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Robert Garfias collection: Nampo No Ongaku, Undated
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Garfias, Robert
- Title
- Robert Garfias collection: Nampo No Ongaku
- Dates
- Undated
- Quantity
- 2 items : EC- 1 reel; 1 WAV file (48 kHz, 24-bit); Duration: 00:27:45
- Collection Number
- 1982070
- Summary
- Copies of 78 rpm records from the collection of Robert Garfias, potentially re-released as a set, on Japanese label.
- 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: Nampo No Ongaku [Music from the South]
Collection appears to contain copies of a commercial re-release of 78 rpm records; the records themselves are not in the Archives.
Contents:
Siam: Butran [[Butkan?] Song. Inalo [Inao?] legend. Pipot orchestra
Siam: Kurao Nai. Ramayana. Chake (Alligator ch'in)
Sumatra: Bonjo Song
Sunda: Kechapi Suling (slendro)
North Siam: Khene, "Lotus of Laos"
Annam: "Thorny Road," Yueh Ch'in. Bokocho (tuning)
Sunda: Wayang (Golek?) Mahabarata
Sunda: "Which Fence?" Rebab-kechapi
Burma: "Shining Burma" (incomplete)
"Processed through auto-correlator"
Transmission Data: Digital file created 7/2014 - 82-70.1.wav (48 kHz, 24-bit)
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Ethnomusicology
- Folk music, Thai
- Folk music--Thailand
- Music--Thailand
- Sundanese
Geographical Names
- Asia
- Burma--Asia--Southeast Asia
- Sumatra
- Thailand--Asia--Southeast Asia
Form or Genre Terms
- Sound Recordings