Center for Ethnomusicology Indigenous Music Repatriation Projects Featured on BBC Radio 3

The Center for Ethnomusicology's project to "repatriate" Native American recordings made by collector Laura Boulton in the 1930s and 40s and purchased by Columbia in the 1960s to their source communities has been featured as part of anextensive radio feature on BBC Radio 3 (UK).  The feature includes interviews with Columbia ethnomusicologist Prof. Aaron Fox and former Columbia students Kristina Jacobsen (MA, Music, 2006, now Assistant Professor of Music at the University of New Mexico) and Nanobah Becker (MFA, Film, 2008, now a prominent, Sundance-winning Native American filmmaker).  The feature runs for about 45 minutes. 

Listen to it here.  (Flash Player Required)

Taking It All Back Home, Sunday Feature - BBC Radio 3

(Photo: Tagiugmiut Iñupiat Dancers, Barrow Alaska, 2009; Photo by A. Fox)