California recordings- Armenian music [sound recording]
name: label: recorder
content: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
notes: label: Notes
content: Copy of field recordings made on 78rpm of Armenian folksongs collected in 1939 during an elaborate New Deal WPA project organized and directed by folk music collector Sidney Robertson Cowell for the Northern California Work Projects Administration. Performers include Mesroub Takakjian, Joe Bedrosian, and Vartan Shapazian. Sponsored by the University of California, Berkeley, and cosponsored by the Archive of American Folk Song, this undertaking was one of the earliest ethnographic field projects to document European, Slavic, Middle Eastern, and English- and Spanish-language folk music in one region of the United States. Original 78s archived at LOC, AFS 4240 and AFS 4241. Not released on Folkways.
label: Notes
content: CDR copy
label: Table of contents
content: Dark clouds--Caucasian folk dance--Mountains of Ergoornum--Daki-tezlana--Yankee doodle--Golikozi Atchik
label: Repository Loc.
content: Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, 600 Maryland Ave., S.W., Suite 2001, Washington, D.C. 20024. Call 202-633-7322 for appointment. Fax: 202-633-7019. Email: rinzlerarchives@si.edu
place: label: Place
content: United States
label: Place
content: California
label: Place
content: Armenia
topic: label: Topic
content: Folk songs
label: Topic
content: Armenian Americans
label: Topic
content: Armenia--Songs and music
setName: label: See more items in
content: Moses and Frances Asch Collection, 1939-1986 228428
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Local number
content: FW-ASCH-7RR-2439
objectType: label: Type
content: Musical sound recordings
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only
physicalDescription: label: Physical description
content: 1 sound-tape reel : analog ; 7 in