Audio recordings and field materials from ethnomusicologists documenting musical traditions from around the world.
Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings is comprised of more than 60 field collections from ethnomusicologists dating from the mid-twentieth century to the early twenty-first century. Produced in collaboration with the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, this resource also features material from the University of Washington Ethnomusicology Archive relating to ethnomusicologist Robert Garfias.
The audio recordings, videos, field notebooks, and journals in this resource document musical traditions and how music interacts with different societies and cultures all over the globe. There are recordings from Alaska to the Pacific Islands, West Africa to Indonesia, including religious music, secular music, celebrations, and funerals. There are interviews with musicians, slides, and photographs of field sites and photographs of instruments being played and in isolation.
This resource provides a wealth of materials for the interdisciplinary study of ethnomusicology; whether the focus is on music, anthropology, dance, religion, or spirituality.
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