Description
Item Description:Compact disc.
Contains copies of early field recordings on wax cylinders of folk musik from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
The demonstration collection was the earliest anthology of recordings of traditional music ever issued and as such is a historical monument in the development of the discipline of ethnomusicology.
"A joint publication of the Ethnomusicological Division (formerly the Phonogramm-Archiv) of the Museum of Ethnology, Berlin, Germany, and the Archives of Folk and Primitive Music, Research Center in Anthropology, Folklore, and Linguistics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA"--Notes.
Originally issued on analog discs as: Folkways FE 4175.
Historical, biographical and program notes by Kurt Reinhard and George List in English and German (40 pages ; 28 cm.) inserted in container.
Sound recording.
Physical Description:2 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + program notes