D.K. Wilgus and Wayland D. Hand established Folklore studies at UCLA, and together founded the Folklore and Mythology Program in 1965. Wilgus was the Program’s first chair and served in that position for 17 years. During his tenure at UCLA, Wilgus built an archive of folksong and folk music of over 8,000 commercial recordings and 3,000 field recordings. These recordings are now part of the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive.
The Music of Japan ensemble began in 1956 as a gagaku group led by then-graduate student Robert Garfias.
“Music of the World: Ethnomusicology at UCLA” is a recruitment video directed by Professor Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy (the Dept. of Ethnomusicology’s founding chair), and produced and edited by Brian Hodel.
Photo of Dr. Angela Lühning by Ricardo Pamfilio de Sousa.
Interview by Michael Iyanaga
To quote UNESCO: Audiovisual documents, such as films, radio and television programmes, audio and video recordings, contain the primary records of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Do you want to learn how to do research? Use everything from periodical indices to special collection/archive finding aids? Need to know how to cite what you find? In other words, do you want to become information literate? Take ESM 185, a new one-unit tutorial class in Ethnomusicology.
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