Kenneth Gourlay Archive (Goldsmiths Archives University of London)

Kenneth Gourlay Archive is collection of a variety of 20th century and contemporary creative and performing arts, humanities and social sciences. It is based at the Goldsmiths University of London in the U.K. It consists of field recordings, papers, drafts of articles, notebooks and some published articles from British ethnomusicologist Kenneth A. Gourlay's research on the musical cultures of the Karamojong of Uganda, Nigeria and in Papua New Guinea.

Kenneth began his research on these African countries in 1965 until 1980. He made a number of field recordings of Karimojong ox-songs during that period. In Papua New Guinea, he worked on teaching methods fusing traditional music. He researched the distribution of sound-producing instruments and cultural concepts surrounding the practice of traditional music. Materials can be viewed in the Special Collections reading room in the library where they are made available for research.

In Nigeria, he particularly studied the socio-cultural importance of an Ataka "musical pot" (kimkim), among the Kagoro, Morwa, Kagoma and Irigwe. He died in 1995.

The archive is open to members of the public from Monday to Friday at 10h00am until 18h00pm (Wednesdays from 10h00am until 19h00pm).