Robert E. Brown

Description

Credited with coining the phrase “world music,” Robert E. Brown was a musicologist who specialized in the music of Indonesia. He founded the ethnomusicology program at Wesleyan University and later taught at San Diego State University.

Robert Brown bequeathed his sizable collection of books, recordings, artifacts, and instruments to the University of Illinois in 2006.

Location/Access

Music and Performing Arts Library

The commercially published items were cataloged for MPAL’s circulating collection and Special Collections as appropriate.

Sousa Archives and Center for American Music

Brown’s personal papers, those of the Center for World Music, along with photographs, recordings, and musical instruments are held at the Sousa Archive and Center for American Music.

University of Illinois School of Music

The School of Music maintains the Robert E. Brown Center for World Music.