Robert Garfias

Robert Garfias (born 1932) is a key figure in ethnomusicology and musicology. He is a professor of Anthropology [cite web | url = http://www.faculty.uci.edu/scripts/UCIFacultyProfiles/DetailDept.CFM?ID=2524 | title = UCI Faculty Profiles: Robert Garfias | date = 2002-08-07 | accessdate = 2007-04-16 | publisher = Regents of the University of California] and a member of The Social Dynamics and Complexity Group [cite web | url = http://www.socsci.uci.edu/socdyn/ | title = The Social Dynamics and Complexity Group | publisher = UCI School of Social Sciences | accessdate = 2007-04-16] at the University of California, Irvine as well as a professor at the Japanese National Museum of Ethnology [cite web | url = http://www.minpaku.ac.jp/english | language = English | title = National Museum of Ethnology, Japan] in Senri, Osaka. He completed his doctorate at University of California, Los Angeles and taught at the University of Washington where he established the graduate program in ethnomusicology before coming to University of California, Irvine. He has conducted research on the analysis of complex music systems, including the Turkish Ottoman Classical system, Japanese court music and many other musical traditions in which he is fluent as a musical performer, linguist, and archivist. He has also written on "The Role of Dreams and Spirit Possession in the Mbira Dza Vadzimu Music of the Shona People of Zimbabwe". [cite journal | last = Garfias | first = Robert | title = THE ROLE OF DREAMS AND SPIRIT POSSESSION IN THE MBIRA DZA VADZIMU MUSIC OF THE SHONA PEOPLE OF ZIMBABWE | journal = J. ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS | volume = 5(3) | issue = 1979-80 | year = 1979 | url = http://aris.ss.uci.edu/rgarfias/bio-research/dreams%20and%20trance%2001.pdf] Complexity in the domain of expressive culture, music, and the social organization of complex musical traditions is one of his major specialties.

He has been actively engaged in the area of public policy and the arts as a presidentially appointed member of the [http://www.nea.gov/about/NCA/About_NCA.html| National Council on the Arts] and as a member of the Council of the Smithsonian Institution as well as with numerous state and local arts agencies. In these areas his primary concern is with ethnicity and cultural diversity.

In 2005 the Government of Japan awarded him the Order of the Rising Sun, [cite news | url = http://www.bowers.org/about_us/about_press.asp?PRID=239 | title = Bowers Presents Lecture by Ethnomusicologist Dr. Robert Garfias on Feb. 18 | publisher = The Bowers Museum | date = 2006-01-26 | accessdate=2007-05-16] one of the country’s oldest and highest honors. He was cited for his contributions to promoting traditional Japanese culture and cultural exchanges between Japan and the United States.

Links to Garfias Films, Musical Archives, Citations

Sound Recordings and Films
* Sanjo (music), Traditional Korean musical instruments (Ajaeng, Gayageum, Jongmyo), [http://eee.uci.edu/programs/rgarfias/sound-recordings/sanjo.html Garfias site]
* Pyeongyeong
* [http://aris.ss.uci.edu/rgarfias/kiosk/mexico-1964.html Mexico Field Recordings]
* Z.M. Dagar [http://eee.uci.edu/programs/rgarfias/films.html Garfias films]
* [http://eee.uci.edu/programs/rgarfias/sound-recordings/india-1974.html South India Field Recordings]
* [http://media.nacs.uci.edu/rgarfias/mp3/burma/burma.html Burma Field Recordings]
* [http://eee.uci.edu/programs/rgarfias/films.html Rudra veena]
* Hamza El Din [http://eee.uci.edu/programs/rgarfias/films.html Garfias films]
* [http://media.nacs.uci.edu/rgarfias/mp3/turkey/turkey-all.html Turkey Field Recordings]
* South Indian Veena [http://eee.uci.edu/programs/rgarfias/films.html Garfias films]
* [http://eee.uci.edu/programs/rgarfias/sound-recordings/romania-1977.html Romanian Music Field Recordings] * [http://eee.uci.edu/programs/rgarfias/sound-recordings/spain-1968.htmlSpain Field Recordings]
* Kulintang [http://eee.uci.edu/programs/rgarfias/films.html Garfias films]
* Guzheng Chinese zitther music [http://aris.ss.uci.edu/rgarfias/kiosk/media.html Garfias films]
* Shona musicArticles
* Marimba Music of Mexico and Central America [http://aris.ss.uci.edu/rgarfias/bio-research/marimba.pdf Garfias site]
* [http://aris.ss.uci.edu/rgarfias/bio-research/turkish-lautareasca.pdf Romanian Gypsy(Roma) Music]
* Kagura [http://aris.ss.uci.edu/rgarfias/bio-research/mikagura.pdf The Sacred Mikagura Ritual of the Japanese Court]
* Public Policy Paper: [http://aris.ss.uci.edu/rgarfias/bio-research/DIVERST1.pdf : Cultural Diversity and the Arts in America 1989]

ee also

# List of University of California, Irvine people

External links

* [http://aris.ss.uci.edu/rgarfias/bio-research/index.html Further Biographical Information on Robert Garfias]
* [http://www.faculty.uci.edu/scripts/UCIFacultyProfiles/DetailDept.CFM?ID=2524 UCI Profile]

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