Garfias, Robert
Robert Garfias is currently Professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Irvine. For the past seven years Professor Garfias has focused on the topic of public policy and the arts. As a member of the National Council on the Arts and numerous state and local arts agencies, Professor Garfias has been particularly concerned with such issues as ethnicity and cultural diversity. In the meanwhile he has also continued his long-term research on the analysis of complex music systems, most recently on the Turkish Ottoman Classical system. He has served as President of the Society of Ethnomusicology, member of the National Council on the Arts of NEA for more than ten years, and member of the Smithsonian Institution Council (1987-93). His areas of study include Japanese Gagaku (1958-60), the Philippines (1965), Korea (1966), Zimbabwe and Mozambique (1971), Burma (1973-74), Romania (1977), Okinawa (1985 and 1989), Mexico and Central America (1964, 1968, 1972, and 1975), and Turkey (1991-94). Garfias received both his MA and Ph.D. from UCLA.
Archive call number: Tapes 400-482
53 sound tape reels: Field recordings made by Robert Garfias in Japan and Los Angeles, 1957-62. Contents: gagaku, bugaku, nagauta, shomyo, no, and Japanese folk music.