Item Detail
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Stone, Ruth M.
Gillis, Frank J. -
African music and oral data : a catalog of field recordings, 1902-1975
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Book
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Bloomington, Ind.
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c1976
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Indiana University Press
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xiv, 412 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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0253302625; 9780253302625
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Music--Oral tradition--Africa--Discography.
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Sound Recordings; Oral Traditions; Africa
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ML 156.4 .P7 S8
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Gillis, Frank J., and Ruth M. Stone. African Music and Oral Data: A Catalog of Field Recordings, 1902-1975. With a foreword by Alan P. Merriam. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1976.
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A result of the African Field Recordings Survey project, which collected and compiled this catalog. The catalog lists recordings of African music and oral data held throughout the world and helps researchers identify and locate these primary sources.
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A concise summary of collections of phono recordings of African music and oral data held by institutions and individuals throughout the world. Data was supplied for the catalog almost entirely through questionnaires. Recordings were made from as early as 1902 to the time of publication.
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The catalog is subdivided into the following sections, with the catalog being the longest and most significant: Preface; Catalog of Collectors and Repositories; Index to Countries; Index to Culture Groups; Cross References to Culture Groups; and Index to Subjects. The catalog lists collector or repository alphabetically and each entry includes all available information in the following fields: collector or repository, address, country, town, culture group, size of collection, year of recording, quality, repository, accession or collection number, ATL number, access (degree of restriction), and subjects. For each index, a similar system of fields is determined in the preface, although much shorter and simpler.
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Organization seems consistent but is still somewhat difficult to understand and use.
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Coplan, David B. African Music 6, no. 1 (1980): 131-32.
Rouget, Gilbert. Fontes artis musicae 28 (July-September 1981): 254-55. -
BYU Mus Ref
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4371