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Archive History
The Archive was formally established in 1961 as a research unit
of the Institute of Ethnomusicology. When the Institute was disestablished
in 1974, the Archive became part of the Department of Music. In
1988 the Archive became part of the newly formed Department of Ethnomusicology
and Systematic Musicology, which was renamed the Department
of Ethnomusicology in 1996.
In 1961, Professor Mantle Hood, Director of the Institute of Ethnomusicology,
asked Archivist Ann Briegleb Schuursma to establish the Ethnomusicology
Archive. Schuursma served as the Archivist from 1961 until her retirement
in 1984. Norah Yeh was Acting Archivist in 1984-1985. Louise Spear,
who arrived in 1985, held the position of Director (1985-1997) and
Archivist (1985-2003) before she permanently retired in 2003. Maureen
Russell--Head of Cataloging and Archive Operations Manager--came
to the Archive in 1989. From 2002-2004, John Vallier served as Acting
Archivist; his position as permanent Archivist began in July 2004 and ended in July 2006.
From September 2006 to December 2007, Phoebe Nelson served as Acting Archivist. In January 2008, Aaron Bittel was hired as permanent Archivist. Timothy Rice served as Director from 1997-1999, and Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje was Director from 2000-2007. Since 2007, Anthony Seeger has been the Archive Director.
Since its inception, the Archive has actively acquired, processed,
preserved, and provided access to thousands of hours of commercial
and non-commercial recordings while offering a wide range of reference,
outreach, and educational service to diverse user groups.
History of Grants Awarded to the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive
· 1983 - Computer-Aided Archive Access: A Pilot Study Using
the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive. National Endowment for the Humanities;
Increasing bibliographic access of the Archive's holdings with full
MARC cataloging.
· 1998 - Preserving and Accessing World Music at the UCLA
Ethnomusicology Archive. National Endowment for the Humanities;
Preserving and making more accessible nearly 1,000 field recordings.
· 2003 - First
Nations Audio Preservation Project (FNAPP). National Academy
of Recording Arts & Sciences; Preserving and making more accessible
nearly 225 Native American field recordings.
· 2003 - Developing
Multimedia Resources for the 20 Series. UCLA Office of Instructional
Development; Increasing access to selected Archive holdings for
the Department of Ethnomusicology's world music survey classes.
· 2003 - Archiving Filipino-American
Music in LA (AFAMILA). UCLA Center for Community Partnerships;
Outreach and documentation project with Kayamanan Ng Lahi to develop
a collection of LA-based Philippine music.
· 2004 - Gospel Archiving in LA (GALA).
UCLA Center for Community Partnerships; Outreach and documentation
project with Heritage Music Foundation to develop a collection of
LA-based Gospel music.
· 2004 - Ethnomusicological AV Recording & Retrieval
System (EARRS). UCLA Office of Instructional Development; Digitizing
and increasing access to faculty AV field recordings for undergrad instruction.
· 2006 - Wilgus Access & Preservation Project (WAPP).
GRAMMY Foundation; Digitizing and increasing access to 1,000 field recordings originally held by the UCLA Archives of Folklore and Mythology, which was founded by the late folklorist D.K. Wilgus in 1965 and disbanded in 2002.
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