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Advice to Parents of Music Students
Anthony Seeger
Anthony Seeger is a Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the heir to the great musical legacy of the Seeger family – among other notables, his grandfather Charles Seeger was a musicologist and his uncle Pete Seeger was an influential folk singer and member of The Weavers. Seeger is a specialist in the music of the Suyá people of central Brazil, as well as of protest and struggle music, and has written widely in these and other fields. He is also a trained music archivist, and runs the music archive facility at University of California, Los Angeles. From 1988 to 2000, he was Director of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings at the Smithsonian Institute.
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Description: Anthony Seeger, Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles, reassures parents about the myriad of possibilities that are open to students of music, and reminds them that even if what their child is doing sounds terrible to them, it still might be the sound that changes the world.
Shoot Date: November 2007 |
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