Robert Garfias lecture recordings: U Khin Zaw, Undated

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Garfias, Robert
Title
Robert Garfias lecture recordings: U Khin Zaw
Dates
Undated
Quantity
12 items  :  OT- 6 reels (7 1/2 ips, full-track, 7"); WD - 6 CDs (digital, stereo); Duration: 3:00:00
Collection Number
1973005
Summary
Lectures by U Khin Zaw, director of the Burma Broadcasting Service, utilizing taped examples of music, recorded by Robert Garfias, likely at the University of Michigan in 1973.
Repository
University of Washington Ethnomusicology Archives
University of Washington
Ethnomusicology Archives
Box 353450
Seattle, WA
98195-3450
Telephone: 2065430974
ethnoarc@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

Unrestricted: collection is open for research.

Languages
English

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Robert Garfias was born in San Francisco in 1932, the child of Mexican-American parents. As a youngster he studied classical guitar and jazz saxophone. In high school he studied Western classical music composition, and he formed a jazz combo that played gigs for beatniks in the North Beach area of San Francisco, where he traveled in a circle of musicians that included Dave Brubeck, Vince Delgado, Vince Guaraldi, Harry Partch, and Bill Smith. During his career he founded the ethnomusicology program at the University of Washington; served as Dean of Arts at the University of California, Irvine, as a member of the Smithsonian Council, and as a presidential appointee to the U.S. National Council for the Arts; and conducted significant periods of fieldwork and language study in Japan, Okinawa, Korea, the Philippines, Mexico, Zimbabwe, Central America, Burma, Romania, Turkey, Spain, Portugal, and among Okinawans in the United States.

- Society for Ethnomusicology Newsletter (Vol. 7, No. 4, September 2013)

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

Recorded with Nagra III.

Lectures by U Khin Zaw, director of the Burma Broadcasting Service, utilizing taped examples of music.

Contents summary: Tape 1 - Yodaya, series of songs (only titles are announced); Tape 2 - Patt Pyou (Chinese classical songs), with explanation in English; Tape 3 - 2 genres of classical music: Kyou and Bwe, with explanation in English; Tape 4 - Introduction to lecture series (in English), explanation of scales, Nat (ritual) music; Tape 5 - Mahori, Yodaya song preserved in Thai language from Ramayana, 2 Talaing songs; Tape 6 - Folk music: Byo, Ozi, Baingi songs.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Classical Music--Burma
  • Classical Music--China
  • Ethnomusicology
  • Folk music--China
  • Folk music--Thailand
  • Ritual
  • Songs, Burmese--Burma

Geographical Names

  • Asia
  • Burma--Asia--Southeast Asia
  • Southeast Asia--Asia--Southeast Asia

Form or Genre Terms

  • Lecture
  • Sound Recordings

Other Creators

  • Personal Names
    • Khin Zaw, U, 1905- (performer)