The Archival Funds of the E. V. Gippius Music and Ethnographic Center: Issues of Preservation and Cataloguing
Abstract
In the course of the waning of the tradition of folk music, the significance of archival funds of folk musical and ethnographic material as repositories of the intangible cultural heritage is increasing. One of the largest collections of this kind is the archive of the E. V. Gippius Music and Ethnographic Center, located at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music. It is based on the fund of fieldwork audio and video materials, the collection of which is carried out by a special program that makes it possible to obtain rather extensive and diverse information from researched objects of traditional culture. The museum fund of the archive contains a significant number of ethnographic specimens. The E. V. Gippius Music and Ethnographic Center also possesses an abundant fund of manuscript materials and a specialized library, which includes books in Russian and in other Slavic languages. The article outlines a set of issues relevant to folk music collections, including the issues of preservation of information on magnetic recording media and adequate cataloging of the materials stored in the fund. In recent years the interest to the intangible cultural heritage in Russia has increased and has been fixed at the level of the state cultural policy, which would be conducive to solving any problems the keepers of the unique folk musical and ethnographic archives are confronted with.
Keywords: E. V. Gippius Music and Ethnographic Center, ethnomusicology, traditional culture, folk song, field study, cataloging, copying, nonmaterial cultural heritage
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