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2004.08
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Title: Cheryl Keyes Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1975-2001
Collection number: 2004.08
Creator: Cheryl Keyes
Extent:
1 box.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Ethnomusicology Archive
Los Angeles, California 90095-1490
Abstract: Cheryl L. Keyes is a Professor in the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology and specializes in rap/hip-hop music. This collection
consists of unpublished and published sound recordings collected by Cheryl Keyes as part of her research on African American
music; popular music; women's music; popular music theory; gender/cultural theory. The materials include recordings of interviews,
live performances, and rare commercial recordings.
Physical location: Access copies for many of the materials are available in the Ethnomusicology Archive. Masters are stored at SRLF.
Language of Material: Collection materials in English.
Archive materials may be accessed in the Archive. As many of our collections are stored off-site at SRLF, we recommend you
contact the Archive in advance to check on the availability of the materials.
Archive materials do not circulate and may not be duplicated or published without written permission from the copyright holders,
collectors, and/or performers. For more information contact the Archive Librarians.
[Identification of item], Cheryl Keyes Collection, 2004.08, Ethnomusicology Archive, University of California, Los Angeles.
Cheryl Keyes deposited her collection into the Ethnomusicology Archive in 2004.
Cheryl L. Keyes is an Associate Professor in the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology. She received her Ph.D. and her M.M.E.
from Indiana University, and her B.M.E. from Xavier University. She is the author of Rap Music and Street Consciousness, published
in 2002 by the University of Illinois Press. She has conducted extensive fieldwork on rap and hip-hop culture in Mali, West
Africa, New York City, Detroit, Los Angeles, and London. Her research has been published in major journals such as Ethnomusicology,
Folklore Forum, Journal of American Folklore, and The World of Music as well as book chapters. In addition to her ongoing
study of hip-hop music and culture, Keyes is conducting research on a piano performance tradition indigenous to East Texas
and Southern Louisiana. Keyes is also a songwriter/composer and a pianist/flutist/singer who has performed and recorded with
jazz clarinetist/educator Alvin Batiste and New Orleans rhythm-and-blues veteran Eddie Bo.
This collection consists of unpublished and published sound recordings collected by Cheryl Keyes as part of her research on
African American music; popular music; women's music; rap/hip-hop music; popular music theory; gender/cultural theory. The
collection includes recordings of interviews, live performances, and rare commercial recordings.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
African Americans--Music.
Hip-hop.
Rap (Music).
Rap musicians.