Dokumentasjonssenteret for musikk i Akershus har gått til anskaffelse av en flott samling av utgivelser fra selskapet Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Det er folkemusikk fra Central Asia, Indonesia, Latin-Amerika og Nord-Amerika samt Europa. Disse utgivelsene kan du låne både for å lytte og til læringsformål i og med at de fleste av utgivelsene har flotte hefter som forteller noe om musikerne, musikken, instrumenter, regionen og historie, og en del av utgivelsene har også DVD.
SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS RECORDINGS
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings er en ideell organisasjon og plateselskapet til The Smithsonian Institution. De har som formål å støtte kulturelt mangfold og en bedre forståelse mellom folk gjennom dokumentasjon, bevaring og spredning av lyd/musikk.
De mener at musikk og kulturelt mangfold bidrar til vitalitet og livskvalitet til alle deler av verden. Gjennom spredning av audio-opptak og læremateriell mener de at folks engasjement tilknyttet deres kulturarv blir sterkere, og det vil forbedre eller styrke deres bevissthet og verdsettelse av kulturarven til andre.
Smithsonian Folkways skriver at deres misjon er arven etter Moses Asch, som grunnla Folkways Records i 1948 for å dokumentere folks musikk, tale, instruksjon og lyder verden rundt.
Smithsonian tilegnet seg Folkways fra Asch eiendommen (estate) i 1987, og Smithsonian Folkways Recordings har videreført Folkways forpliktelsen til kulturelt mangfold, utdannelse, bedre forståelse, og et levende engasjement for, som de sier «The world of sound».
Smithsonian Folkways har utvidet Asch sitt selskap eller eiendom med å knyttew til seg flere plateselskaper innenfor selskapet og utgir mer enn 300 nye innspillinger som dokumenterer og feirer musikken som skapes rundt oss over hele verden.
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Mer om Smithsonian Folkways Recordings:
“Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution, the national museum of the United States. We are dedicated to supporting cultural diversity and increased understanding among peoples through the documentation, preservation, and dissemination of sound. We believe that musical and cultural diversity contributes to the vitality and quality of life throughout the world. Through the dissemination of audio recordings and educational materials we seek to strengthen people’s engagement with their owncultural heritage and to enhance their awareness and appreciation of the cultural heritage of others. Smithsonian Folkways is part of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.
Our mission is the legacy of Moses Asch, who founded Folkways Records in 1948 todocument «people’s music,» spoken word, instruction, and sounds from around the world. The Smithsonian acquired Folkways from the Asch estate in 1987, and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings has continued the Folkways commitment to cultural diversity, education, increased understanding, and lively engagement with the world of sound.
Our History
Folkways Records & Service Co. was incorporated in 1948 in New York City by Moses Asch (1905-1986) and Marian Distler (1919-1964). Under Asch’s enthusiastic and dedicated direction, Folkways sought to record and document the entire world of sound. Between 1948 and Asch’s death, Folkways’ tiny staff released 2,168 albums. Topics included traditional, ethnic, and contemporary music from around the world; poetry, spoken word, and instructional recordings in numerous languages; and documentary recordings of individuals, communities, current events, and natural sounds.
As one of the first record companies to offer albums of «world music,» and as an early exponent of the singers and songwriters who formed the core of the American folk music revival (including such giants as Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Lead Belly), Asch’s Folkways grew to become one of the most influential record companies in the world.
Following Asch’s death, in 1987 the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage in Washington D.C. acquired Folkways Recordings and the label’s business papers and files to ensure that the sounds and genius of its artists wouldcontinue to be available to future generations.
As a condition of the acquisition, the Smithsonian agreed that virtually all of the firm’s 2,168 titles would remain «in print» forever—a condition that Smithsonian Folkways continues to honor through its custom order service. Whether it sells 8,000 copies each year or only one copy every five years, every Folkways title remains available for purchase.
In the years since 1987, Smithsonian Folkways has continued to expand on Asch’s legacy, adding several other record labels to the collections and releasing over 375 new recordings that document and celebrate the sounds of the world around us. Currently, the collection consists of more than 3,000 albums and 43,000 tracks along with videos, playlists, podcasts, lesson plans for teachers, and Smithsonian Folkways Magazine.
A Worldwide Educational Online Download Network
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings launched its Smithsonian Global Sound®educational initiative in 2005. This unique online resource delivers easy access to tens of thousands of audio recordings and hundreds of video features from the U.S. national museum’s Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections (which includes Smithsonian Folkways) and content from partner archives including the International Library of African Music at Willard Rhodes University (South Africa), the Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology of the American Institute for Indian Studies (India), the Aga Khan Music Initiative for Central Asia of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (Central Asia) and others still to come.
Listening and viewing are enhanced by extensive documentation, indexing and search capabilities, including in-depth features in the onlineSmithsonian Folkways Magazine and educational resources in the Tools for Teaching section of www.folkways.si.edu.
Today, the website www.folkways.si.edu and all of Smithsonian Global Sound’s features have been strengthened and renewed within a single website(www.folkways.si.edu). Smithsonian Folkways offers downloads and streaming video, tools for teaching, in-depth features, and institutional subscriptions (viaAlexander Street Press) to Music Online/Smithsonian Global Sound® for Libraries. The initiative provides unparalleled accessibility to less-often heard voices of people from all over the world. Smithsonian Folkways will continue to partner with other audio archives worldwide to increase global, digital access.
The revenue received from you for individual downloads and institutional subscriptions supports the creation of new educational content and is shared with archival partners, who in turn pass on a portion of those revenues for the benefit of artists and their communities. The development of this initiative was made possible by generous support from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation and folkwaysAlive! at the University of Alberta.”