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1) Popular Music, Genre, and Performance in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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This collection contains 12 items

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Perullo, Alex

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This collection of videos represents a broad cross section of popular music found in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. During fieldwork between 1998 and 2003, Alex Perullo worked with artists in different musical genres to learn about their relation to popular music and the contemporary music industry. The many videos recorded during this fieldwork, a…

3) Kansas City Confidential

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This collection contains 22 items

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A film noir from the 1950's starring John Payne.

4) Two Generations of Russian Women Singing

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This collection contains 25 items

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Polina Proutskova

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This collection documents traditional music and dance from Ustiansky rayon, Arkhangelskaya oblast, northern Russia, recorded in July 2006. It features protracted lyric songs with highly complex phrasing and heterophonic voice leading, local figure dances, chastushki, garmon playing. The repertoire of the only remaining traditional folklore…

5) Gospel Music Performance in Scotland 2005-2008

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This collection contains 13 items

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Frances Wilkins

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This collection comprises video footage of gospel music events taking place during fieldwork in North-East Scotland from 2005 to 2008. While the first two field recordings in the collections were filmed by Dr Ian Russell in early 2005, the subsequent recordings were made by Frances Wilkins as part of her PhD research project into sacred singing…