The photographs of Charles Duvelle
Subtitle: Disques Ocora and Collection Prophet
By: Charles Duvelle and Hisham Mayet
Contributors: Mayet, Hisham, interviewer, editor
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Sublime Frequencies
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Seattle, WA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780996678513
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Interviews; Ethnomusicologists; Musicians; Pictorial works; Folk music
Description: "Charles Duvelle's work is indisputably one of the most important contributions to the human understanding of the rich biodiversity of our planet's music and language. This fine-art photography book comprises an exhaustive collection of Charles Duvelle's field photography from 1959 to 1978, demonstrating that this master musicologist had an equally unerring eye for photography. It also contains an exhaustive interview by Hisham Mayet, detailing the history of field recording. Includes two full-length CDs of archival recordings, some of which have never been published"--Publisher's description.
Notes: Produced and edited by Hisham Mayet.

Includes illustrated Ocora/Charles Duvelle discography, 1959-1974 (pages 280-291).

English and French in parallel columns; recordings in various indigenous languages.
Table of contents: title: [Contents of accompanying disc one].; title: Prophet kaleidoscope.; title: Sakara -- (Benin); title: Court orchestra of Naba Tigre -- (Burkina Faso); title: Wame igini kamu -- (Papua New Guinea); title: Duet of Sanzas -- (Bissa); title: Samy faly -- (Madagascar); title: Pili pe -- (Papua New Guinea); title: Medzang me biang -- (Gabon); title: Malinke balafons -- (Guinea); title: Laments -- (Papua New Guinea); title: Cengumé -- (Benin); title: Bopal solo -- (Burkina Faso); title: Balante balafon -- (Guinea Bissau); title: Mbalé-- (Centrafrican Republic).; title: [Contents of accompanying disc two].; title: Asian blows.; title: Sodina -- (by Sohan Lal -- (India)); title: Khene lao -- (by Kheo Oudon -- (Laos)); title: Dhrupad-- (by Madurai Ramaswami Gutam-- (India)).