From: Sing Out! | Date: June 22, 2002 | COPYRIGHT 2002 Sing Out Corporation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Rounder 1755

This new addition to Rounder's Alan Lomax Collection of Folk and Primitive Music was recorded by ethnomusicologist Alain Denielou between 1950 and 1958. The recordings were, in the most part, made in the environs of Benares (now Varanasi) and Madras (now Chenai), India. The CD contains samples of four categories of Indian folk music: archaic survivals; religious and devotional tracks; instrumental classical, light classical and folk; and drama. The listener ...