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October 17, 2011

28 years of music

It's been over a year now, but I just saw this report on the donation of my music collection to UCLA's Ethnomusicology Archives:

http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/archive/ear/20110201-cc-smith/#comments

NEW ACQUISITION:Collection from Former Radio Host and Publisher of ‘The Beat’Magazine

The Ethnomusicology Archive has recently acquired a collection of nearly 10,000 commercial recordings featuring music from Africa and the worldwide African diaspora. The collection comes from CC Smith,a well-known radio host of world music shows on local stations KCRW,KPFK,KCSN and KXLU since the early 1980s. She was also publisher of “The Beat,”a world music magazine that grew out of the early radio shows to become a major international publication. After “The Beat”ceased publication in 2009,Smith contact prof. Jackie DjeDje and arranged the donation of her collection of CDs,LPs,cassettes,artist promotional materials,and other materials relating to her long-running radio shows. The collection includes nearly 5,000 recordings of reggae,ska,dub,and related Jamaican and Caribbean musics.