Seavoy, Mary
Mary Seavoy, a graduate of UCLA, received her Ph.D in ethnomusicology and produced a dissertation entitled "The Sisaala Xylophone Tradition" (1982). The document was supported by Seavoy’s fieldwork in Ghana under a grant from NDEA Title VI (1970-1972). In 1975, she was Visiting Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at the World Campus Afloat (Caribbean and Mediterranean) and Champan College in Orange, California. Her published works include "Key Design, Material Properties, and Temperature Factors in Frequency Variation of Sisaala Jengsi (xylophone) Keys" (1980), jacket notes for An American Mass Program, (1962), and the appendix on musical terminology to the Sisaala-English, English-Sisaala Dictionary (1974).
Archive call number: Collection 75.3
34 sound tape reels: Field recordings made by Mary Seavoy in Ghana and Sisala, 1974. Parts of collection described in collector’s Ph.D. dissertation, "The Sisaala Xylophone Tradition," UCLA, 1982. Contents: xylophone music of the Sisala people.