There are at least two on ebay right now. Roger > Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 19:10:09 -0400> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Laura Boulton> To: [log in to unmask]> > Thanks Dr. B. I have never seen mention of a Vol. 2 let alone an> actual set. Sales on Volume 1 were not exactly stellar judging from> what's around of the sets, so perhaps RCA planned, but passed on, a> second volume.> > UD> > > On 8/20/13, Michael Biel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:> > I thought there was a volume 2, but actually P-49 is Indian Music of the> > Southwest, Vol 1. Disc numbers were 90-95, whereas your set, P-10, has> > discs numbered 84-89. Nothing inbetween. And I can't find either in the> > oversized 1943 wartime catalog. Now I'm trying to remember which set I> > have downstairs -- I thought I had a Vol 2.> >> > Mike Biel [log in to unmask]> >> > -------- Original Message --------> > From: David Lewis <[log in to unmask]>> >> >> > I will be playing the Cincinnati Public Library's pristine copy of the> > 1939 RCA Victor set "African Music: Rhythm of the Jungle Vol. 1"> > tomorrow at 7pm at the Main Library, as per the announcement below:> >> > In the 1930s ethnomusicologist Laura C. Boulton accompanied an> > expedition into Africa led by the Field Museum in Chicago. She brought> > with her recording equipment, with which she documented what she> > heard--beautiful, polyrhythmic songs performed by the indigenous> > peoples of (then) French and British West Africa.> >> > Joined by musicologist David Neal Lewis, we'll listen to these and> > other ethnographic recordings, some of them from their original 78rpm> > records.> >> > The program will be held in the Popular Library Lounge, behind the> > fiction books, on the first floor of the South Building (800 Vine).> >> >>>>> > Of course I am aware that Professor Boulton did other field> > expeditions in the 1930s where she made recordings. What I'd like to> > know is if there was ever a Volume 2 to this 78 set? Also, the (poor)> > Folkways LP version of this same release is about a half-step off in> > pitch.> >> > David N. Lewis> > Cincinnati, OH> >
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