ABSTRACT
Robert Garfias's, the author, family was not particularly musical, although there was enough music around, mostly radio and records, to make for many musical associations during those early years. His study of the classical guitar had led a bit beyond that into other kinds of Latin music. During the late 1940s radio as a source of listenable music was very limited. Most of what was played was pop music with perhaps one classical music station that played only short selections, never a complete symphony and rarely chamber music. There were no jazz stations, but once in a great while one of the African-American stations that specialized in religious music or Black popular music might play a jazz record. He was intensely interested in what each of the ethnomusicology students at UCLA was studying. During the 1970s, Garfias continued to make films of all the visiting artists on the faculty during the period of their residence.
