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Outreach
The Archive engages in a wide array of outreach activities on a
number of different fronts. As a UCLA
in LA participant and awardee the Archive is working to
document, preserve, and provide access to LA musics. In 2003-04,
the Archive and Kayamanan Ng Lahi Philippine Folk Arts collaborated
on a the UCLA in LA funded "Archiving
Filipino-American Music in Los Angeles" (AFAMILA).
And for 2004-05, the Archive and the Heritage Music Foundation are
working together on the UCLA in LA funded "Gospel
Archiving in Los Angeles" (GALA).
By working with these and other local non-profits, the Archive has
entered a new phase of community-oriented outreach.
The Archive is also committed to repatriating copies of Archive
field recordings to the family and/or community members of the individuals
who are represented on the recordings. In the fall 2002 the Archive
repatriated a number of Cherokee field recordings from the Charlotte
Heth Collection (call number 75.2). With the consent of Dr.
Heth, the Archive made dubs of Stomp Dance recordings for the Museum
of the Cherokee Indian (MOCI). Many of the Stomp Dance songs
recorded by Dr. Heth in the 1970s have been forgotten. Cherokee
Indian David Winston, who is working with MOCI archivist Bo Taylor
in facilitating the repatriation, writes that the repatriated recordings
will "be put to good use at our Stomp Dance grounds."
In addition, the Archive recently repatriated both audio and video
recordings of the Cherokee singer Archie Sam to one of his former
students in Oklahoma. These recordings are used to teach Archie
Sam's forgotten songs to a new generation of Cherokee performers.
Internationally, the Archive is working with Professors Lorraine
Sakata and Margaret
Mills on the Central
Asian Archiving Project. This multi-year outreach project
aims to begin preserving and increasing access to Central Asian
folk heritage audiovisual collections. The first part of the project
included a survey of collections and culminated in a weeklong workshop
in Dushanbe where Central Asian archivists and collectors learned
about grant writing and digital preservation. John Vallier, Archivist
at the Ethnomusicology Archive, participated in the workshop and
spoke about the in and outs of digital preservation.
On a campus-wide level, the Archive hosts a radio
show, publishes a newsletter, installs
exhibits, hosts events, holds classes, provides reference services,
and--in many respects--serves as the central meeting place for the
Department of Ethnomusicology. The Archive also offers internships
to UCLA graduate students. These internships offer students opportunities
to experience working in a unique archival setting. At the same
time, these internships-like all of our outreach activities-- benefit
the Archive's mission to protect and provide access to our collections.
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