Taive Särg - Estonia

Taive Särg

Date of birth: 01/17/1962
E-mail: taive@folklore.ee


Career
Institution and position held
2005 - ... Estonian Literary Museum; Senior Researcher
2000 - 2005 Estonian Literary Museum; Researcher
1995 - 1999 Institute of the Estonian Language; Researcher
1987 - 1994 Institute of the Estonian Language; Assistant

Education
2005 PhD (folkloristics), University of Tartu
1998 MA (folkloristics), University of Tartu
1991 BA (folkloristics), University of Tartu

Administrative responsibilities
2005 - ... The Board Member of The Academic Folklore Society
2001 - ... The European Seminar for Ethnomusicology, fellow
2001 - ... The Estonian Society of Musicology, fellow
1995 - ... The International Council for Traditional Music, fellow

Additional information
Tartu University, the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folkloristics, based payment lecturer of Estonian folk music, since 2000.
Tartu University, the Department of Music Pedagogic, based payment lecturer of Estonian folk music, 2001-2005.
The Tartu Music High School, based payment lecturer of Estonian folk music, 2001-2006.
Tartu University, the Viljandi Culture Academy, based payment lecturer of ethnomusicology, since 2006.
Tartu University, the Department of Pedagogic, based payment lecturer of Estonian traditional culture, since 2006.
Tartu University, the Department of Pedagogic, based payment lecturer of Estonian folk calender, since 2007.

Research activity
Degree information
Taive Särg, Doctor's Degree, 2005, (sup) Jaan Ross, Eesti keele prosoodia ning teksti ja viisi seosed regilaulus (Estonian Prosody and Words/Music Relationships in Estonian Old Folk Songs), University of Tartu, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Literature and Folklore
Taive Särg, Master's Degree, 1998, (sup) Ingrid Rüütel, Püsiv ja muutuv Karksi regilaulus (Stable and Unstable Elements in Runosongs from Karksi Parish), University of Tartu

Honours & Awards
1998, Taive Särg; The First Prize at The Competition of Master Works, organized by The Estonian Ministry of Education

Field of research
Culture and Society, Aesthetics and Arts Research (The connections between music, language and group identity, The history of Estonian ethnomusicology)

Current grants & projects
Perspectives of music in constructing the Estonian open identity

Dissertations under supervision
Katrin Soon, MA / MSc Student, (sup) Taive Särg, Setu kandlemängu traditsioon, University of Tartu

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