Jack Loeffler Audio Collection

Collection

Identifier: AC 599

Staff Only

Scope and Content

Collection contains reel-to-reel tapes holding thousands of hours of recordings of interviews, music and natural habitat, as well as songs of indigenous and traditional peoples. All tapes have been converted to digital format

Dates

Creation: 1976-1998

Language of Materials

English

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Copy Restrictions

Limited duplication of print materials allowed for research purposes. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.

Biographical Information

Jack Loeffler is an aural historian, writer, radio producer and sound collage artist born in Parkersburg, West Virginia in 1936. He studied music at Julius Hartt Conservatory in Hartford, and Westminster College Conservatory in Pennsylvania. Loeffler moved to New Mexico in 1962 and has spent the last 50 years conducting recorded interviews and music among traditional indigenous people, writers, musicians and natural habitats throughout the American West and Mexico. His archives are fully digitized. Loeffler is the founder of the Peregrine Arts Sound Archives (1967) and in 1970, he co-founded the Central Clearing House and Black Mesa Defense Fund, environmental organizations committed to environmental activism and preservation of indigenous cultures within their respective habitats. He has authored Headed Upstream: Interviews with Iconoclasts (1989); La Musica de los Viejitos including 3-CD set, with Katherine Loeffler and Enrique Lamadrid, (1999); Adventures with Ed: A Portrait of Abbey, 2002; Survival Along the Continental Divide (2008); Healing the West: Voices of Culture and Habitat (2008) and Thinking Like a Watersherd (2012). He received the 2008 Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts and was honored by the Historical Society of New Mexico, the Santa Fe Conservation Trust, and the Santa Fe Living Treasures, Inc.