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Royal Thai Consulate-General Delegation visit to Department of Ethnomusicology

On Thursday 24 February 2022, the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology was honored to welcome Consul-General Tor Saralamba of the Royal Thai Consulate-General, together with his colleagues Consul Areeya Prajunpanich Forastieri and Mr. Kenny Young, Assistant to the Consul-General.

The Oral History Project of American Jewish Music

The field of Jewish Music is gaining a valuable resource which will expand knowledge about the evolving nature of music of the American Jewish experience. 

Mantle Hood papers now available online

The Ethnomusicology Archive is happy to announce that the Mantle Hood Papers are available online on UCLA Library Digital Collections.  This collection focuses on Hood's early papers and correspondence (1950s) and was donated to the Archive in 2011 by Hood's sons, Marlowe, Maiyo, Mitro, and Madé.&n

Donn Borcherdt photos (Mexico, Chile) now online

The UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive is thrilled to announce that photos from the Donn Borcherdt Collection are now online as part of UCLA Library Digital Collections.
 
Donald R. Borcherdt, known as "Donn" to his friends and colleagues, received his B.A.

Highlights from the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive: Black Music and Musicians

"Black Music and Musicians in Los Angeles" is a collection of oral history interviews with Bette Yarbrough Cox, Richard Anthony Dedeaux, Margaret Pleasant Douroux, Albert McNeil, Evelyn Freeman Roberts, and Don L.

Highlights from the Ethnomusicology Archive: the Aman collection

The Aman Folk Ensemble had its roots in a UCLA student dance group called the UCLA Village Dancers. In 1963, the campus group was re-conceived by Anthony Shay (Associate Professor of Dance at Pomona College) and Leona Wood (painter and dancer), as Aman.

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