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Highlights from the Ethnomusicology Archive: the Robert Kauffman Collection

Submitted by Maureen Russell on April 5, 2013 - 8:49pm

Robert Kauffman did his fieldwork in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) in 1960-1962.  His dissertation is entitled "Multi-Part Relationships in the Shona Music of Rhodesia" and he graduated UCLA in 1971.  He was a professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Washington and the University of Pittsburgh.  He is now retired.

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