A lot of different topics were covered, but one that might particularly interest some of our staff and students was a reminder about a very special archive of sound recordings - the David Fanshawe World Music Archive. They have 3,200 stereo master tapes; 40,000 colour slides and 70 of Fanshawe's hand-written journals.
Of course, most people remember him for his epic piece, African Sanctus. But he was an ethnomusicologist through and through, and this archive represents a lifetime's work collecting tunes from all over the world. Scholars are warmly invited to visit the collections, which are curated by a sound engineer, a librarian and arts manager, and Jane Fanshawe herself, the manager of Fanshawe One World Music.
http://www.fanshawe.com/
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