The EAR: Vol. 1, no. 1 (Fall 2000)

The EAR is an informal discussion of ethnomusicology archiving at UCLA and in the world. The EAR is issued four times a year, in the fall, winter, spring, and summer quarters. Contributions from readers are welcome and should be sent to the editor, Louise Spear, UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, 1630 Schoenberg Music Building, Box 951657, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1657; telephone 310-825-1695; fax 310-206-4738; email LSpear@arts.ucla.edu.

The Berlin Phonogramm-Archive was founded in September 1900 and soon became an important center of Comparative Musicology. To celebrate this important anniversary an international conference titled “100 Years Berlin Phonogramm-Archive: Retrospective, Perspective and Interdisciplinary Approaches of the Sound Archives of the World” was held from September 27--October 1, 2000, at the Enthnologisches Museum (formerly known as the Völkerkundemuseum) in Berlin, Germany. More than 60 papers were presented by archivists and ethnomusicologists from over 30 countries. UCLA was represented by Daniel Neuman, Anthony Seeger, and Louise Spear.

In September 1900 a Siamese theater group of musicians and dancers visited Berlin. Carl Stumpf, the psychologist at the University of Berlin, and Otto Abraham, a Berlin physician who published many works on music psychology, recorded the Siamese theater group with an Edison cylinder recorder. As a result of this scientific study, Stumpf published his oft-read “Tonsystem und Musik der Siamsen” [“Tone System and the Music of Siam”].

The Siamese cylinder recordings formed the foundation of the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv, begun by Carl Stumpf in 1900. In 1905 Erich Moritz von Hornbostel took over the Phonogramm-Archiv and made its development his life’s work until 1933. The Phonogramm-Archiv was headed by Marius Schneider from 1934-45; Kurt Reinhard from 1952-68; Dieter Christensen from 1968-72; and Artur Simon from 1972-present.

At one of the memorable conference events, the Phonogramm-Archiv’s Edison Cylinder No. 1, the Siamese orchestra recorded by Carl Stumpf in 1900, was played over the auditorium’s sound system for all to hear. The recording was followed by a live performance of the Das Prasit Thawon Ensemble, which can be traced back to the Siamese theater group recorded in 1900. Twelve musicians and ten dancers traveled from Thailand to help celebrate the Phonogramm-Archiv’s anniversary.

Other musicians came as well. Liang David Mingyue, who played at the Phonogramm-Archiv’s first concert in 1975, played music from China on the qin; Karaikudi S. Subramanian, who also performed at the Phonogramm-Archiv in 1975, played music from India on the vina; and Trân Quang Hai played music from Vietnam on the dàn tranh. Bosoma Sheriff from Borno, Nigeria, performed a song about recordings from the “Borno Music Documentation Project” being preserved at the Phonogramm-Archiv; and Famoudou Konaté played drum rhythms from Guinea. All of these musicians can be found on recordings published by the Phonogramm-Archiv.

World War II interrupted the activities of the Phonogramm-Archiv. Most of the cylinder recordings were packed up between December 1944 and January 1945, and during 1945 four-fifths of them were sent to East Germany and one-fifth to locations in West Germany. In 1950 approximately 9,000 cylinders were confiscated by the Russians and sent to Leningrad. That same year a significant number of 78-rpm disc recordings were smashed by Russian soldiers in the courtyard of the museum that housed the Phonogramm-Archiv.

During the 1950s the cylinders stored in West Germany were returned to the Phonogramm-Archiv. In 1959 most of the cylinders in Leningrad were returned to East Berlin, but not to the Phonogramm-Archiv, which was located in West Berlin. Erich Stockmann watched over the cylinders in East Berlin, and in the 1960s he assisted with the return of some cylinders until the East German government put a stop to it.

On May 31, 1990, a sealed room on Unter den Linden in East Berlin was opened in the presence of Erich Stockmann and Artur Simon, and the recordings were viewed and counted in preparation for their return to the Phonogramm-Archiv. Early the next year, 27,347 cylinders and 1,283 78-rpm discs, which had been gone since 1945, were returned to the Phonogramm-Archiv.

A project titled “The Saving of the Largest Collection of Old Sound Documents of Traditional Music from Around the World” was begun at the Phonogramm-Archiv in 1992 and continues today under the direction of Suzanne Ziegler, musicologist, and Albrecht Weidmann, sound engineer.

Beginning in 1907 the Phonogramm-Archiv made arrangements with the Presto company to galvanize its wax cylinders. During that process a copper negative, called a galvano, was made from the wax cylinder. In most cases the wax cylinder would be destroyed during the process, but from the galvano many copies could be made. Copies were kept at the Phonogramm-Archiv, given to collectors, and shared with other archives around the world.

As part of the project begun in 1992, a specially developed red wax is poured inside the galvanos to make new cylinder copies. Student employees melt chips of wax in a pot on a burner and then painstakingly pour the melted wax into the galvanos. It takes about one hour for the wax to harden enough so that the wax can be removed from the galvano. The red-wax cylinders are then copied onto DAT tape.

It is hoped that the DAT copies can be shared with the recorded culture groups and with archives around the world. Participants at the 100th anniversary conference were delighted to hear the old recordings and were, in some cases, able to provide helpful documentation.

The Ethnomusicology Archive welcomes Professor Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje as Director beginning October 1, 2000. Maureen Russell continues as Head of Cataloging and Archive Operations Manager, and Louise Spear continues as Archivist. Students for 2000-2001 include Chiung-Chi Chen, who is working in the CD-R recording lab, and Vasana de Mel, Alyssa Lightbourn, and John Vallier, who are working at the main desk assisting Archive users and doing a myriad of other tasks.

We all look forward to seeing many students, faculty, and visiting researchers this year. Let us know how we can help you!

Everyone is welcome to attend the Archive Video Hours scheduled for Fall Quarter. We begin with coffee and conversation at 4:30 p.m., followed by the video presentation and discussion from 5:00-6:00.

Thursday, October 26 - “Introducing Video to the Suyá Indians of Brazil: An Experiment in Self-Representation and Self-Determination” by Anthony Seeger, Department of Ethnomusicology

Thursday, November 9 - “‘Hey, that doesn’t sound Brazilian!’-Looking for Jazz in the Tropics: Música Instrumental Brasileira in Rio de Janeiro” by Andy Connell, Department of Ethnomusicology

Thursday, November 16 - “Folklore Music in Transylvania: Between Revival and Representation” by Colin Quigley, Department of World Arts and Cultures

Thursday, November 30 - “Bulgarian Folk Festivals 2000” by Tim Rice, Brian Fox, and Angela Rodel, Department of Ethnomusicology

Thursday, December 7 - “Sounds and Visions of Turkey; Between East and West Tradition and Modernity: Popular Music in Turkey in the Sounds of Urban Spaces” by Sonia Seeman, Department of Ethnomusicology

If you have fieldwork videos or related commercial videos that you would like to share with colleagues during the Winter or Spring Quarters, please contact Louise Spear at the Archive.

Stop by and see exhibits in the display case as well as department and archive news on the bulletin board.

October - LP and CD recordings from the Mediterranean are displayed in honor of the Performing Ecstasies: Music, Dance and Ritual in the Mediterranean conference and activities held at UCLA and throughout Los Angeles.

November - In celebration of the 100th anniversary, recordings, publications, photographs, and even cylinders from the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv are on view.

December - Featured are recordings of music associated with the many holidays surrounding Winter Solstice.

Here’s a special thanks to all those who participated in the I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER bulletin board display. We all enjoyed your photos!

Dr. Shubha Chaudhuri, Director of the Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE) of the American Institute of Indian Studies in New Delhi, visited the Ethnomusicology Archive and other facilities at UCLA during the week of October 16-20. The ARCE collection includes many field recordings of music from India, some of which are also deposited at UCLA.Shubha and the Archive staff discussed many issues relating to cataloging, preservation, dissemination, and new technologies.

A close relationship exists between the ARCE and UCLA for many reasons. Nazir Jairazbhoy, professor emeritus in the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology, served as chair of the American Institute of Indian Studies from its founding in 1982 through 1984. Succeeding chairs were Bonnie Wade, who, among her many ethnomusicology accomplishments, is an alumna of UCLA; Daniel Neuman, dean of the UCLA School of Arts & Architecture; and Tony Seeger, professor in the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology, who is the current chair. Each of these chairs has visited the ARCE many times.

The ARCE was established to 1) centralize and make available in India copies of research materials pertaining to Indian music collected by foreign scholars; 2) foster ethnomusicology research in India; 3) advise, assist, and coordinate activities of American and other foreign scholars carrying out research in Indian music; and 4) provide facilities to scholars for research, listening, and transcription of materials housed in the ARCE. Many UCLA students have received assistance from the ARCE, including Meilu Ho, Scott Marcus, Peter Manuel, and Gordon Thompson.

Shubha is also chief coordinator of the Archives Resource Community (ARC), a network of thirteen audio-visual archives from throughout India, whose members meet twice a year to share resources and expertise in archiving of expressive culture. The ARC also holds workshops aimed at staff development.

In December 1999, Shubha and Tony Seeger served as co-organizers of a workshop funded by the Ford Foundation and titled “Preservation for the Millenium: An International Collaboration.” Fifteen archivists from five continents met in New Delhi and spent more than a week in intense collaboration. Currently Shubha and Tony are preparing a book based on the papers and group discussions from the workshop.

For more information about the ARCE and ARC, see www.archive-india.org. This web site has an Archives Resource Community section, which includes a members list, events calendar, news, photographs, and audio clips, and an “Audio-Visual Archiving” section, which includes articles and information on technology, preservation, copyright, and much more.

Dr. Mikyung Park, Professor at Keimyung University in Korea, visited the Ethnomusicology Archive on November 14-15. Mikyung was a student at UCLA in the late 1970s and early 1980s and was also a research assistant in the Archive, where she worked with Korean materials in the Archive’s East Asian Collection. Her dissertation, Music and Shamanism in Korea: A Study of Selected Ssikkum-gut Rituals for the Dead, was completed in 1985.

Mikyung brought the Archive a recently produced compact disc of the music examples discussed in her dissertation. Five different shamans were recorded on Chindo Island, off the southern tip of Korea, in 1981-82. The 24 examples on the CD can be found in Appendix C of the dissertation, where the texts are transliterated and translated into English, and the music is transcribed in Western notation. The dissertation is available in both the Music Library and the Ethnomusicology Archive.

During October and November, Dr. Robert L. Simon, a UCLA alumnus who has retired after many years of teaching ethnomusicology at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, deposited 133 open-reel tapes that he recorded in India in 1971-72 and 1978.

The 1971-72 tapes were recorded as part of his dissertation research on Hindu religious music, especially that of the Smarta Brahmins in South India. There are recordings of V. Raghavan, B. Krishnamurthy, and T.S. Vasudevan. Robert’s dissertation, Bhakti Ritual Music in South India: A Study of the Bhajana in Its Cultural Matrix, was completed in 1975. It is currently available on microfilm in the Music Library and will soon be available in print copy in the Archive.

The 1978 tapes were recorded in Maharashtra. The focus of this work was the deity Vithoba, also called Vithala, in the temple in Pandharpur and his followers, the Valkaris. There are many recordings of Sri Manohar Narayan Sabnis, the spiritual leader of a large following of devotees in India and the U.S.

Published on the occasion of its 100th birthday, The Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv 1900-2000; Collections of Traditional Music of the World (Berlin: VWB-Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 2000) outlines the history and collections of this famous archive but also serves as a useful resource for the intellectual history and development of the study of ethnomusicology. The book is edited by Artur Simon, Head of the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv from 1972 to present, and includes two sections -

1. History of the Phonogramm-Archiv (with articles by Erich M. von Hornbostel, Artur Simon, Carl Stumpf, Curt Sachs, Jaap Kunst, Marius Schneider, Kurt Reinhard, and Dieter Christensen)

2. Collections, Research Reports and Projects (with articles by Andreas Meyer, Kurt Reinhard, Artur Simon, Raimund Vogels, Ulrich Wegner, Susanne Ziegler, Albrecht Wiedmann, and Gerd Stanke & Thomas Kessler)

Also interesting is an extensive Appendix with a contract between the Phonogramm-Archiv and a cylinder company dated 1907, other early memoranda and letters, and valuable lists of the archive’s cylinders, tapes, cassettes, CDs, videos, and publications. The color plates and many black-and-white photographs are also worth a look. You can find this book on the reference shelf in the Ethnomusicology Archive.

For many decades the Berlin Phonogramm-Archive has published commercial LPs and CDs based on the field recordings in its collections. Beginning in 1969 with LPs titled Sudindische Tempelinstrument and Klassische Türkische Musik and continuing to this year with a set of CDs titled Music! 1900-2000: 100 Recordings-100 Years of the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv, the Phonogramm-Archiv has produced a variety of recordings well known for their extensive documentation and beautiful photographs.

We invite you to look through the list of recordings on the following pages and listen to as many of them as you can. If you see a recording from an area of the world in which you are especially interested or knowledgeable, or from an area of the world which is new to you, write a paragraph about the recording for the next issue of The EAR and share what you find-be it inspirational, educational, confusing, or quirky-with your friends and fellow readers.

Music! 1900-2000: 100 Recordings--100 Years of the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv is the title of a set of four compact discs published by WERGO (©2000) in honor of the Phonogramm-Archiv’s 100th Anniversary. The set was edited by Artur Simon and Ulrich Wegner and includes a 284-page booklet with numerous black-and-white photographs, music transcriptions, and an extensive bibliography. The editors’ introduction describes what is found on the CDs -

These four compact discs will give you a taste of the musical variety of the 150,000 items in the archive’s collection. You will hear recordings that researchers-among them musicologists, ethnologists, and linguists-as well as travelers made with Edison phonographs, audio tape recorders, and DAT recorders. Furthermore, you will hear excerpts from concerts that the archive has organized in Berlin, featuring outstanding musicians from Asia and Africa. (See booklet, p. 4.)

Also included is an article by Artur Simon titled, “Recording Media: Methodological Implications for Ethnomusicology.” (See booklet, p. 7-11.)

The CDs are organized by recording technology and time periods as follows:

CD 1: Wax Cylinders Recordings 1893-1954
            Asia - 10 selections
            Australia / Oceania - 7 selections
            Africa - 12 selections
            Americas - 6 selections
            Europe - 7 selections

CD 2: Tape Recordings, Monophonic 1951-1974
            Asia - 7 selections
            Oceania - 3 selections
            Africa - 10 selections
            South America - 2 selections
            Europe - 5 selections

CD 3: Tape Recordings, Stereophonic (Field) 1967-2000
            Asia - 7 selections
            Oceania - 2 selections
            Africa - 4 selections
            Americas - 2 selections
            Europe - 3 selections

CD 4: Tape Recordings, Stereophonic (Concert) 1973-2000
            Asia - 6 selections
            Africa - 6 selections

Notes for each selection were written by collectors who are still alive or by current scholars. In other cases, field notes or early publications by the original collectors were used to describe the recordings. UCLA professors Amy Catlin and Nazir Jairazbhoy wrote the notes for “Krishna song, voice and flute imitation by Rehana Tyabji, recorded by Arnold Bake in Baroda, India, on January 31, 1933.” (See CD 1, track 4, and booklet, p. 24-27.)

Commercial Recordings from the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv
With Ethnomusicology Archive Call Numbers

ARLP 1400	Klangdokumente zur Musikwissenschaft KM 0001 Sudindische Tempelinstrument (1969) Recorded by Josef Kuckertz; edited by Dieter Christensen 1 LP - Notes (12 p.) in German with English summary
ARLP 1401	Klangdokumente zur Musikwissenschaft KM 0002 Klassische Türkische Musik (1969) Recorded by Kurt Reinhard; edited by Dieter Christensen 1 LP - Notes (12 p.) in German with English summary
ARLP 3992	Museum Collection Berlin MC 1 Musik aus der Türkei / Music from Turkey (1985) Recorded by Kurt Reinhard; edited by Artur Simon 2 LPs - Notes (32 p.) in German and English
ARLP 5173	Museum Collection Berlin MC 2 Nase Pjesme; Musik aus Gabela, Herzegowina, Jugoslawien / Nase Pjesme; Music from Gabela, Hercegovina, Yugoslavia (1990) Recorded by Dieter Christensen; edited by Artur Simon 1 LP - Notes (on container) in German and English
ARLP 3379	Museum Collection Berlin MC 3 Orient/Okzident; Music aus Südost-Europa Orient/Occident; Music from Southeastern Europe (1983) Recorded by Wolf Dietrich; edited by Artur Simon 2 LPs - Notes (32 p.) in German and English
ARLP 4237	Museum Collection Berlin MC 4 Gesänge und Xylophonmusik der Senufo; Elfenbeinküste Chants et musique de xylophones des Sénufo; Côte Ivoire (1987) Recorded by Till Förster; edited by Artur Simon 2 LPs - Notes (34 p.) in German and French
ARLP 3380	Museum Collection Berlin MC 5 Musik der Pontos-Griechen; Nordgriechenland Music of the Pontic Greeks; Northern Greece (1980) Recorded by Christian Ahrens; edited by Artur Simon 1 LP - Notes (12 p.) in German, English, and French check
ARLP 3387	Museum Collection Berlin MC 6 Musik der Hamar; Südäthiopien / Music of the Hamar; Southern Ethiopia (1979) Recorded by Ivo Strecker; edited by Artur Simon 2 LPs - Notes (14 p.) in German and English
ARLP 2211	Museum Collection Berlin MC 7 Musik für Ch’in; China / Music for Ch’in; China (1982) Recorded by Liang Ming-Yüeh; edited by Artur Simon 1 LP - Notes (24 p.) in German and English
ARLP 3381	Museum Collection Berlin MC 8 Musik für Vina; Südindien / Music for Vina; South India (1980) Recorded by Pia Srinivasan; edited by Artur Simon 2 LPs - Notes (16 p.) in German and English
ARLP 2835	Museum Collection Berlin MC 9 Musik der Nubier; Nordsudan / Music of the Nubians; Northern Sudan (1981) Recorded and edited by Artur Simon 2 LPs - Notes (18 p.) in German and English
ARLP 3382	Museum Collection Berlin MC 10 Dikr und Madih; Gesänge und Zeremonien; Islamisches Brauchtum im Sudan / Dikr und Madih; Songs and Ceremonies; Islamic Customs in the Sudan (1981) Recorded and edited by Artur Simon 2 LPs - Notes (9 p.) in German and English
ARLP 3383	Museum Collection Berlin MC 11 Mukanda na Makisi; Beschneidungsschule und Masken; Angola Mukanda na Makisi; Circumcision School and Masks; Angola (1982) Recorded by Gerhard Kubik; edited by Artur Simon 2 LPs - Notes (20 p.) in German and English
ARLP 3611	Museum Collection Berlin MC 12 Gondang Toba; Nordsumatra; Indonesien; Instrumentalmusik der Toba-Batak / Gondang Toba; Northern Sumatra; Indonesia; Instrumental Music of the Toba-Batak (1984) Recorded and edited by Artur Simon 2 LPs - Notes (31 p.) in German and English
ARLP 4164	Museum Collection Berlin MC 13 Gendang Karo; Nordsumatra, Indonesien; Trance- und Tanzmusik der Karo-Batak Gendang Karo; Northern Sumatra, Indonesia; Trance and Dance Music of the Karo Batak (1987) Recorded and edited by Artur Simon 2 LPs - Notes (31 p.) in German and English
ARLP 3384	Museum Collection Berlin MC 14 Musik im Andenhochland; Bolivia / Music in the Andean Highlands; Bolivia (1985) Recorded by Max Peter Baumann; edited by Artur Simon 2 LPs - Notes (19 p.) in German and English
ARLP 5184-5185	Museum Collection Berlin MC 15 Musiker aus Malawi; Südliches Malawi;“Opeka nyimbo” Musiker-Komponisten / Musicians from Malawi; Southern Malawi; “Opeka nyimbo” Musician-Composers (1989) Recorded by Gerhard Kubik with assistance from Moya Aliya Malamusi; edited by Artur Simon 2 LPs - Notes (47 p.) in German and English
ARCD 230	Museum Collection Berlin CD 16 Capoeira, Samba, Candomblé; Afro-Brazilian Music in Bahia (1990) Recorded by Tiago de Oliveira Pinto; edited by Artur Simon 1 CD - Notes (23 p.) in English
ARCD 440	Museum Collection Berlin CD 17 Dhrupadas aus Darbhanga; Indien; Die Musikerfamilie Mallik / Dhrupadas from Darbhanga; India; The Mallik Family of Musicians (1995) Recorded by Peter Pannke; edited by Artur Simon 2 CDs - Notes (p.) in German and English
ARCD 92	Museum Collection Berlin CD 18 Trommelrhythmen der Malinke-Hamana; Guinea; Meistertrommler Famoudou Konaté mit Ensemble / Rythmes de tambour des Malinkés-Hamana; Guinée; Maitre tambour Famoudou Konaté et son ensemble (1991) Recorded by Paul B. Engel and J. Beer; edited by Artur Simon 1 CD - Notes (p.) in German and French
ARCD 231	Museum Collection Berlin CD 19 Songs of the Iglulik Inuit; Canada / Chants des Inuit Iglulik; Canada (1993) Recorded by Jean-Jacques Nattiez; edited by Artur Simon 1 CD - Notes (p.) in English and French
ARCD 232	Museum Collection Berlin CD 20 Musik aus dem Bergland West-Neuguineas; Irian Jaya / Music from the Mountainous Region of Western New Guinea; Irian Jaya (1993) Recorded by Artur Simon and E. Royl; edited by Artur Simon 6 CDs - Notes (p.) in German and English
ARCD 475	Museum Collection Berlin CD 21 Mwenda Jean Bosco; Shaba, Zaïre; Gesang und Guitar / Mwenda Jean Bosco; Shaba, Zaïre; Songs and Guitar (1997) Recorded by Phonogramm-Archiv and Gerhard Kubik 1 CD - Notes (p.) in German and English
ARCD 612-613	Museum Collection Berlin CD 22/23 Musik der Nubier; Nordsudan / Music of the Nubians; Northern Sudan (1998) Recorded and edited by Artur Simon 2 CDs - Notes (152 p.) in German and English
ARCD 614-615	Museum Collection Berlin CD 24/25 Instrumentalmusik der Toba- und Karo-Batak; Nordsumatra, Indonesia / Instrumental Music of the Toba Batak and the Karo Batak; Northern Sumatra, Indonesia (1999) Recorded and edited by Artur Simon 2 CDs - Notes (184 p.) in German and English

When Steve Fry retires after 25 years at UCLA, the Music Library will miss a friend and colleague…but also the Ethnomusicology Archive will miss a great supporter. Ethnomusicology students and faculty have always appreciated Steve’s friendly smile and indefatigable enthusiasm for our projects, but we may not be aware of how much he has contributed behind the scenes to ethnomusicology collection development, archival collections, reference services, classroom instruction, and library and archive tours.

We have enjoyed the many exhibits Steve has mounted in the Schoenberg lobby with titles such as “Those Wonderful Olde Musik Machines,” “The American Songwriters,” “Duke Ellington,” and “African Mbira Players-Photographs by James Arkatov.” We have learned from the numerous articles Steve has contributed to journals and encyclopedias, including some surprising ones like “Philately, Musical” in the The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, “The Music for the Pink Panther: A Study in Lyrical Timelessness” in The Cue Sheet, and “Nicolas Slonimsky: The Tyrannosaurus Rex of Lex(icography)” in the Sonneck Society Bulletin. We especially appreciated the “Ethnews from the Music Library” column which Steve regularly wrote for EthnoMuse edited by Amy Wooley. In all, Steve has written and edited three monographs, 85 articles, and 115 book reviews.

Steve has been an active member of the Music Library Association, serving on the Board twice and working on many committees. For the annual conference held at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles in 1998 Steve organized the first ever MLA Big Band, which included music librarians from all over the country, UCLA Music Library staff Gordon Theil on trombone and Tim Edwards on guitar, and local ringers Steve Loza on trumpet and Kenny Burrell on guitar. The Big Band was the hit of the conference. Steve also formed a committee to visit wineries and select California wines that would be bottled and labeled “MLA 68th Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA.” It was the most popular committee in the history of the local MLA chapter.

Steve has also been a central figure in the Film Music Society, formerly known as the Society for the Preservation of Film Music, serving as secretary for 10 years, on the Advisory Board for 10 years, and on the Board of Trustees for 10 years. On October 6 of this year, at a black-tie affair at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, famed film music composer Elmer Bernstein presented Steve with a Career Achievement Preservation Award for his work in preserving film music materials at UCLA for 25 years.

Steve is an avid musician, directing and playing bass and piano in the Westside Jazz Ensemble, a 17-piece big band from Culver City; playing piano in the Dan Walker Swing Machine, another local big band; directing and playing piano in Razzmatazz, a jazz trio; and playing piano in The Leadmen, a jazz quartet. He also performs solo and in groups all over the city and the country.

When Steve retires he says he plans to “write a couple of books, play a lot of music, and travel to exotic places like Bakersfield and Barstow.” He has a family ranch in Boise Valley, Idaho, where he “hopes to raise emus, llamas, and miniature yaks.”

Steve sums up his philosophy of life by saying, “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I took them.”

As a parting gift to ethnomusicology students and faculty, Steve has written an article for this issue of The EAR. “Some Interesting Ethnomusicology Resources on the UCLA Campus” can be found on the last two pages.

If you would like to wish Steve well in his new ventures, stop by his gala retirement party in the Green Room (1250 Schoenberg Music Building) on Monday afternoon, November 20.

Some Interesting Ethnomusicology Resources On the UCLA Campus

Stephen M. Fry
UCLA Music Library

Students in the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology are often excited to discover music and cultural resources outside the well-known UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive and Music Library. These “hidden treasures” are revealed in the Music Library’s information instruction classes presented at the beginning of the fall quarter to selected classes in the Music, Ethnomusicology, Musicology, and World Arts and Cultures departments. Students are impressed by these resources and are eager to incorporate them in their academic projects. Here is an outline of some of the most important ones.

The Fowler Museum of Cultural History has grown from a small collection of cultural materials gathered by faculty and housed in a large classroom in the basement of Haines Hall more than two decades ago to one of the centerpieces of the entire campus. With its own building, it has developed into the largest and most renowned such museum in the country. Within its own collections are musical artifacts and instruments representing cultures from around the world, most prominently those of Native American and African nations. The museum “draws upon disciplines of art history, anthropology, folklore, archaeology, and ethnomusicology.” The “interpretive materials feature the words and ideas of peoples being represented.” Recent exhibits in the Museum have included “Festival Organ: The King of Instruments,” “Pulling Out the Stops: A Photographic Survey of Organs in Los Angeles,” “Music in the Life of Africa,” and “Corridos sin fronteras: The Art of a Ballad Tradition in Mexico and the U.S.”

Three other valuable aspects of the Fowler Museum are the virtual tours offered on its web site (www.fmch.ucla.edu), the Museum Store (telephone 206-7004) where many kinds of cultural materials including musical instruments and art are available for sale, and the Museum’s Kitnik-Alexander Library (telephone 825-6102) which has books on museum science and cultures of the world.

Folklore collections, currently located on the ground floor of the Public Policy Building, were established by two long-time UCLA folklorists, now both deceased. Wayland D. Hand’s vision initiated the program and stimulated its early growth. The Wayland D. Hand Library is a hefty repository of published folklore and mythology resources including, of course, many relating to folk music. The library began as Hand’s private collection and was subsequently donated to the University. It was D.K. Wilgus, whose research area was American folksong, who was responsible for collecting and nurturing an expansive folksong collection. Today the D.K. Wilgus Archive of Folksong and Music is a splendid collection of approximately 8,000 commercially recorded albums of traditional music, songs, and narrative as well as 1,000 field-recorded tapes. Among these are tapes from workshops sponsored by Folklore and held in Topanga in the 1970s-the Fiddle Styles Workshop led by Michael Mendelson, the Cowboy and Western Music Workshop led by Sam Hinton, and the Bawdy Songs Workshop led by Ed Cray and Charles Seeman. Digitally reproduced sound files from these workshops can be found on the folklore web site listed below.

Additional collections, housed as part of the folklore library and archive include the following:

Ethnic & Regional Folklore Archive houses a broad collection of books, recordings, visual media, and original field research reports concentrating on several diverse fields.

Harry Middleton Hyatt African American Folklore, which came to the archive in 1986, contains more than 5,000 transcribed research interviews and rare audio field recordings from the 1930s.

Traditional Arts and Oral History of Chicanos in Greater Los Angeles Collection is the result of a grant-sponsored project in which several scholars gathered data (including taped interviews) on a variety of Chicano cultural traditions. The collection includes audio recordings along with slides, photographs, film, videotapes, and essays.

Henry Winnifred Splitter Collection of Western American Cultural History and Folklore, covering the period 1846-1900, is the only collection of its kind in the U.S. The collection consists of an estimated tens of thousands of handwritten extracts from early western newspapers and contemporary popular magazines and journals. It is a rich resource for the study of 19th Century American folklore.

Parler Arkansas Collection, created by Professor Mary Celestia Parler of the University of Arkansas, is one of the most comprehensive repositories of regional folklore in the United States. Focusing entirely on folk beliefs recorded in the state of Arkansas, the collection consists of 4,996 typed manuscript pages in nine bound volumes documenting a wide range of cultural traditions and beliefs, including many musical allusions.

Dance and Performance Archive includes the celebrated Hinman Collection, a vast assortment of original black and white photographs taken during the early part of the 1900s documenting world folk dance and choreographed dance traditions.

California and Western Folklore Archive gathers student papers and multimedia projects, mostly from Professor Peter Tokofsky’s undergraduate students in Folklore 15, which explore California’s multicultural milieu. Some of these projects include stories of “Concrete Rockers” (Los Angeles breakdancers) and “Suburban Art” (grafitti from the hiphop culture).

For assistance with these folklore collections, contact Patrick Polk at telephone 825-8187 or email ppolk@humnet.ucla.edu. See also the web site www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/folklore/archives

Music Library Special Collections (B425 Schoenberg Music Building) has a few surprising ethnomusicological and music culture genres. Perhaps the most important are the songs and covers of more than a half million pieces of sheet music, covering late 18th Century parlor songs to today’s rock and rap tunes. These are part of the Archive of Popular American Music. Most American ethnic cultures are represented in these sheets, and they are important primary documents of how these cultures appeared and were perceived throughout American life. Another interesting resource, housed in the Archive of Film and Television Music, are the film and television cues, which were composed to represent various cultures in these visual media. Myriad world cultures are represented from Henry Mancini’s music for the motion picture Hatari! to Colin McPhee’s music for documentary films on Bali. For information contact Tim Edwards, Head of Operations, at telephone 825-1665 or email tae@library.ucla.edu See also the web site www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/music/mlsc/index.htm

Instructional Media Library (160 Powell) holds many commercial videos exploring the music of diverse cultures. These include videos produced by the United Nations, university projects based on field films, and UCLA produced videos issued by the UCLA Office of Instructional Development. Call 825-0755 or check web site www.oid.ucla.edu/lmlib/index.html

Film & Television Archive Research and Study Center (46 Powell) provides access to music and culture as documented in motion pictures, documentaries, newsreels, cartoons, American television programs, and news and public affairs programs. Contact James Friedman, Manager, at telephone 206-5388 or email jimf@ucla.edu. The web site is www.cinema.ucla.edu/research.html

ARCD 616	Besondere CD Klangfarben der Kulturen; Musik aus 17 Ländern der Erde / The Timbre of Cultures; Music from 17 Countries Around the World (1998) Selected and edited by Andreas Meyer 1 CD - Notes (90 p.) in German and English
ARCD 617-620	Wergo SM 1701 2 Music! 1900-2000: 100 Recordings; 100 Years of the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv (2000) Edited by Artur Simon and Ulrich Wegner 4 CDs - Notes (284 p.) in German and English


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