Archives West Finding Aid

Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy is a researcher, writer, teacher and curator. She has written several multi-media publications centered on community development of minority traditions, especially in diasporic settings. Catlin-Jairazbhoy served as curator and presented the first concert and lecture tour outside India with a group of African-Indian Sidi performers from Gujarat, in September 2002, traveling with them in England and Wales.

Fredric Lieberman (1940-2013) received his B.M. from the Eastman School of Music, his M.A. from the University of Hawaii, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. He was a performer, composer, writer, and teacher at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His interests included organology - particularly with regard to taxonomic methods and systematic description -, the music of China, Japan, Korea, Tibet, and South India, and American vernacular music from Tin Pan Alley through contemporary rock. He taught courses on American Popular Music and World Musics.