V/A - Art of Field Recording Volume I

Repressed and fully available again. This is volume 1 of Dust-to-Digitals robust Art of Field Recording series assembled by esteemed archivists Art and Margo Rosenbaum. This impressive 4CD set includes ballads, blues, spirituals, work songs and slave songs, religious singing, such as the African-American ring-shout and other traditional folk music from Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan and New York performed with voices and stringed instruments such as banjo and fiddle. Comes housed in a 11x11"x1" color cardboard box containing a 96-page 10"x10" perfect-bound book with over 100 illustrations and photographs, and four CDs with a total of 110 tracks. The diverse talents of both Art and Margo Rosenbaum have allowed them to document music traditions in a way few others could have done. Art is a painter, a muralist, and an illustrator, as well as a collector and performer of traditional American folk music. Margo is a photographer that has captured many of Arts field recording enco