{"id":4698,"date":"2025-10-16T18:41:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/?page_id=4698"},"modified":"2025-12-01T21:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T21:02:13","slug":"robert-e-brown","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/about\/collections\/specialcollections\/collections_descriptions\/robert-e-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert E. Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Description<\/h2>\n<p>Credited with coining the phrase \u201cworld music,&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Brown bequeathed his sizable collection of books, recordings, artifacts, and instruments to the University of Illinois in 2006.<\/p>\n<h2>Location\/Access<\/h2>\n<h3>Music and Performing Arts Library<\/h3>\n<p><!--StartFragment --><span class=\"cf0\"><div class=\"ui-lib-list__no-bullets ui-lib-list__zero-left-pad\" > <\/span><!--EndFragment --><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The commercially published items were cataloged for MPAL\u2019s circulating collection and Special Collections as appropriate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--StartFragment --><\/p>\n<p class=\"pf0\"><span class=\"cf0\"><\/div> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment --><\/p>\n<h3>Sousa Archives and Center for American Music<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"cf0\"><div class=\"ui-lib-list__no-bullets ui-lib-list__zero-left-pad\" ><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brown\u2019s personal papers, those of the Center for World Music, along with photographs, recordings, and musical instruments are held at the <a href=\"https:\/\/archon.library.illinois.edu\/archives\/index.php?p=collections\/controlcard&amp;id=5711&amp;q=robert+brown\">Sousa Archive and Center for American Music<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"pf0\"><span class=\"cf0\"><\/div> <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>University of Illinois School of Music<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"cf0\"><div class=\"ui-lib-list__no-bullets ui-lib-list__zero-left-pad\" ><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The School of Music maintains the <a href=\"https:\/\/music.illinois.edu\/engagement\/center-for-world-music\/\">Robert E. Brown Center for World Music<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--StartFragment --><\/p>\n<p class=\"pf0\"><span class=\"cf0\"><\/div> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description Credited with coining the phrase \u201cworld music,&#8221; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":889,"featured_media":0,"parent":151,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4698","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4698"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5351,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4698\/revisions\/5351"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}