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About Us
The name, “U.P. Center for Ethnomusicology“, is an outcome of its former appellation, the “U.P. Ethnomusicology Archives”, established in June 16, 1997 by the U.P. Board of Regents, in recognition of Professor Jose Maceda’s visionary work and authorship of putting together an ethnomusicological collection of about 2500 hours of recorded music in open reel and cassette tapes, field notes, music transcriptions, song texts, photographs, music instruments, music compositions, personal files, about 2000 books and journals, all of which he personally initiated and developed as a unified institutional resource for music research.
Goal and Objectives:
The U.P. Center for Ethnomusicology aims to serve as a leading research institution in the region, perpetuate and harness the Jose Maceda Collection and generate musical and music-related knowledge and materials from an interdisciplinary perspective for academic study, pedagogy, artistic production and other applications. The Center and its collection have been developed and established to assist scholars (representing disciplines in the humanities and social sciences), composers, and serious artists and pedagogues in music, who shares the vision and goals of the Center to:
- to develop, organize, manage and conduct music research with focus on the development of new theories of music, composition, distribution of musical instruments, and recognition of fundamentals that bind together the musics of Asia, as well as the relationship of language to musical structures;
- to serve as source of producing research and educational materials and to house musical instruments;
- to publish and openly disseminate research of the Center;
- to conduct dialogues, trainings, conferences, and other fora related to its primary functions; and
- to obtain and manage funds contributed by public and private persons and entities.
Aims and Functions
The Center and its collection have been developed and established to assist scholars (representing disciplines in the humanities and social sciences), composers, and serious artists and pedagogues in music, who share the vision and goals of the Center to:
- to develop, organize, manage and conduct music research with focus on the development of new theories of music, composition, distribution of musical instruments, and recognition of fundamentals that bind together the musics of Asia, as well as the relationship of language to musical structures;
- to serve as source of producing research and educational materials and to house musical instruments;
- to publish and openly disseminate research of the Center;
- to conduct dialogues, trainings, conferences, and other fora related to its primary functions; and
- to obtain and manage funds contributed by public and private persons and entities.
