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African Music from the Film - The Naked Prey
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produced by Moses Asch, 1905-1986 and Cornel Wilde, 1912-1989 (Folkways Records, 1966), 42 mins
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produced by Moses Asch, 1905-1986 and Cornel Wilde, 1912-1989 (Folkways Records, 1966), 42 mins
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Amerindian Music of Chile: Aymara, Qaqashqar, Mapuche
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produced by Christos Clair-Vasiliades (Folkways Records, 1975), 44 mins
In Chile today there are three indigenous groups who are direct descendants from pre-Hispanic dwellers of America: the Aymara, the Qawashqar (also called Alakaluf), and the Mapuche (also called Araucanian). The Aymara inhabit the Andean mountains and Altiplano located in Chile’s two most northern provinces, Tar...
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produced by Christos Clair-Vasiliades (Folkways Records, 1975), 44 mins
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Ballads, Wedding Songs and Piyyutim of the Sephardic Jews of Tetuan and Tangier, Morocco
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produced by Henrietta Yurchenco, 1916-2007 (Folkways Records, 1983), 48 mins
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produced by Henrietta Yurchenco, 1916-2007 (Folkways Records, 1983), 48 mins
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Landsknecht's Lament - Es ist ein Schnee gefallen
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(1945 and 1942); performed by Wolfgang Roth, 1910-1988; in Early German Ballads, Vol. 1: 1280-1619 (Folkways Records, 1960), 2 mins

Wolfgang Roth learned these early German songs during the 1920s while participating in a German Youth movement which "championed ideas of brotherhood and peace." These are protest songs from the Peasant Wars of the 16th century that have been preserved orally for centuries and continue to live on through Roth’s...

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(1945 and 1942); performed by Wolfgang Roth, 1910-1988; in Early German Ballads, Vol. 1: 1280-1619 (Folkways Records, 1960), 2 mins
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Jocky to the Fair
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produced by Helen Creighton, 1899-1989; in Folk Music from Nova Scotia (Folkways Records, 1956), 3 mins
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produced by Helen Creighton, 1899-1989; in Folk Music from Nova Scotia (Folkways Records, 1956), 3 mins
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Bahini, Namaskar - Hello, Little Sister
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produced by Stephen Conlon; in The Gaines of Nepal (Folkways Records, 1982), 3 mins
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produced by Stephen Conlon; in The Gaines of Nepal (Folkways Records, 1982), 3 mins
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The Pitcher
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(1935 and 1932); performed by Hillel Ilka Raveh; in Hillel Raveh Sings Songs of the Israel Defense Army - Zva Haganah L'Israel (Folkways Records, 1959), 3 mins

Hillel Raveh joined the underground Haganah movement in his teens and during WWII was a member of the Jewish Brigades, whose "shock troops" developed into the Palmach, or Israel Defence Army. He sings stirring songs of the period, accompanied by Gil Aldema on accordion and his own playing on chalil, a traditiona...

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(1935 and 1932); performed by Hillel Ilka Raveh; in Hillel Raveh Sings Songs of the Israel Defense Army - Zva Haganah L'Israel (Folkways Records, 1959), 3 mins
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Irish and British Songs from the Ottawa Valley
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produced by Edith Fulton Fowke, 1913-1996 (Folkways Records, 1961), 56 mins
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produced by Edith Fulton Fowke, 1913-1996 (Folkways Records, 1961), 56 mins
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