Robert Herman Papers

Collection — Box: BSQAP0169

Identifier: BAQ064

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

BSQAP 0169

Research work done by Robert Herman about the music heritage of the Basque immigrants in U.S.

Dates

circa 1977

Restrictions

Collection is open for research. Materials must be used on-site.

Biographical / Historical

Robert Herman is a musicologist who got his Ph.D. at the School of Music of the North Texas State University in 1973, with a translation and comment on the Dialogo della musica antica e della moderna by Vincenzo Galilei.

Soon after that, he was accepted into the Basque Studies Program of the University of Nevada, where he spent two years gathering and studying Basque music made in the United States. He even took part in the November 1976 North American Basque Organization (NABO) meeting, where he asked the support of NABO in his effort to preserve the heritage of Basque music in the United States, by supplying him with tapes of older generation Basque bertsolaris and also conversations concerning the music.

Sources:

NORTH AMERICAN BASQUE ORGANIZATION, INC., Minutes – Meeting – November 6, 1976 [online]: https://nabasque.eus/nabo/minutes/NABO_minutes_1976.pdf

DOUGLASS, W. A., El programa de estudios vascos de la Universidad de Nevada, Reno: historia, principales actividades y proyectos [online]: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/11496771.pdf

HEWITT, H., Supplement to Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology, [online]: https://url2.cl/XkmlS