Folk Music Recordings

Folk Music Recordings Folk songs of the world were studied primarily as texts prior to 1890. The extra-musical approach began to change when ethnologist Jesse Walter Fewkes took an Edison Perfected (cylinder) Phonograph to Maine in 1890 and recorded songs of the Passamaquoddy Indians. Later in the same year Fewkes recorded music of the Zuni and Pueblo Indians of New Mexico. Ethnomusicologists and folklorists began recording tribal groups on cylinder. Many of those cylinder recordings have been…