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Separating Music as a Cultural Force from Music as a Commodity
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, discusses his efforts to separate music as culture from music as a commodity to purchase – and why he had to go all the way to the Brazilian outback to do this. He then goes on to discuss the 20th-century struggle between live musicians and the spread of the jukebox to place this tension in historical perspective.
Shoot Date: November 2007 |
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