UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive

Contact Information

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Address
1630 Schoenberg Music Building Box 951657 Los Angeles, CA 90095
Hours
Call, email, or check our website for current hours; Appointment recommended
Contact
Maureen Russell
Head of Cataloging and Archivist
archive@schoolofmusic.ucla.edu
Alternate Contact
Aaron Bittel
Website
http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/archive/

UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive

UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive
1630 Schoenberg Music BuildingBox 951657
Los Angeles, CA. 90095

Access and Management

Access

Available to the public?
Yes
Available to outside researchers?
Yes
Reservations required?
No
Onsite technology available
Yes
Catalog System
Online Catalog; select finding aids available at Online Archive of California
Repository
No

Management

Archive / Collection information

Though the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive has traditionally focused on collecting musics outside of Los Angeles, in recent years the Archive has developed a significant collection of LA-based materials. These materials include the following: AFAMILA - Archiving Filipino American Music in Los Angeles: includes commercial and non-commercial recordings of LA based FilAm artists. Donn Borcherdt Collection: includes recordings of LA based Mexican music. GALA - Gospel Archiving in Los Angeles: includes commercial and non-commercial recordings of LA based Gospel music; UCLA Ethnomusicology Audiovisual Collection: includes audiovisual recordings documenting guest artists, lectures, and performance ensembles associated with ethnomusicology at UCLA; Emily Sene Collection: includes field recordings of LA based Sephardic music; D. K. Wilgus Folksong Collection: includes LA based field recordings documenting original field recordings of cowboy songs, jokes, oral histories, Japanese tales, Israeli folklore, blues, and folk music.

Organization type
Archive College/University
Topic(s)
African Descent Armenian Descent Artistic Communities Asian Descent College/University Faculty Community Service Organizations Education European Descent Jewish Descent Mexican Descent/Chicano/Latino Middle Eastern Descent Multiethnic Musicians Native American Descent/Indigenous Politics/Government Prisoners Religious Seniors Students TV/Film/Radio Veterans Youth
Language(s)
Arabic Armenian Chinese Dutch English Farsi French German Greek Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Indigenous Languages Indonesian Italian Japanese Korean Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) Norwegian Portuguese Romanian Russian Spanish Swahili Swedish Tagalog Tamil Thai Vietnamese Yiddish
Time period(s)
1950-1963 1964-1980 1981-Present
Holdings type(s)
Oral Histories Manuscripts/Personal Papers Ephemera