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Robert Garfias recordings: UCLA Gagaku, 1958-1959
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Garfias, Robert
- Title
- Robert Garfias recordings: UCLA Gagaku
- Dates
- 1958-1959 (inclusive)19581959
- Quantity
- 8 items : OT - 4 reels (7 1/2 ips, full-track (2) and 1/2 tr. mono (2), 7"); 4 WAV files; Duration: 2:43:12
- Collection Number
- 2014011
- Summary
- Several recordings of the UCLA Gagaku ensemble, recorded in 1958 and 1959 and directed by Robert Garfias.
- 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
Gagaku performances recorded at UCLA; tape copies deposited in the University of Washington Ethnomusicology Archives by Robert Garfias, 8/2013.
Hand-written notes on back of tape boxes difficult to decipher (see photo-copies in documentation file)
Performer names not included.
Contents (information taken from tape boxes):
2014-11.1 - UCLA Gagaku Group Master - Gagaku I (full-track)
2014-11.2 - UCLA Gagaku Group 1958 - Master - Gagaku II (full-track)
2014-11.3 - Gagaku 59 at UCLA (1/2 tr. mono)
2014-11.4 - Gagaku at UCLA 1959 (1/2 tr. mono)
Transmission Data: Digital files created 6/2014 - 2014-11.1.wav (30:28), 2014-11.2.wav (22:46), 2014-11.3.wav (58:21) (includes both tape sides - 26:51, 31:30), 2014-11.4.wav (51:37) (includes both tape sides - 25:56, 25:41) (48 kHz, 24-bit)
Documentation: Photo-copies of notes on original tape boxes
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Dance--Japan
- Ethnomusicology
- Gagaku
- Music--Japan
Geographical Names
- Asia
- Japan
Form or Genre Terms
- Sound Recordings