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| | Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology: RUSKIN - Collecting and Connecting: Archiving Filipino American Music in Los Angeles |
 | | Archiving Filipino American Music in Los Angeles (AFAMILA), a project developed by the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive in partnership with Kayamanan Ng Lahi Philippine Folk Arts (KNL), was implemented in 2003 with the goal of documenting a year in the musical life of Filipino Americans in Los Angeles. |
 | | The music archive, then, whether conceived of as a scientific laboratory, a repository for field research, or a sanctuary for endangered music, is a space in which researchers exercise the power to represent culture. |
 | | Documentation is of value to the Filipino American community, he argues, to the extent that it serves community interests in “research and education,” artistic development, and the generation of “cultural prosperity.” And with the equipment purchased for the project, KNL plans to assist artists with such documentation efforts: |
| www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu /pre/Vol11/Vol11html/V11Ruskin.html (3775 words) |
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