UW Ethnomusicology Archives video recordings: Endo Suanda and Sam Ang-Sam Concert recordings (Music of Southeast Asia), 1990-04-12

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Sercombe, Laurel; University of Washington Ethnomusicology Archives
Title
UW Ethnomusicology Archives video recordings: Endo Suanda and Sam Ang-Sam Concert recordings (Music of Southeast Asia)
Dates
1990-04-12
Quantity
2 videotapes  :  OT - 2 vcts (8mm, sp, color, stereo, TDK MP-90) (Tapes noted missing (5/2002) (8/2010))
Collection Number
1990008
Summary
A faculty artist recital featuring Sam-Ang Sam and Endo Suanda, recorded at the University of Washington, Meany Theater, April 12, 1990.
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

Historical NoteReturn to Top

Laurel Sercombe has been the Archivist for the Ethnomusicology Program at the University of Washington since 1982. She has co-produced a series of music recordings with Northwest Folklife, lectured for classes in Ethnomusicology, Library and Information Science, and American Indian Studies, and designed and taught a course on sound archiving. In 1998 she received a pre-doctoral Smithsonian Research Fellowship and in 2001 received her Ph.D. with the dissertation And Then It Rained: Power and Song in Western Washington Coast Salish Myth Narratives. She is a member of the Music Library Association, the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, and the Society for Ethnomusicology, for which she served as Current Discographer 1992–2000 and Treasurer 2000–2004. She serves on the boards of Jack Straw Productions and Northwest Heritage Resources. In 2013 she organized and hosted "Sounds of the World," a series of six programs for UWTV featuring film footage from the Robert Garfias Collection in the Ethnomusicology Archives.

Sam-Ang Sam (1950-) is a Cambodian-American ethnomusicologist. He studied music and dance in Cambodia during his youth, but moved to the United States after the Khmer Rouge took over the country in 1975. In 1998, he earned his doctorate in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University. He was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship in 1994 and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1998.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

Recorded by Laurel Sercombe for the UW Ethnomusicology Archives with Sony CCD-V220 camcorder (built-in stereo mic).

Performers:

1st half (Khmer music and dance): Sam-Ang Sam; Pin Peat Ensemble (composed of UW students); Chan Moly Sam, Malene Sam, Laksmi Sam, and Somaly Hay/dancers.

2nd half (Cirebonese gamelan and Topeng dance): Endo Suanda and Undang Sumarna with the Cirebonese Gamelan Ensemble (composed of UW students); Endo Suanda and Marjie Suanda/dancers.

Contents:

1st half - Khmer music: Apsara; Sek Sarika; Mano Sanchettana; Mekhala.

2nd half - Cirebonese gamelan: Merang Dawa. Gamelan and Topeng: Tumenggung and Jinggananom dance.

Tapes noted missing as of 5/2002.

Documentation: Flyer, program.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Cambodians--Asia--Southeast Asia
  • Concerts
  • Ethnomusicology
  • Javanese--Asia--Southeast Asia
  • Video recordings in ethnomusicology

Geographical Names

  • Seattle (Wash.)
  • Southeast Asia--Asia--Southeast Asia

Form or Genre Terms

  • Video recordings

Other Creators

  • Personal Names
    • Sam, Sam-Ang, 1950- (performer)
    • Suanda, Endo (performer)