Tony Russell - Rural Rhythm
In this groundbreaking book, music historian Tony Russell turns the spotlight on 78 original 78rpm discs of songs and tunes from the 1920s and 1930s.
Publisher: Oxford University Press / ISBN: 9780190091187
Author: Tony Russell
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Country Blues, Early 20th Century, Folk, History, Traditional, USA.
Corinna Campbell - The Cultural Work: Maroon Performance in Paramaribo, Suriname
How do people in an intensely multicultural city live alongside one another while maintaining clear boundaries? This question is at the core of The Cultural Wor..(read more)
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press / ISBN: 9780819579553
Author: Corinna Campbell
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Black Culture, Surinam, Traditional.
Various Artists - Malawi Grooves 1950, ’57, ’58
This album with grooves by Cewa, Mang’anja, Tumbuka, and Tonga musicians represents only some of Malawi’s many rich musical cultures. Eight of the fifteen t..(read more)
Label: SWP Records / SWP051
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: African, Field Recordings, Traditional, Vinyl.
Various Artists - African Gems
“This is some of the best traditional African music ever recorded. The music is the star – of course – then come the wonderful musicians who performed..(read more)
Label: SWP Records / SWP044
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: African, Traditional, Vinyl.
Various Artists - The Kankobela of the Batonga
The kankobela is the thumb-piano of the Batonga people who live either side of Lake Kariba in Zambia and Zimbabwe. Amazing thing is: the ‘distortion’ you he..(read more)
Label: SWP Records / SWP050
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: African, Traditional, Vinyl.
De Nazaten (Play Robby Alberga) - Als De Haan Tanden Krijgt…
Nine man strong, this lovely brass & percussion band has been around for more than 20 years. The dutch/surinamese group play a mix of styles, “streetw..(read more)
Label: Strotbrock / 1801
Artist: De Nazaten (Play Robby Alberga)
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Brass, Jazz, Surinam, Traditional.
Various Artists - Modern Mayan – The Indian Music Of Chiapas, Mexico
Reissue of 1975 album originally on Folkways, recordings by Richard Alderson. He wrote: “The music of the indigenous people of the southern Mexican state ..(read more)
Label: Moi Je Connais / Mississippi / MJCR024 / MRP-068
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Folk, Mexico, Traditional, Vinyl.
Henry Glassie & Clifford R. Murphy - Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line
A groundbreaking artist and one of the all-time greatest performers of authentic, Appalachian music. 1960s recordings and modern-day field recordings
Publisher: Dust to Digital / DTD-40
Categories: Books & Magazines, Records & Tapes.
Tags: '60s, Country Blues, Folk, Traditional, USA.
Lahcen Akil and the Chaabi Brothers - Untitled
Lotar player Lahcen Akil (the lotar is a type of lute from the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco) was born in 1969 in the village of Tamlalte in the High Atlas, a..(read more)
Label: Et Mon Cul C'est Du Tofu? / TOFU 90
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Morocco, Traditional, Vinyl, World Music.
