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Robert Garfias recordings: Mi-Kagura, 1959
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Garfias, Robert
- Title
- Robert Garfias recordings: Mi-Kagura
- Dates
- 195919591959
- Quantity
- 8 items : 4 reels (acetate) (7 1/2 ips, full-track and 1/2 tr. mono, 7"); 4 WAV files; Duration: 1:27:17
- Collection Number
- 2013014
- Summary
- Sound recordings of music of the Shinto Mi-Kagura ceremony, recorded by Robert Garfias in a professional studio in Tokyo.
- 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
Recorded in fall 1959 in a professional recording studio in Tokyo; tape copies deposited in the Archives by Robert Garfias, 8/2013.
Performers: Shiba Sukeyasu, fue and voice; Togi Suenobu, voice and hichiriki; Ono Tadamaro, wagon and voice; Togi Yoshio, voice and hichiriki.
Contents summary: Tapes 1-3 contain Mi-Kagura examples (followed by short excerpts played by Togi Suenobu); tape 4 contains samples used for a lecture by Robert Garfias.
Robert Garfias' article "The Sacred Mi-Kagura of the Japanese Imperial Court" may be accessed at http://aris.ss.uci.edu/rgarfias/bio-research/mikagura.pdf
Transmission Data: Digital files created 10/2013 - 2013-14.1_Mikagura_1.wav, 2013-14.2_Mikagura_2.wav, 2013-14.3_Mikagura_3.wav, 2013-14.4_Mikagura_for_lecture.wav (48 kHz, 24-bit)
Tape formats and durations: Tape 1 (full-track, 30:53); Tape 2 (full-track, 27:37); Tape 3 (full-track to 8:13, blank to 8:35, left channel only to end, 17:28), Tape 4 (1/2 tr. mono, 11:19)
Documentation: Typed contents list and hand-written lists from tape boxes.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Classical Music--Japan
- Dance--Japan
- Dance--Religious aspects--Shinto
- Ethnomusicology
- Gagaku
- Hichiriki
- Kagura
- Music, Japanese
- Music, Shinto
- Music--Japan
- Music--Religious aspects--Shinto
- Religion
- Religious dance
- Sacred dance
- Shinto
- Shinto dance
Geographical Names
- Asia
- Japan
Form or Genre Terms
- Lecture
- Sound recordings
