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Music Educator Profile: Ethnomusicologist Anthony Seeger of University of California, Los Angeles
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, speaks at length about his chosen field and what he has learned about music and culture in the course of his career. He recounts his time living among the Suyá Indians of Central Brazil and the specific ways in which that society uses music to order the rhythm of their lives, and then widens the discussion to cover some of the larger trends in Western music over the past century – for example, how recording technology transformed how music is written, experienced, and commoditized. He also discusses some of the unique challenges of being a musicologist – such as how to preserve recorded music forever, how to successfully understand cultural context when studying music, and how the study of a people’s music can change that music.
Shoot Date: November 2007 |
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