Worlds of Sound The Story of Smithsonian Folkways

Name: Worlds of Sound The Story of Smithsonian Folkways
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ISBN: 9780061563553

ISBN-10: 0061563552

ISBN-13: 9780061563553

Edition: 2008

Authors: Richard Carlin

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A man, a microphone, and a dreamWhen he opened his tiny recording studio in New York in 1940, Moses Asch had a larger-than-life dream: To document and record all the sounds of his time. He created Folkways Records to achieve his goal, not just a record label but a statement that all sounds are equal and every voice deserves to be heard. The Folkways catalog grew to include a myriad of voices, from world- and roots-music to political speeches; the voices of contemporary poets and steam engines; folk singers Lead Belly and Woody Guthrie and jazz pianists Mary Lou Williams and James P. Johnson; Haitian vodoun singers and Javanese court musicians; deep-sea sounds and sounds from the outer ring…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/14/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.01" tall
Weight: 2.640
Language: English