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Robert Garfias field recordings: Burma LP master tapes, Undated
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Garfias, Robert
- Title
- Robert Garfias field recordings: Burma LP master tapes
- Dates
- Undated
- Quantity
- 4 audiotapes : EC - 2 reels (15 ips, 1/2 tr. stereo, 10"); WT - 2 reels (7 1/2 ips, 1/2 tr. stereo, 7"); Duration: 00:45:01
- Collection Number
- 1983055
- Summary
- Master tapes compiled from Robert Garfias field recordings, collected in Burma.
- Repository
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University of Washington Ethnomusicology Archives
University of Washington
Ethnomusicology Archives
Box 353450
Seattle, WA
98195-3450
Telephone: 2065430974
ethnoarc@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
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Access is restricted.
- 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
Contents:
83-55.1 - intended as master for record side 1 - 1) Sidaw: Neyi Byo (7:45) (field no. 74/026, archives no. AP1/74-1.26 #5), 2) Nat Hsaing: Nga Bauk (field no. 74/037, archives no. AP1/74-1.37 - appears to be 4:10 segment of item 23:55 in length on 74-1.37)
83-55.2 - intended as master for record side 2 - no contents list.
Other: selections copied from various field recordings to serve as a record master (no. PD 1003). These tapes were among mystery tapes in the archives at least since 1982 and processed during 1988. Previously, a trial tape corresponding to the master tape for side 1 was in the archives under the 83-55 collection #; it was dumped in favor of these 2 master tapes (trial tape had a high-frequency noise on left channel). List of timings found in tape box.
Documentation: Timings (but no titles) of musical items
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Classical Music--Burma
- Ethnomusicology
- Songs, Burmese--Burma
Geographical Names
- Asia
- Burma--Asia--Southeast Asia
Form or Genre Terms
- Field recordings
- Sound Recordings