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The
Ethnomusicology Sound and Video Archive
The Ethnomusicology Sound and Video Archive
contains approximately 600 reel-to-reel and cassette
audio and video tapes, the majority copies of original
tapes recorded by field collectors in Venezuela, Colombia,
Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Martinique, Dominican
Republic, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Japan, Vietnam, and elsewhere.
Numerous original tape recordings are included that
were made by student and faculty ethnomusicologists
at The Florida State University who have conducted research
in Florida and elsewhere in the United States. The Archive
also includes original concert tapes, recorded on the
FSU campus by visiting artists from India, China, Japan,
Africa, South America, and by the Word Music
Ensembles from the School of Music at Florida State.
The audio tape collection is cataloged on computer,
providing easy access to the materials.
The
Ethnomusicology Sound and Video Archive also includes
VHS and Hi-8 video tapes of world music concerts performed
in Tallahassee, as well as musical events documented
from other parts of the world.
The
purposes of the Ethnomusicology Sound and Video Archive
are the following:
- to
provide a safe, dustproof, nonmagnetic repository
for original and second generation video and sound
recordings of field work, world music concerts, and
world music radio broadcasts
- to
provide students and local, national, and international
scholars access to world music audio and visual materials
not available elsewhere
- to
establish an original source material base for research
and teaching in ethnomusicology, world music, multicultural
music education, folklore, anthropology, and other
related disciplines at The Florida State University.
The
Music Iconography Archive
Music
iconography is the description and study of music through
images or representations. In many instances the representation
of music through paintings and other types of images
(artifacts, sculptures, photographs, mosaics, lithographs,
petroglyphs, etc.) provides the only documentation of
historic and prehistoric musical events and material
culture (musical instruments).
The
World Music Iconography Archive contains thousands of
color slides of paintings and other types of images
of musical events, dance, and musical instruments from
around the world. Music iconography is of most value
when it has neither historic, cultural, nor geographic
constraints; hence the term "World Music Iconography."
The slides are stored and cataloged by country of origin
(modern political divisions), and are indexed on computer.
The
purposes of the World Music Iconography Archive are:
- to
enhance the study and dissemination of the cultural
contexts of world music from the past and present;
- to
further the study of the performance techniques of
world musical instruments, dance, and ensembles;
- to
augment the study of organology, or the science of
musical instruments;
- to
enrich the study of symbolism in world music;
- to
provide the student, local, national, and international
community (teachers and scholars) with access to primary
and secondary photographic source materials (first
and second generation color slides) in world music
iconography, with thorough documentation.
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