CISM in the Archive is a collaboration between UCSB's Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music (CISM) and the UCSB Library to bring scholars and practitioners to campus for an exploration of the Library's archival collections related to the researcher's interest, who then presents on their findings or current research to UCSB's faculty, students, and the public.
Begun in 2016, five speakers have visited campus for this program. Past speakers are:
- 2022: The Cambodian Vintage Music Archive Project (Rotanak "Oro" Oum, Cambodian Vintage Music Archive)
- 2020 (delayed to 2021): Functional Music, Material Music: The Edison-Carnegie Mood Music Studies (Alexandra Hui, History, Mississippi State University) (archived video)
- 2019: Re-collecting the Global South: Sublime Frequencies’ Experimental Ethnomusicology (Hisham Mayat, Robert Millis, Sublime Frequencies) (archived recording)
- 2018: Decolonizing the Ethnomusicological Archive (Aaron A. Fox, Music, Columbia University) (archived recording)
- 2017: Curating Sound Stories: Art, Ethnography, and Practice in Special Collections at UCSB (Noel Lobley, Music, University of Virginia) (archived recording)
- 2016: From Tango Myth to Tango History: Listening to the Pecourt Collection (Morgan James Luker, Music, Reed College) (archived recording)
