1944. She worked among Native Americans
of coastal
British Columbia
(particularly the Kwakiutl
) during the mid-20th century, collecting, recording, and transcribing their music and documenting its use in their culture. Many of these recordings were released as LPs, with extensive liner notes and transcriptions. Halpern died in Vancouver
.
Ida Helpern received a Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Vienna in 1938 where she studies under Robert Lach, Egon Wellesz and Robert Haas. She taught at the University of Shanghai, the University of British Columbia, and was an Honorary Associate, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia.
Born in Vienna
Vienna
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, Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
, Halpern became a Canadian citizen in 1944. She worked among Native Americans
First Nations
First Nations is a term that collectively refers to various Aboriginal peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis. There are currently over 630 recognised First Nations governments or bands spread across Canada, roughly half of which are in the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia. The...
of coastal
British Columbia Coast
The British Columbia Coast or BC Coast is Canada's western continental coastline on the Pacific Ocean. The usage is synonymous with the term West Coast of Canada....
British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
(particularly the Kwakiutl
Kwakiutl
The term Kwakiutl, historically applied to the entire Kwakwaka'wakw ethno-linguistic group of originally 28 tribes, comes from one of the Kwakwaka'wakw tribes, the Kwagu'ł or Kwagyeulth, at Fort Rupert, with whom Franz Boas did most of his anthropological work and whose Indian Act Band government...
) during the mid-20th century, collecting, recording, and transcribing their music and documenting its use in their culture. Many of these recordings were released as LPs, with extensive liner notes and transcriptions. Halpern died in Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
.
External links
- Ida Halpern at The Canadian EncyclopediaThe Canadian EncyclopediaThe Canadian Encyclopedia is a source of information on Canada. It is available online, at no cost. The Canadian Encyclopedia is available in both English and French and includes some 14,000 articles in each language on a wide variety of subjects including history, popular culture, events, people,...
Ida Helpern received a Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Vienna in 1938 where she studies under Robert Lach, Egon Wellesz and Robert Haas. She taught at the University of Shanghai, the University of British Columbia, and was an Honorary Associate, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia.