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Robert Garfias recordings: Music and Dances from the Sulu Islands, 1966-1970
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Garfias, Robert; Schultz, Harold
- Title
- Robert Garfias recordings: Music and Dances from the Sulu Islands
- Dates
- 1966-1970 (inclusive)19661970
- Quantity
- 1 videotapes : EC - 1 vct (VHS, stereo, b&w); Duration: 00:17:00; UW Press film catalog
- Collection Number
- 1995010
- Summary
- Video copy of film produced by the Ethnomusicology Archives and published by University of Washington Press in 1970 (16mm, b&w) (c1969); out of print 1998.
- 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
Full title: Music and Dances from the Sulu Islands, the Philippines
Filmed and recorded by Robert Garfias and Harold Schultz, March 7-15, 1966.
Contents:
1) 4 examples of Pangalay - dances from Bongao
2) 2 examples of "Igal" - dances from Sanga Sanga
3) Kulintan Ensemble from Taluksangay
4) 2 examples of "Igal" - dances from Malassa
5) "Bula Bula" - dance from Malassa
Front credits: Washington Films/Ethnic Music and Dance Series/Robert Garfias, editor/University of Washington Press/Seattle and London.
Documentation: Notes
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Ethnomusicology
- Music--Philippines
- Video recordings in ethnomusicology
Geographical Names
- Oceania
- Philippines--Asia--Southeast Asia
- Southeast Asia--Asia--Southeast Asia
- Sulu Archipelago (Philippines)
Form or Genre Terms
- Sound recordings
- Video recordings