Gourlay Archive

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 2603 GOURLAY
Held at	: Goldsmiths College, University of London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.gold.ac.uk/library/ ›
Full title	: Gourlay Archive
Date(s)	: c.1970-1990
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 4 cartons
Name of creator(s)	: Gourlay | Kenneth A | fl 1970-1990
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Kenneth A Gourlay (c 1920-1995) was a British ethnomusicologist who conducted work amongst the Karamojong of Uganda, in Nigeria and in Papua New Guinea. Gourlay went to Uganda in the 1960s to teach English at Makarere University and was by 1984 Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Musicology Section of the Centre for Nigerian Cultural Studies at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

The archive includes field recordings, papers, drafts of articles, notebooks and a set of index cards from Kenneth A Gourlay's ethnomusicological research on the musical cultures of the Karamojong of Uganda, in Nigeria and in Papua New Guinea.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Arranged as at deposit. Folders are numbered, presumably by Gourlay using his own numbering system and appear to be broadly arranged according to ethnographic group. Tapes are also labelled with a numbering system.

Conditions governing access:

Access is limited, by appointment only.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copying policy is available in the library.

Finding aids:

Catalogued on CALM http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/archive

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Acquired from Kenneth Gourlay's family c. 1995.

Allied Materials

Related material:

The Kenneth Gourlay Uganda Collectionis held in the British Library's Archival Sound Recordings Collection. This consists of 32 reel-to-reel tapes 9C105), of Ugandan and Nigerian recordings which have been digitised, http://sounds.bl.uk

Publication note:

'A descriptive catalogue of recorded sound' compiled by Gourlay for the musicology section of the Centre for Nigerian Cultural Studies, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. [British Library Shelf no: HUS 789.296-690-016-6]

Description Notes

Archivist's note:

Tapes are labelled with the same numbering system as used on material at the British Library. The Papua New Guinea field recordings may be unique to this repository.

Description compiled by Jacqueline Cooke, Research Support Librarian

Rules or conventions:

Date(s) of descriptions:

2008