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Longing for the Past the 78 RPM era in Southeast Asia essays and annotations by Jason Gibbs, David Harnish, Terry E. Miller, David Murray, Sooi Beng Tan, and Kit Young.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Atlanta Georgia Dust to Digital 2013.Description: 271 pages illustrations (some colour 26 x 18 cm. + 4 CDsISBN:
  • 1938922573
  • 9781938922572
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 959 GIB
Summary: Survey of the 78 rpm record era in Southeast Asia featuring 4 CDs with 90 tracks of music spanning six decades (1905-1966), including Buddhist chants, Laotian village music, early Gamelan ensembles, Cambodian brass bands, Burmese piano improvisations, Thai xylophone virtuosos, Vietnamese trance music, etc. Accompanied by essays and annotations by leading ethnomusicologists that is richly illustrated with more than 250 vintage photographs, record labels, and sleeves.

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Survey of the 78 rpm record era in Southeast Asia featuring 4 CDs with 90 tracks of music spanning six decades (1905-1966), including Buddhist chants, Laotian village music, early Gamelan ensembles, Cambodian brass bands, Burmese piano improvisations, Thai xylophone virtuosos, Vietnamese trance music, etc. Accompanied by essays and annotations by leading ethnomusicologists that is richly illustrated with more than 250 vintage photographs, record labels, and sleeves.

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