Course Schedule
Week I (January 8) - Introduction to Archives and Archiving: Overview of
the class, introductions, Hollywood Vaults video, and tour UCLA
Ethnomusicology Archive.
Week 2 (January 15) - Archives and a History of Audiovisual Recording.
Guest speaker: Nicholas Bergh (sound engineer and ethnomusicologist).
Readings:
**Simon, Artur. 2000. “The Musical Traditions of Mankind in the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv 1900-2000: Collecting, Preserving, Researching, and Communicating.” In The Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv 1900-2000: Collections of Traditional Music of the World, edited by Artur Simon. Berlin:VWB-Verlag fur Wissenschaft und Bildung. Pages 47-64: in reader.**Seeger, Anthony. 1986. “The Role of Sound Archives Today.” In Ethnomusicology 30(2). Pages 261-276: in reader.
** Clark, Chris. 2006. Collective Intelligence or Intelligent Collecting: Alternative Survival Strategies for Audiovisual Archives in the Information Age.” IASA Journal no 28 (December 2006): 6-13.
Various Authors. 2004. “Archives and the Future.” In Archives for the Future: Global Perspectives on Audiovisual Archives in the 21st Century: 2-13 http://www.seagullindia.com/archive/download.html
Schüller, Dietrich. 2004. “Technology for the Future.” In Archives for the Future: Global Perspectives on Audiovisual Archives in the 21st Century, edited by Anthony Seeger and Shubha Chaudhuri. Gurgaon, Haryana, India: Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, American Institute of Indian Studies; Calcutta: Seagull Books: 14-20.
http://www.seagullindia.com/archive/download.htmlSewald, Ronda L. 2005 "Sound Recordings and Ethnomusicology: Theoretical Barriers to the Use of Archival Collections.” Resound: A Quarterly of the Archives of Traditional Music 24/1-2 (January/April): and volume 24 3-4. In reader.
Recommended Additional Reading and Resources:
*International Association of Sounds and Audiovisual Archives.
2006. "About IASA: Organisation." http://www.iasa-web.org/pages/Default.htm
*Library of Congress. 2006. “What is an Ethnographic Field
Collection?” http://www.loc.gov/folklife/ethno.html
*Society of American Archivists. 2006. "History and Brief
Description."http://www.archivists.org/history.asp
Week 3 (January 22th – Martin Luther King Day Holiday, class will have to be rescheduled) - History, Types, and Status of Audiovisual Archives.
Readings:
**Edmonson, Ray. “Reflections on the New UNESCO Publication, A Philosophy
of Audiovisual Archiving.”
http://www.geocities.com/seapavaa/whatsnew/profesion.htmKoch, Grace. 2004. “Challenges to a Small Ethnographic Archives.” In
Archives for the Future: Global Perspectives on Audiovisual Archives in
the 21st Century: 170-182. http://www.seagullindia.com/archive/download.htmlLayne, Valmont. 2004. “The Sound Archives at the District Six Museum: A Work in Progress.” In Archives for the Future: Global Perspectives on Audiovisual Archives in the 21st Century: 183-195. http://www.seagullindia.com/archive/download.html
**Vallier, John. December 2005. “Balancing User Perspectives With Archival Reality.” Journal for the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives. Number 26: 17-22 (in reader).
Ward, Alan. 1990. Chapter 1: What are Sound Archives? In A Manual of Sound Archive Administration. Hants, England: Gower Press: 1-13 (in reader).
Niles, Don. "Reclaiming the Past: The Value of Recordings to a National Cultural Heritage." In Archives for the Future: Global Perspectives on Audiovisual Archives in the 21st Century: 196-206. http://www.seagullindia.com/archive/download.html
Recommended Reading and Resources:
*Archives Resource Community: http://www.archive-india.org/
Birth of TV: http://www.birth-of-tv.org/birth/
*Muller, Carol A. 2002. “Archiving Africanness in Sacred Song.” In
Ethnomusicology 46(3): pp. 409-431 (in course reader).
*Explore the UNESCO Archives Portal:
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_archives/Week 4 (January 29th) - Ethics, Copyright, and Contracts
Readings:
**Frith, Simon and Lee Marshall. 2004. “Making Sense of Copyright.” In Music and Copyright, 2d ed, edited by Simon Frith and Lee Marshall. New York: Routledge: 1-18 (in reader).**Various Authors. 2004. “Appendix C: Debates Between Performers, Researchers and Archivists.” In Archives for the Future: Global Perspectives on Audiovisual Archives in the 21st Century: 267-279. http://www.seagullindia.com/archive/download.html
**Seeger, Anthony. 2001. "Intellectual Property and Audiovisual Archives and Collections.” In Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis. Washington DC: Council on Library and Information Resources: http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub96/contents.html
OR (read one of these two)
Seeger, Anthony. 2004. Traditional Music Ownership in a Commodified World. In Music and Copyright, 2d ed, edited by Simon Frith and Lee Marshall. New York: Routledge: 157-170 (in reader).
Harper, Georgia K. 2003. “Copyright Law and audio Preservation.” Proceedings of the Sound Savings: Preserving Audio Collections Symposium, July 2003, University of Texas, Austin. http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/links/cached/preserving/8_35d_harper.htm
Society of American Archivists. 2004. Statement on the Renewal of the USA PATRIOT Act. http://www.archivists.org/statements/patriotact.asp
Various Authors. “Rights, Intellectual Property, and Archives Today.” In Archives for the Future: Global Perspectives on Audiovisual Archives in
the 21st Century: 71-115. http://www.seagullindia.com/archive/download.htmlRecommended Reading and Resources:
*Music Library Association Guide to Copyright: http://www.lib.jmu.edu/org/mla/
* Recording Industry of America on Copyright: http://www.riaa.com/physicalpiracy.php?content_selector=piracy_online_the_law
*Seeger, Anthony. 1992. “Ethnomusicology and Music Law.” In Ethnomusicology,
Vol. 36, No. 3,
*Special Issue: Music and the Public Interest: pp. 345-359 (on campus or proxy access only)
*Seeger, Anthony. 2001. "Intellectual Property and Audiovisual
Archives and Collections.” In Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis.
Washington DC: Council on Library and Information Resources:
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub96/contents.html
* Society of American Archivists Code of Ethics:
http://www.archivists.org/governance/handbook/app_ethics.asp#code
* Society of Ethnomusicology Ethical Considerations:
http://webdb.iu.edu/sem/scripts/aboutus/aboutethnomusicology/ethical_considerations.cfm
* UC Copyright Education: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/copyright/
* UNESCO Intangible Heritage:
http://www.unesco.org/culture/heritage/intangible/html_eng/index_en.shtml
* UCLA Library Symposium. Managing Intellectual Property: What
Faculty Need to Know to Publish and Teach in the Digital Age:
http://www2.library.ucla.edu/symposium/
* UCLA Office of Intellectual Property: http://www.research.ucla.edu/oipa/Week 5 (February 5) - Fieldwork, Annotating for Deposit, and Grants.
Readings:
**Fargion, Janet Topp, ed. 2001. A Manual for Documentation, Fieldwork,
and Preservation for Ethnomusicologists (2nd edition). Bloomington:
Society for Ethnomusicology: 1 -10 (in reader).**Jackson, Bruce. 1987. Fieldwork. Urbana: University of Illinois Press:
244-256 (in reader)**Ruskin, Jesse. “Collecting and Connecting: Archiving Filipino American Music in Los Angeles.” In The Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology, Volume #11 (Winter 2006).
http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/PRE/Vol11/Vol11html/Vol11.htmlBartis, Peter. 2002. Folklife and Fieldwork. Washington D.C.: Library of
Congress. http://www.loc.gov/folklife/fieldwork/Grammy Foundation Grants: http://www.grammy.com/GRAMMY_Foundation/Grants/
Recommended Reading and Resources:* Creative Archive: http://creativearchive.bbc.co.uk/
* Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/
* UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive. “Documentation Forms”
http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/Archive/forms.htmWeek 6 (February 12th) “Appraisal, Selection, Cataloging, and Retrieval.”
Guest speakers: Maureen Russell (UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive) and TBA.
Readings:
**Clark, Chris. 2004. “How Flexible is your Catalogue? Developing a Large Database of sound recordings at the British Library.” In the Journal for the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives. Number 24: 6-13 (in reader).**Harrison, Helen. “Section IV: Selection and Appraisal.” In Audiovisual Archives: A Practical Reader, edited by Harrison, Helen. UNESCO document C11-97/WS/4:
Schuursma, Rolf. 1984. “Problems in Selection in Research Sound Archives.” In Selection in Sound Archives, edited by Helen P. Harrison. Milton Keynes, England: International Association of Sound Archives:1-12 (in reader).
Witzleben, J. Lawrence and Tsui Ying-Fai. 2004. “Archiving Chinese Music Materials at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.” In Archives for the Future: Global Perspectives on Audiovisual Archives in the 21st Century: 238-244. http://www.seagullindia.com/archive/download.html
Recommended Readings and Resources:
* Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/).
* Ethnographic Thesaurus (http://www.afsnet.org/thesaurus/).
* Greene, Mark and Dennis Meissner. 2005. "More Product, Less Process: Revamping
Traditional Archival Processing?
http://ahc.uwyo.edu/documents/faculty/greene/papers/Greene-Meissner.pdf
* IASA Cataloging Rules (http://www.iasa-web.org/icat/icat001.htm).
* Library of Congress. “Encoded Archival Description” (http://www.loc.gov/ead/)
* Library of Congress. “MARC Bibliographic: Machine-Readable Cataloging”
(http://www.loc.gov/marc/umb/).
* Irving S. Gilmore Music Library. “Music Cataloging at Yale.”
Available at http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/musicat.htm
* UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive. “Links to Appraisers Organizations”
(http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/archive/appraisers.htm).
* UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive. 2003. “Research Links.”
http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/Archive/links.htm).
* UCLA Film and Television Archive. “Cataloging Procedure Manual.”
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/CPM%20Voyager/CPMV00TofC.html
* Yee, Martha. "FRBRization: a Method for Turning Online Public
Finding Lists into Online Public Catalogs." http://repositories.cdlib.org/postprints/715/
Week 7 Feb. 19th - class cancelled, readings and reading journals still due
February 19th. Security, Storage, Conservation, and Disaster Preparedness. President’s Day Holiday. We will have to reschedule this class meeting.
Readings:
**Brown, Karen. 1999 (rev. 2003). “Collections Security: Planning and Prevention for Libraries and Archives.” In Technical Leaflet: Emergency Management. Section 3, Leaflet 12. Northeast Document Conservation Center.**Byers, Fred R. 2003. Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs: A Guide for Librarians and Archivists. Council on Library and Information Resources: 1-4, 12-14. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub121/pub121.pdf
**Chaudhuri, Shubha. 2004. “How Do You Turn a House Into an Archives? Air Conditioning and Tape Storage in a Hot and humid Environment.” In Archives for the Future: Global Perspectives on Audiovisual Archives in the 21st Century: 143-151. http://www.seagullindia.com/archive/download.html
Lewis, Alan F. 2003. “Risk Reduction Through Preventative Care, Handling, and Storage.” Proceedings of the Sound Savings: Preserving Audio Collections Symposium, July 2003, University of Texas at Austin.
http://www.arl.org/preserv/sound_savings_proceedings/Risk_reduction-2.shtmlSyracuse University Library. 1995. “Procedures for Recovering Audio and Sound Recording Materials.”http://libwww.syr.edu/information/preservation/audio.htm
Various Authors. Conservation Online: Resources for Conservation Professionals. “Disaster Preparedness and Response.”http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/bytopic/disasters/
Additional
* Fakhfakh, Moncef. 1995. ?Emergency plan for dealing with accumulations of records and archives in government services: a RAMP study.? UNESCO Document CII-95/WS/4 (http://www.unesco.org/webworld/ramp/html/r9504e/r9504e00.htm).
* Library of Congress. “Cylinder, Disc and Tape Care in a Nutshell” (http://www.loc.gov/preserv/care/record.html).
* Library of Congress. “Emergency Preparedness and Response”
(http://www.loc.gov/preserv/pubsemer.html).
* Plathe, Axel & Dietrich Schueller. “Safeguarding Documentary
Heritage: A Virtual Exhibit”
(http://www.unesco.org/webworld/virtual_exhibition/index.shtml).
* Schüller, Dietrich, McLaughlin, Heather R., and Reginald Clarke.
2000. "Special Report on Audio-visual Carriers and Oral History."
In International Preservation News 21 May: pp. 5-9.Week 8 (February 26th) Preserving Fragile Media and Strategies for Copying.
Readings:
**Bradley, Kevin (Ed.). 2004. Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects. International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA): 1-10 and 23-33 (in reader).**Brylawski, Sam. 2003. “Review of Audio Collection Preservation Trends and Challenges.” Proceedings of the Sound Savings: Preserving Audio Collections Symposium, July 2003, University of Texas, Austin.
**Cohen, Elizabeth. 2001."Preservation of Audio." In Folk Heritage
Collections in Crisis. Washington DC: Council on Library and
Information Resources: 20-31:
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub96/contents.html
Recommended Reading and Resources:
* Hurst-Wahl, Jill. Digitization 101. http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com
* Boston, George, editor. 1998. Safeguarding the Documentary
Heritage: A Guide to Standards, Recommended Practices, and
Reference Literature Related to the Preservation of Documents of
All Kinds. UNESCO Document CII-98/WS/: Available online at
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/mdm/administ/en/guide/guidetoc.htm
* Cube Tec Website: http://www.cube-tec.com/
* Fleischhauer, Carl. 2003. “The Library of Congress Audio-Visual
Prototyping.”
* Gibbs, John R. 2003. “University of Washington Music Library:
Audio Preservation and Restoration, including some links to film
and video tape preservation.” Available at
http://www.lib.washington.edu/Music/preservation.html
* Schüller, Dietrich. 2001. "Life Expectancy Testing of Magnetic
Tapes-A Key to a Successful Strategy in Audio and Video
Preservation." AES 20th International Conference: Archiving.
Restoration, and New Methods of Recording, pp. 11-14.
* Schüller, Dietrich. 2001. "Preserving the Facts for the Future:
Principles and Practices for the Transfer of Analog Audio
Documents into the Digital Domain." In Journal of the Audio
Engineering Society v. 49 no. 7/8, July/August: pp. 618-621.
* Pavuza, Franz and Nadja Wallaszkovits. 2003. “Uncompressed Video
Archiving: A Strategy for Safeguarding the Austrian Video Research
Footage.” In the Journal for the International Association of
Sound and Audiovisual Archives. Number 21. Pages 11-16.
* Various Authors. 2003. “AES Technical Committee Report:
Recommendation for delivery of recorded music projects.” Available
at http://www.aes.org/technical/documents/AESTD1002.1.03-10_1.pdf
* Various Authors. 2001. “IASA Technical Committee Report: The
Safeguarding of the Audio Heritage: Ethics, Principles and
Preservation Strategy: Version 3.” Available online at
http://www.iasa-web.org/IASA_TC03/TC03_English.pdf
* Hess, Richard. Tips and Notes on magnetic media http://www.richardhess.com/notes/ )
Week 9 (March 4th) Access and Strategies for Disseminating Archival
Holdings.
Guest speaker: Stephen Davison (Head, UCLA Digital Library)Readings:
**Diamant, Tom. “Archiving the Arhoolie Foundation’s Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings.”
**Danielson, Virginia. "Stating the Obvious: Lessons Learned Attempting Access to Archival Audio Collections" " in Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis. Washington DC: Council on Library and Information Resources 2001: 4-19. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub96/contents.html
**Explore the websites of several archival music providers and write a short review of what you think of them.
Seeger, Anthony. 1996. “Ethnomusicologists, Archives, Professional Organizations, and the Shifting Ethics of Intellectual Property.” In Yearbook for Traditional Music, Vol. 28: 87-105.
Recommended Readings and Resources:
*UCLA Digital Library. 2003. “Frontera Project Website.”
http://digital.library.ucla.edu/frontera/
* Internet Archive. 2003. “Live Music Archive.” Available at
http://www.archive.org/audio/
* Library of Congress. 2003. “American Memory.” Available at
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html
* Online Archive of California. 2003. “Advanced Search.” Available
at http://www.oac.cdlib.org/search.findingaid.html#adv
* Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. 2003. “Smithsonian Recordings
Folkways Recordings List.” Available at http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/SearchResults.aspx?BrowseBy=album
* Smithsonian Global Sound. 2003. Available at
http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/missionstatement.aspx
* UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive. 2003. “Radio Show.” Available at
http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/Archive/radio_show.htm
Week 10 March 11th: Budgets, Staffing, Outreach, New Directions; Security, Storage, Conservation, and Disaster PreparednessReadings:
Various Authors. 2004. “Appendix B: The First Debate: Archivists Versus Administrators.” In Archives for the Future: Global Perspectives on Audiovisual Archives in the 21st Century: 258-266.
Various Authors. 2004. “Appendix A: Final Workshop Documents.” In Archives for the Future: Global Perspectives on Audiovisual Archives in the 21st Century: 245-257. http://www.seagullindia.com/archive/download.html
Sound Directions NEH Grant Proposal:
http://dlib.indiana.edu/projects/sounddirections/projectDoc/admin/grant.shtmlUCLA in LA funded Ethnomusicology Archive projects. AFAMILA and GALA
Websites: http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/archive/gala.htm and
http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/archive/afamila.htmRecommended Readings and Resources:
* Association of Recorded Sound Collectors. 2006. “Education and raining in Audiovisual Archiving and Preservation.”http://www.arsc-audio.org/ETresources.html
* Screen Sound Australia. 2006. “Graduate Certificate in Audiovisual
Archiving.” http://malcolm.nfsa.afc.gov.au/preservation/graduate_certificate.html
* Stoler, Ann Laura. 2002. “Colonial Archives and the Arts of Governance: On the Content in the Form.” In Refiguring the Archive, edited by Carolyn Hamilton, et al, 83-101. Cape Town, South Africa: David Philip; Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers; Norwell, MA (on reserve in Archive).
* Ward, Alan. 1990. “Chapter 5: Accommodation, Equipment, and Facilities.” In A Manual of Sound Archive Administration. Gower Press: Hants, England: 80?-107 (on reserve in Archive).Week 11, Finals Week, Final Meeting: Presentation of Student Papers (March 14th 1 – 5 PM)
Final paper and reading journal to be turned in to Ethnomusicology Archive at the
Ethnomusicology Archive on or before March 19th at 12:00 noon. No extensions