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NEW ACQUISITION: Collection from Former Radio Host and Publisher of ‘The Beat’ Magazine

ambittel — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 22:24:59 +0000

The Ethnomusicology Archive has recently acquired a collection of nearly 10,000 commercial recordings featuring music from Africa and the worldwide African diaspora. The collection comes from CC Smith, a well-known radio host of world music shows on local stations KCRW, KPFK, KCSN and KXLU since the early 1980s. She was also publisher of “The Beat,” a world music magazine that grew out of the early radio shows to become a major international publication. After “The Beat” ceased publication in 2009, Smith contact prof. Jackie DjeDje and arranged the donation of her collection of CDs, LPs, cassettes, artist promotional materials, and other materials relating to her long-running radio shows. The collection includes nearly 5,000 recordings of reggae, ska, dub, and related Jamaican and Caribbean musics.

To be continued…

Archive Awarded GRAMMY Preservation Grant

ambittel — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:18:50 +0000

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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Jesús Guzmán wins Grammy

mrussell — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:22:43 +0000

Jesús Guzmán, the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology lecturer who directs the UCLA mariachi ensemble and is musical director of Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano, won the Grammy for BEST REGIONAL MEXICAN ALBUM for “Amor, Dolor Y Lágrimas: Música Ranchera,” Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano.

Congratulations to Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano. For anyone who would like to listen to the CD, please come to the Archive and ask for ARCD 6856.