Details

Field of Interest

World Music

Description

This Endangered Music Project release is a collection of 1938-vintage field recordings culled from the library of the Discoteca Pública Municipal (Municipal Public Recordings Collection) in São Paulo, Brazil. The Discoteca dispatched a team to six states in northern and northeastern Brazil to document regional folklore, ritual music, and dance. The music they collected, much of which accompanied ritual, social, and dramatic dance, is primarily vocal, featuring various types of Brazilian percussion and strings. Tracks include liner notes written by ethnomusicologist Morton Marks. The Discoteca Collection: Missão de Pedquisas Folclóricas was issued in 1997 as part of the Endangered Music Project, a series curated by Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart featuring material from the Library of Congress' American Folklife Center (now part of the Mickey Hart Collection made available by Smithsonian Folkways).

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Content Type

Music recording

Duration

53 mins

Format

Audio

Sub Genre

Folk

Label

Mickey Hart Collection

Page Count

23

Release Date

1997

Subject

World Music, Music & Performing Arts, Central Asia, Ásia Central, Asia Central

Keywords and Translated Subjects

Ásia Central, Asia Central