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Letter to Alan Lomax Regarding the Voyager Golden Record

Letter to Alan Lomax Regarding the Voyager Golden Record

Carl Sagan thanks Alan Lomax for agreeing to contribute his expertise in ethnomusicology to the help make final musical selections for the Voyager Golden Record. Voyager Golden Records are phonograph records wh... More

Henrietta Yurchenco (right) and an unidentified woman, Johns Island, South Carolina

Henrietta Yurchenco (right) and an unidentified woman, Johns Island, S...

Ethnomusicologist Henrietta Yurchenco speaks with an African American woman in front of a Methodist church that served as a focus for some of her field research on Johns Island, South Carolina, in 1970-71. The ... More

Letter to Alan Lomax Regarding the Voyager Golden Record

Letter to Alan Lomax Regarding the Voyager Golden Record

Carl Sagan thanks Alan Lomax for agreeing to contribute his expertise in ethnomusicology to the help make final musical selections for the Voyager Golden Record. Voyager Golden Records are phonograph records wh... More

Frances Densmore recording Mountain Chief2

Frances Densmore recording Mountain Chief2

Part of a series of pictures depicting Frances Densmore at the Smithsonian Institution in 1916 during a recording session with Blackfoot chief Mountain Chief for the Bureau of American Ethnology. Library of ... More

Marius Barbeau records folk songs

Marius Barbeau records folk songs

Français : Marius Barbeau transcrivant, dans son bureau d'Ottawa, la mélodie d'une chanson traditionnelle qu'il a enregistrée sur le terrain sur cylindre phonographique. Plus de 5000 chansons ont ainsi été enr... More