Item Detail
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Keeling, Richard
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Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology
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A guide to early field recordings (1900-1949) at the Lowie Museum of Anthropology
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Book
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Berkeley, Calif.
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c1991
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University of California Press
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xxvii, 487 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
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English
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0520097203; 9780520097209
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Folk music--Discography--Catalogs.
Indians of North America--Music--Discography--Catalogs.
Indians of North America--California--Music--Discography--Catalogs.
Indians of North America--Languages--Discography--Catalogs.
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Sound Recordings; Folk Music; Native American Music; Lowie Museum
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ML 156.4 .F5 K43 1991
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Keeling, Richard. A Guide to Early Field Recordings (1900-1949) at the Lowie Museum of Anthropology. University of California Publications: Catalogs and Biographies, eds. Roger Berry, Richard Blanchard, Vinton Dearing, James Deetz, Robert Harlan, and John Tanno, vol. 6. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1991.
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Intended for the researcher interested in listening to examples of stories and songs collected from native American Indian tribes in California between 1900 and 1938 that are kept in the Lowie Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Another stated purpose is to provide a guide for further research to foster greater understanding of California's native cultures. Also intended as a resource for the modern American Indian wishing to discover more about the cultures represented by these groups.
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Catalogues the sung and spoken examples collected on wax cylinders by field researchers who went to villages of the Indians of California from the years 1900 to 1938. Contains 2,510 separate items (songs or stories) from 112 expeditions. Approximately 65 somewhat individual tribes are represented in the recordings. Also includes brief descriptions of the remaining parts of their field recordings collection, consisting of additional examples recorded later on disc, wire, or tape.
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Grouped into separate research expeditions, or series. Each entry gives the tribe and name(s) of the performer(s), year of collection, location, and the collector. Lists reference sources on music and culture of the tribe. Individual records within the entry include the subject or title of the examples, archive number (14-for the original cylinder version and 24- for the tape that was later made from each item), duration, and recording speed. Also includes notes that were handwritten by the researcher at the time of recording, as well as cross-references to other versions of the example listed in the book. If various performers were recorded in the expedition, each comes under a separate section with the designation A,B,C, etc. Contains two appendices listing brief descriptions of the recordings made later on disc, wire, or tape, and two indexes grouped by tribal group or collectors. Begins with introduction divided into sections on the background of the recording projects, other locations of recordings of California Indians, how to use the guide, and obtaining tapes of the material listed.
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Provides interesting background on the cultural contexts for many of the examples as well as the field of ethnomusicological research among the California Indians. Enables ease of further exploration of this subject.
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Recordings only able to be made of one person at a timeonly nineteen of these examples are of ensembles. Limited number of tribes represented.
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BYU Mus Ref
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2301