The EAR is an informal discussion of ethnomusicology and archives at UCLA and beyond. It is issued four times a year, in the fall, winter, spring, and summer quarters. Contributions from readers are welcome and should be sent to the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive: archive@arts.ucla.edu

Vol. 3, no. 3 (Spring 2003)

Table of Contents
Louise Spear Retires from UCLA
John Vallier Re-Appointed as Archivist
Archive receives over $60,000 in grants
Where is Your Thesis?
Collection Updates
  • Lise Paret Limardo de Vela Collection
  • Edward LeVeque Collection
  • Radio Promos Continue to Roll In
    Professor Kenny Burrell on KCET
    Yanni Afendoulis Wins Award
    Louise Spear Retires from UCLA
    After almost 20 years of working in the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, Louise Spear has decided to retire from UCLA effective July 1, 2003, to pursue other opportunities. We will miss Louise because she has been such an integral part of the Department of Ethnomusicology. Not only has she supported many of the department's programmatic and professional activities, she always went out of her way to help faculty, students, and visitors.

    I hope that you will join me in wishing Louise all the best and much success in her future endeavors.

    Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje
    Director, Ethnomusicology Archive

    John Vallier Re-Appointed as Archivist
    As a result of Louise Spear's retirement, John Vallier has been reappointed to the position of Archivist for the 2003-04 academic-year. His one-year, full-time appointment began on July 1st, 2003.
    Ethnomusicology Archive receives over $60,000 in grants
    The Ethnomusicology Archive, established in 1961, is the third largest ethnographic-based sound recording collection in North America. We are pleased to announce that this year the Archive has been awarded over $60,000 in grants!

    The Archive has been awarded a $22,000 Grammy Foundation grant to initiate the digitization of its collections of Native American field recordings. Known as the First Nations Audio Preservation Project, the venture will preserve selected sound recordings in a manner that meets the current standards of archival-level preservation. Beginning with a 1937 recording of Winnebago song and ending with a 1981 recording of Diegueño music, these one-of-a-kind recordings cover nearly half a century of Native American musics and contain over 200 hours of recorded sound. In addition to their vast time span, the recordings also document an amazing array of music cultures. From Alaskan Eskimo performances to Zuni Rain Dance rites, these 225 unpublished recordings include sounds from 65 distinct Native American music cultures. (A Grammy press release with details about all of the 27 funded projects is available here: http://www.grammy.com/press/press_releases/2003/0401a.html)

    The Archive has been awarded a $9,520 UCLA OID Instructional Improvement Grant to assist in expanding multimedia resources for "Musical Cultures of the World" (ESM 20A/B/C). The Ethnomusicology program at UCLA has offered this popular series of world music classes since the 1960s. Central to the success of the 20-series is the faculty's use of multimedia materials. From sound recordings to interactive websites, to moving images and still photographs, multimedia materials form the core of the 20-series course material. The UCLA OID Instructional Improvement Grant will allow the Archive to digitize and make more accessible selected photos, sound recordings, and moving images, thus providing the 20-series students and faculty with a richer and more complete palate of multimedia resources.

    The Archive, in collaboration with Kayamanan Ng Lahi Philippine Folk Arts (http://www.kayamanan.org/), has been awarded a $29,850 UCLA in LA Community Partnership Grant to document, preserve, promote, and increase access to Philippine and Philippine-American music in the Los Angeles area. Entitled "Archiving Filipino-American Music in LA," the yearlong project will pair the Archive's resources and skills with Kayamanan Ng Lahi's talents and stature within Los Angeles' Filipino-American community. The project's four main objectives are: 1) to create a new collection that documents Filipino-American music in LA; 2) to preserve and increase access to recordings already held by UCLA and the community; 3) to compile a discography of pertinent Archive holdings; and 4) to host an end-of-the-project symposium at UCLA.

    If you would like to learn more about these or other Archive projects, please do not hesitate to contact us.

    Where is Your Thesis?
    Are you an MA or Ph.D. graduate from the Department of Ethnomusicology? If so, have you deposited a copy of your thesis or dissertation in the Ethnomusicology Archive? One of the primary responsibilities of the Archive is to collect, preserve, and provide access to the dissertations and theses written by Department of Ethnomusicology graduates. If you have not deposited a copy or your thesis or dissertation into the Archive, please send us a copy. And whether or not you are affiliated with UCLA, if you would like to deposit your field recordings or a collection of commercially produced non-Western sound recordings into the Archive, please contact us.
    Collection Updates
    Lise Paret Limardo de Vela Collection (2003.2) This past April Dr. Linda Rothe-O'Brien donated a collection of 16 open reel tapes to the Archive. Recorded by Lise Paret Limardo-an MD from Hatia-the recordings contain numerous examples of Guatemalan indigenous music. As Rothe-O'Brien writes, "Dra. Lise Paret Limardo de Vela came to Guatemala from Haiti in the early 1960s. She collected indigenous music of Guatemala in 1962 for Guatemala's Instituto Indigenista. Her collection includes music of the Cakchiquel, Tzutuhil and Quiché Maya of the central highlands. She is also the author of La Danza del Venado en Guatemala, Ministerio de Educación Pública, "Colección Contemporáneos" 75 (Guatemala, 1963)." Listening copies of the recordings are available in the Archive (call number 2003.2).

    Edward LeVeque Collection (2003.3) Early in this past spring quarter, Katie Moore, Maureen Russell, John Vallier, and Jesse Wheeler spent their Saturday cleaning, boxing, and then moving approximately 1,500 78rpm recordings to the Archive. The records once belonged to Edward LeVeque, a local DJ who was one of the original Keystone Cops and who as a child helped run arms for Pancho Villa. The collection consists of Mexican and Mexican-American commercial recordings that date from the 1940s and 1950s. The recordings were donated to the Archive by Peter Stenshoel, a local record collector and sound designer.

    World Music Promos Continue to Roll In Many World Music record companies continue to send the Archive promos for our radio show, "Sounds from the Vaults." We wish to express our thanks to these organizations by noting their donations below:

    ARC Music Productions: Bangaladish, Hassouna. Music from Sudan. East Grinstead, West Sussex, Great Britain: ARC Music Productions, p2003. EUCD1799; Kanouté, Pape. Griot from Senegal. East Grinstead, West Sussex, Great Britain: ARC Music Productions, p2003. EUCD1804; Ramzy, Hossam. Classical Egyptian dance: el-sultaan.East Grinstead, West Sussex, Great Britain: ARC Music Productions, p2003. EUCD1803; Bhangra: original punjabi pop. East Grinstead, West Sussex, Great Britain: ARC Music Productions, p2003. EUCD1795;

    Music Mosaic: Didgeridoo groove. Mullumbimby, NSW, Australia: Music Mosaic, p2003. MM-CD-295; Groove magic. Mullumbimby, NSW, Australia: Music Mosaic, p2003. MM-CD-296; Lotus groove. Mullumbimby, NSW, Australia: Music Mosaic, p2001. MM-CD-169; Dance planet. Mullumbimby, NSW, Australia: Music Mosaic, p2001. MM-CD-198;

    Tinder Records: Ar Bras, Dan. Made in Breizh. San Rafael, CA: Tinder Records, 2002. 861072. Bakewell, Anderson. The Yemen Tihama: trance & dance music from the Red Sea coast of Arabia. London: Topic Records, p2002. TSCD920;

    Rupayan Sansthan Archives: Arrow of word pierced by heart. Jodhpur, India: Rupayan Sansthan Archives, c2002. RACD 0002; At your lotus feet. Jodhpur, India: Rupayan Sansthan Archives, c2002. RACD 0006; Have I gone astray. Jodhpur, India: Rupayan Sansthan Archives, c2002. RACD 0003; Langa children: in process of learning. Jodhpur, India: Rupayan Sansthan Archives, c2002; Manganiar children: in process of learning. Jodhpur, India: Rupayan Sansthan Archives, c2002; Renounced the worldly shame. Jodhpur, India: Rupayan Sansthan Archives, c2002. RACD 0004; Tell arrogant Rana! Jodhpur, India: Rupayan Sansthan Archives, c2002. RACD 0010; Wedding dream. Jodhpur, India: Rupayan Sansthan Archives, c2002. RACD 0011; Whisper of love. Jodhpur, India: Rupayan Sansthan Archives, c2002. RACD 0001; Who can stop me from loving. Jodhpur, India: Rupayan Sansthan Archives, c2002. RACD 0005.

    Smithsonian Folkways: Gutiérrez, José, jarocho musician. La bamba: sones jarochos from Veracruz. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, p2003. SFW CD 40505; Seeger, Pete. American favorite ballads. Vol. 2. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, p2003. SFW CD 4015;

    Professor Kenny Burrell Profiled on KCET

    Ethnomusicology and jazz professor Kenny Burrell was featured on a local PBS television station, KCET on Thursday, July 10, 2003. The segment celebrated Burrell's 25 years of service at UCLA, and featured an interview with the jazzman, as well as video provided by the Ethnomusicology Archive. Kenny Burrell is one of the most respected jazz artists in the world. He has been active from 1951 to the present as a guitarist and composer in a variety of musical contexts including solo, small combo, large ensemble and symphony orchestra. He is a producer and recording artist whose extensive discography includes the critically acclaimed Guitar Forms; Ellington is Forever; and Kenny Burrell and John Coltrane. He has recorded 96 albums under his own name and several hundred with other artists. He has performed and recorded with many of the most influential musicians in jazz history including Duke Ellington, Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Oscar Peterson, Tony Bennett, Billy Holiday, and Quincy Jones. He is recognized as a foremost authority on the music of Duke Ellington and has taught a course that he created, "Ellingtonia," while at UCLA. As a composer, he has received several commissions, including one which resulted in a world premiere at New York's Lincoln Center with the famous Boys Choir of Harlem.

    Yanni Afendoulis Wins Book Competition

    Yanni Afendoulis, Archive assistant and a recent graduate from UCLA departments of Ethnomusicology and History, has earned First Prize, Undergraduate, at the annual Robert B. and Blanche Campbell Student Book Collection Competition. The Robert B. and Blanche Campbell Student Book Collection Competition is sponsored by the gift of the late Mr. & Mrs. Robert Campbell, the Friends of the UCLA Library, the Library Staff Association, the UCLA Library, and other interested donors to stimulate student interest in book collecting and reading. This is an annual competition in which undergraduates and graduate students at UCLA are given the opportunity to display their aptitude in assembling and organizing book collections. Mr. Afendoulis' winning entry is entitled: "The Eastern Orthodox: A Collection of Books and Cultural Items from a Former Eastern Orthodox Monk."

    For more information about The Robert B. and Blanche Campbell Student Book Collection Competition: http://www.library.ucla.edu/committees/campbell/

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