Kevin C. Miller holds a PhD in ethnomusicology and a Masters degree in library and
information studies, both from the University of California, Los Angeles. His research
interests include the music-cultures of the Pacific and the South Asian diaspora, and the
ways in which these music-cultures are represented in libraries, archives, and museums.
His dissertation, “A Community of Sentiment: Indo-Fijian Music and Identity Discourse in
Fiji and its Diaspora,” was completed in 2008. He is currently Librarian for Digital
Curation and Publication at Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA.

Ethnomusicology

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A Community of Sentiment: Indo-Fijian Music and Identity Discourse in Fiji and its Diaspora (2008)

Through an historical and ethnographic account of Indo-Fijian music and related cultural practices, this dissertation...

 

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Forging the New Desi Music: Transnational Identity and Musical Syncretism at a South Asian-American Festival, UC Transnational & Transcolonial Studies Multicampus Research Group (2004)

For three days in late April of 2002, Hollywood, California, was home to Artwallah, a...

 

Libraries and Archives

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The Social Map: Leveraging Historypin for Community Outreach, Society of California Archivists Annual General Meeting (2013)

Kevin Miller, Librarian for Digital Curation and Publication, discusses the steps that Pepperdine University has...

 

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Take Another Look: Introducing the New Face of CONTENTdm, American Library Association, Midwinter Meeting (2011)

At ALA Midwinter 2011, Kevin Miller, Digital Collections Coordinator at Pepperdine University Libraries, discussed the...

 

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Sound Ethics for Data Repositories (2009)

This is my complete portfolio (final project) for the MLIS at the University of California,...