Hiromi Lorraine Sakata Fieldwork Collection
Description: The Hiromi Lorraine Sakata Afghanistan and Pakistan Collections are different in their approach to fieldwork methodologies according to the technical equipment available for use at the time of the fieldwork in the two countries. The main fieldwork equipment for gathering information In Afghanistan in the 1960s was the portable tape recorder, and later in the 1970s, the motion picture film camera which required the syncing of a sound track and the picture on film. By the time I conducted fieldwork in Pakistan in the late 1980s through the early 2000s, the consumer portable video camera had become available for use in the field--simple equipment that I could operate by myself.
The Sakata Afghanistan Collection
The Sakata Afghanistan Collection consists of field recordings during two extensive periods of fieldwork in Afghanistan during 1966-67 and 1971-73. They have been deposited in the University of Washington Ethnomusicology Archives, but for purposes of the Ethnographic Sound Archive, only the sound files, photographs, films and M.A. thesis from the Hazarajat, Central Afghanistan 1967 and 1972 are shared in detail on this site:
1. Introduction to the Music of the Hazarajat, Central Afghanistan
a. Folders including pertinent photos
b. Folders including pertinent films
2. Metadata for the Recordings from the Hazarajat, 1967
a. Sound files recorded from in 1967
3. Metadata for the Recordings from the Hazarajat, 1972
a. Sound files recorded in 1972
4. MA Thesis: Music of the Hazarajat
a. Musical examples in the thesis are correlated and found in the 1967 Guide to Recordings from the Hazarajat, 1967 and can be heard in the sound files from the Hazarajat, 1967
5. Metadata for general Afghanistan photographic slides 1966-67
a. 1966-67 Slides
6. Metadata for general Afghanistan photographic slides 1971-73
a. 1971-73 Slides
The Sakata Pakistan Collection
The Sakata Pakistan Collection consists of field videos and DAT recordings from 1987-2004. These videos and DAT recordings have also been deposited in the University of Washington Ethnomusicology Archives, and for the most part, have been included in the Ethnographic Sound Archive:
1. Introduction to the Pakistan Videos and DAT Recordings
2. Metadata for the Pakistan Videos
3. Metadata for the Pakistan DAT Recordings
Material sourced from the Ethnomusicology Archives, University of Washington Libraries. Copyright © Hiromi Lorraine Sakata.