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Folkways Records: Moses Asch and His Encyclopedia of Sound

Folkways Records: Moses Asch and His Encyclopedia of Sound

Olmsted, Tony

Hardcover

Country & FolkMusic Recording & ReproductionMusic Reference

ISBN10: 0415937086
ISBN13: 9780415937085
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 25 2003
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.28
Language: English

In 1949, immigrant recording engineer Moses Asch embarked on a lifelong project: documenting the world of sound produced by mankind, via a small record label called Folkways Records. By the time of his death in 1986, he had amassed an archive of over 2,200 LPs and thousands of hours of tapes; so valuable was this collection that it was purchased by the Smithsonian Institute. FolkwaysRecords is an account of how he built this business, working against all odds, to create a landmark in the history of American music.

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