Series III: Concert correspondence files, 1935-1973

The records in Series 1, the Ethnomusicology Doctoral Program, relate to the establishment of the Music Department's advanced degree program in world music. The proposal drafts and notes, created in large part by David McAllester, describe the program and its requirements, including budget information. McAllester's proposal for an anthropology department, dating to roughly the same period, is also included. The meeting minutes, memoranda, correspondence, and grant proposals relate to the creation of the ethnomusicology doctoral program. An NDEA fellowship application and a report entitled Program for Advanced Studies in World Music are also included. The Creative Arts Program documents contain information on the ethnic music component of the music program.

Series 2, Photographs, comprises images and printed material relating to music performances by members of the Wesleyan community or artists visiting the university, circa 1947 to 1988. Approximately 400 print photographs--as well as contact sheets, negatives, and slides--are included. The photographs are arranged in two subseries: Faculty and Student Groups, and World Music Performers. The Faculty and Student Groups subseries includes images of Music Department staff and student music group members, either posed or during concerts. Photographs in the World Music Performers subseries show visiting artists who specialized in African, Indian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Native American music. Instruments shown include the Indian been, kanjira, mrdangam, sarangi, sarod, sitar, tabla, tambura, and vina; the Javanese gender and gamelan; and the Japanese koto, shakuhachi, and shamisen. Photographs of ethnic dance performances and Javanese shadow plays are also included. A third subseries, Printed Material, consists of biographies and resumes of world music performers. A fourth subseries, Oversized Material, includes a drawing of Professor Richard Winslow as well as programs and explanatory notes for world music performances.

Materials in Series 3, Concert correspondence files; Series 4, Events scrapbooks; and Series 5, Additional records and programs, have not been processed.