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Songs of the Doukhobors: An Introductory Outline.
Ottawa, ON: National Museums of Canada, Folklore Series No. 7, 1970. First edition. Lge. 8vo. Illustrated wrps., 167pp.
Four 7" double-sided flexi-disc records contained in a pocket inside lower wrapper, featuring field recordings of psalms, hymns and folksongs.
The author was a Canadian musicologist and folklorist who set out across Canada in 1962 to study the folk music of immigrants from Europe and Asia, and became the first to transcribe the motifs of Doukhobor psalms into musical notes, several of which are reproduced in the book alongside some of the numerous photographs he took of the Doukhobor communities he visited.
Bookplate of anthropologist Thomas M. Kiefer inside upper wrapper. Top right corner bumped; wrappers rubbed; o/w Very Good. Discs near Mint.
Price:
£20.00
