From ResearchBuzz: Now available: a very old collection of musical
recordings from India
<http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/these-rare-indian-records-survived-over-a-century-and-are-now-online/>.
“Over the crackle of an old record, you can hear a woman singing in
Urdu. Though listening to her is as easy as clicking a few buttons on
the British Library website, her voice comes to you across vast
distances in space and time. Sometime in the early 20th century,
engineers recorded the voice of a woman called Malkajan for the German
company Odeon, which pressed shellac discs for Indian record collectors
in the 1910s and 30s. Now her work is part of a series of recordings
called The Odeon Collection, digitized by Mumbai record collector Suresh
Chandvankar with help from a grant from the British Library.”
--
Paul T. Jackson
Trescott Research
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