Archive Awarded GRAMMY Preservation Grant
The UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive has been awarded a preservation implementation grant by the Grammy Foundation®, according to the Foundation’s April 16th, 2009, press release. The Archive’s proposal was selected for funding from among many submissions because of the importance of the material to be preserved, the technical qualifications of the project staff, and the leading role played by the UCLA Digital Library in providing secure digital storage and online access to some of the Archives collections. This prestigious award will be used to preserve and create access to part of the D.K. Wilgus Collection that documents the music and aural Folklife of the western United States with a focus on California. Contents include field recordings from California, rural Oklahoma, and Texas; interviews of noted folklorists, musicians, and storytellers; workshops, and lectures. Information on materials from this collection that have already been processed on a previous Grammy Foundation® award is available at www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/archive. This includes parts of the D.K. Wilgus Archive of California and Western Folklore, the D. K. Wilgus Western Kentucky Folklore Archive, the UCLA Folk Festival, field recordings by David Evans, and several smaller collections. Many of these recordings are being made available through the UCLA Digital Library.
See the GRAMMY Foundation press release and a complete list of recipients:
http://content.grammy.com/PressReleases/582_640_2009grantspr.pdf
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