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class="sr-only">Home</span></a></li><li><a href="/people">People</a></li><li><a href="/people/faculty">Faculty</a></li></ul> <a id="main-content"></a> <h1 id="page-title" class="title">Laurel Sercombe</h1> <article id="node-1393" class="node node-profile view-mode-full"> <div class="field field-name-field-jobtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden field-wrapper"><div class="field-items" class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" class="field-item even">Affiliate Assistant Professor, Ethnomusicology</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-profile-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden field-wrapper"><div class="field-items" class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" class="field-item even"><img src="https://music.washington.edu/sites/music/files/styles/portrait/public/photos/sercombe_web.jpg?itok=AD8ewQDe&c=fb662c2c54defd4a083b8d9163d539af" alt="" /></div></div></div><div id="node-profile-full-group-shaded" class="group-contact 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class="field-item even" class="field-item even"><a href="/areas/ethnomusicology">Ethnomusicology</a></div></div></div></div><div><h3><span>Biography</span></h3><div class="field field-name-field-education field-type-text field-label-hidden field-wrapper"><div class="field-items" class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" class="field-item even">Ph.D., Ethnomusicology, University of Washington</div><div class="field-item odd" class="field-item even odd">M.L.S., University of Washington</div><div class="field-item even" class="field-item even odd even">B.A., Music, Humboldt State University</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-biography field-type-text field-label-hidden field-wrapper"><div class="field-items" class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" class="field-item even"><p><span>Laurel Sercombe has been the Archivist for the Ethnomusicology Program at the University of Washington since 1982. She has co-produced a series of music recordings with Northwest Folklife, lectured for classes in Ethnomusicology, Library and Information Science, and American Indian Studies, and designed and taught a course on sound archiving. In 1998 she received a pre-doctoral Smithsonian Research Fellowship and in 2001 received her Ph.D. with the dissertation </span><em>And Then It Rained: Power and Song in Western Washington Coast Salish Myth Narratives</em><span>. She is a member of the Music Library Association, the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, and the Society for Ethnomusicology, for which she served as Current Discographer 1992–2000 and Treasurer 2000–2004. She serves on the boards of Jack Straw Productions and Northwest Heritage Resources. In 2013 she organized and hosted “Sounds of the World,” a series of six programs for </span><span class="caps">UWTV</span><span> featuring film footage from the Robert Garfias Collection in the Ethnomusicology Archives.</span></p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-video field-type-file field-label-above field-wrapper"> <h3>Featured Work</h3> <ul class="medium-block-grid-3"> <li class="field-item even" class="field-item even"> <a class="colorbox-load" href="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hqfF7n9ZfAA?fs=1&width=640&height=480&hl=en_US1&iframe=true&autoplay=1"> <img src="https://music.washington.edu/sites/music/files/styles/video_teaser/public/media-youtube/hqfF7n9ZfAA.jpg?itok=rg-6utZ8" alt=" YouTube link to UW Sounds of the World: Spain" /><br><span class="media-caption">UW Sounds of the World: Spain</span> </a> </li> </ul> </div> </div><div class="field-group-accordion-wrapper effect-bounceslide"><h3 class="field-group-format-toggler accordion-item"><a href="#">Research</a></h3> <div class="field-group-format-wrapper "><div class="view view-research view-id-research view-display-id-entity_view_1 view-dom-id-5e0bde0a9038196ae1edaac4814ce2bb"> <div class="view-header"> <h3>Selected Research</h3> </div> <div class="view-content"> <div class="item-list"> <ul> <li class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"> <span class="views-field views-field-field-citation"> <span class="field-content"><a href="https://music.washington.edu/research/publications/radio-afghanistan-archive-project-building-capacity-averting-repatriation">Lorraine Sakata, Laurel Sercombe, and John Vallier. “Radio Afghanistan Archive Project: Building Capacity, Averting Repatriation.” In Gunderson, F., Lancefield, R., & Woods, B. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Musical Repatriation. Oxford University Press.</a></span> </span></li> </ul></div> </div> </div> </div><h3 class="field-group-format-toggler accordion-item"><a href="#">Courses Taught</a></h3> <div class="field-group-format-wrapper "><div class="view view-courses view-id-courses view-display-id-entity_view_1 courselist view-dom-id-07c4a8e546682cb8a43ff2f09f57eadb"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="item-list"> <h3>Winter 2016</h3> <ul> <li class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"> <span class="views-field views-field-field-custom-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/WIN2016/music.html#music445" target="_blank">Music (MUSIC) 445 A: Selected Topics In Ethnomusicology</a></span> </span> <span class="views-field views-field-field-course-website"> <span class="field-content">(<a href="https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1024737/">Course Website</a>)</span> </span></li> </ul></div> </div> </div> </div><h3 class="field-group-format-toggler accordion-item"><a href="#">News & Press</a></h3> <div class="field-group-format-wrapper "><div class="view view-news view-id-news view-display-id-entity_view_1 view-dom-id-4835547654a045a265eeeed40212d07c"> <div class="view-header"> <h3>Related News</h3> </div> <div class="view-content"> <div class="item-list"> <ul> <li class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"> <span class="views-field views-field-field-formatted-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="https://music.washington.edu/news/2017/05/08/archival-transitions-under-way">Archival Transitions Under Way</a></span> </span> - <span class="views-field views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">May 8, 2017</span> </span></li> </ul></div> </div> </div> </div></div> </article> <section class="block block-addtoany block-addtoany-addtoany-button"> <span class="a2a_kit a2a_target addtoany_list" id="da2a_1"> <a class="a2a_dd addtoany_share_save" href="https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=https%3A%2F%2Fmusic.washington.edu%2Fevents%2F2017-2018-concert-season&title=2017-2018%20Concert%20Season"> Share</a> </span> <script type="text/javascript"> <![CDATA[//><!]]> </script> </section> </div>  </main>   <section class="l-footer-top" role="complementary" aria-label="Social media links"> <a id="giving-link-footer" class="button support-button" href="/support-us"><span class="fa fa-heart-o fa-2x"> </span>Support Music</a> <div class="row"> <section class="block block-block block-block-5"> <div class="columns large-8 small-centered large-uncentered"> <ul class="stay-connected links inline"> <li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/UWMusic"> <span class="fa-container"><span class="fa fa-facebook fa-2x"> </span></span><span class="hidden-for-small-only">Facebook</span></a></li> <li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/uw_music/"> <span class="fa-container"><span class="fa fa-instagram fa-2x"> </span></span><span class="hidden-for-small-only">Instagram</span></a></li> <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/school/16234074"><span class="fa-container"><span class="fa fa-linkedin fa-2x"> </span></span><span class="hidden-for-small-only">LinkedIn</span></a></li> <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/udubmusic"><span class="fa-container"><span class="fa fa-youtube-play fa-2x"> </span></span><span class="hidden-for-small-only">YouTube</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </section> </div> </section>   <footer class="l-footer" role="contentinfo" aria-label="Contact and copyright"> <div class="row"> <div class="footer columns"> <section class="block block-block block-block-2"> <div class="row"> <div class="medium-3 columns"> <p>School of Music<br />University of Washington<br />Music Building<br />Box 353450<br />Seattle, WA 98195</p> </div> <div class="medium-3 columns"> <p>Phone: (206) 543-1201<br /><a href="mailto:musinfo@uw.edu">musinfo@uw.edu</a></p> </div> <div class="medium-3 columns hide-for-print"> <p><a href="http://www.washington.edu/online/privacy">Privacy<br /></a><a href="http://www.washington.edu/online/terms">Terms<br /></a><a href="/sitemap">Site Map</a><br /><a href="/alumni-update">Alumni Update</a><br /><a href="/contact">Contact Us</a></p> </div> <div class="medium-3 columns end"> <p><i>The University of Washington acknowledges the Coast Salish peoples of this land, the land which touches the shared waters of all tribes and bands within the Suquamish, Tulalip and Muckleshoot nations.</i></p> </div> </div> </section> </div> <div class="copyright columns"> © 2025 <a href="http://uw.edu">University of Washington</a>. 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