Dale Olsen

Dale A. Olsen (born July 10, 1941 in Albert Lea , Minnesota ) is an American flautist, musicologist and teacher.

Olsen studied music history and flute at the University of Minnesota until 1966 . He then went to Santiago de Chile with his wife as a volunteer in the Peace Corps and became principal flutist in the Philharmonic Orchestra of Chile. In 1973 he received his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles . He then began teaching at Florida State University , where he was a Distinguished Research Professor from 2001 until his retirement in 2008 .

Olsen carried out music ethnology research in South America, Italy, China, Korea, Tonga, Japan, Ireland, Vietnam, Thailand and Panama. He published more than a hundred publications, including seven books. For Music of the Warao of Venezuela: Song People of the Rain Fores he received the Merriam Prize in 1997 for the most outstanding music ethnological book. He was the editor of Music of Latin America and co-editor of the second volume of the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music . His articles have appeared in journals such as the Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society , the Asian Music Journal , the Journal Ethnomusicology , the Latin American Music Review , the College Music Symposium, and the Journal of Latin American Lore .

As a flautist, Olsen also played various indigenous instruments from South America in addition to the recorder and transverse flute and received a Shihan diploma for the Japanese Shakuhachi (as a student of Tsuna Iwami ).

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• Music of the Warao of Venezuela: Song People of the Rain Forest
• Popular Music of Vietnam: The Politics of Remembering, The Economics of Forgetting
• Musics of Many Cultures: Study Guide and Workbook
• Music of El Dorado: The Ethnomusicology of Ancient South American Cultures
• The Chrysanthemum and the Song: Music, Memory, and Identity in the South American Japanese Diaspora
• The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music

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• The Florida State University - Dale A. Olsen Collection
• The Florida State University - Dale Olsen - Professor of Ethnomusicology