California recordings- Armenian music
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: FW-ASCH-7RR-2439
label: General
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.

CDR copy
name: label: Recorder
content: Cowell, Sidney Robertson.
label: Collection Creator
content: Asch, Moses
label: Collection Creator
content: Distler, Marian, 1919-1964
label: Collection Creator
content: Folkways Records
place: label: Place
content: United States
label: Place
content: California
label: Place
content: Armenia
topic: label: Topic
content: Folk songs -- United States
label: Topic
content: Armenian Americans
label: Topic
content: Armenia -- Songs and music
creator: label: Recorder
content: Cowell, Sidney Robertson.
setName: label: See more items in
content: Moses and Frances Asch Collection
label: See more items in
content: Moses and Frances Asch Collection / Series 9: Audio Recordings / Open Reel Tapes
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound recording (sound-tape reel, analog, 7 in.)
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Identifier
content: CFCH.ASCH, Item FW-ASCH-7RR-2439
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Contents
content: Dark clouds--Caucasian folk dance--Mountains of Ergoornum--Daki-tezlana--Yankee doodle--Golikozi Atchik