Ethnic and Vernacular Music, 1898-1960

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Ethnic and Vernacular Music, 1898-1960 A Resource and Guide to Recordings

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By Paul Vernon

Foreword by Benno Haupl

ISBN: 0-313-29553-0

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-29553-9

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368 pages, illustrations,

Greenwood Press

Publication: 12/30/1995

List Price: $106.95 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 X 9 1/4

Subjects:

The Arts » Ethnomusicology

Series Title: Discographies

Series Number: 62

Awards:

Association for Recorded Sound Collections, Award for Excellence in the Field of Recorded Folk or Ethnic Music, 1996

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Vernon's study is intended to promote thought and discussion of recorded ethnic music and to assist specalists working on individual discographical projects. It also provides needed information about obscure recording labels, some of which have been defunct for decades.
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Description: Detailed information on almost all ethnic and vernacular recordings from many countries on 78rpm is provided in this seminal work. The current state of discographical research in this wide and varied field is such that a research tool of this nature is badly needed. Jesse Walter Fewkes and Mary Hemenway recorded Native American music as early as 1890; Bela Bartok recorded rural music in the Balkans; Erich von Hornbostel, the grand old man of ethnomusicology in Europe, recorded in Southeast Asia. More than just a discography, this work demonstrates that cultures around the world and over time have more similarities than differences. A necessity for scholars, students, archivists, and individual record collectors and dealers. The goals of this volume are many and varied: to promote thought and discussion toward a concise definition of recorded ethnic music; to assist specialists working on individual discographical projects; to introduce users to the interconnectedness of cultures through regional music; to gather heretofore disparate pieces of information under one cover in a way that for the first time allows specialists to accurately identify all manner of recordings in many languages. The four sections of the volume work together for easy usage through cross referencing. The philosophy behind the volume was expressed by Rodney Gallop when he remarked that music, for him, was often the key to the understanding of other cultures.

Table of Contents:

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Preface
Countries, Territories and Linguistic Groups Listed in Chapter One
Countries, Regions and Ethnic Groups: A-Z
Record Companies (Brunswick, Columbia, Decca, Edison Bell, The Gramophone Company, Odeon, Parlophone, Pathe, Polydor, Telefunken, Zonophone)
Reissues on Compact Disc, Cassette and Vinyl
Lexicon
The Gramophone Company Engineers and Their Overseas Recording Sessions
Commercial Recordings in African Languages
Appendix 1: National Anthems
Appendix 2: Resource List
Bibliography

LC Card Number: 95-35430

LCC Class: ML156

Dewey Class: 016


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