Hampton, Barbara
Barbara Hampton is currently Professor of Ethnomusicology and Director of the Graduate Program in Ethnomusicology in the Department of Music at Hunter College of the City University of New York. She earned her MA from UCLA and wrote a thesis entitled "Adowa Lala: A Synchronic Analysis of Ga Funeral Music" (1972). Hampton earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University. Hampton has since published a study of women in college music programs entitled The Status of Women in College Music 1976-77: A Statistical Study (1980), served on the national Executive Board of the Society for Ethnomusicology, and contributed to a number of publications (e.g., Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, the JVC Anthology of Music and Dance in the Americas, and the International Encyclopedia of Dance).
Archive call number: Collection 72.6
2 sound reel tapes: Field recordings made by Barbara Hampton near Accra, Ghana, March 1971. Contents: music of the Ga and Ashanti peoples of Ghana.
Archive call number: Collection 72.7
2 sound tape reels: Field recordings made by Barbara Hampton in Mozambique, 1972. Contents: vocal music from the Limpopo Valley and radio broadcasts from Mozambique.