Folkways Records
Moses Asch and His Encyclopedia of Sound| By: | Tony Olmsted |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780415937092 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781135353551 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2003 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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In 1949, immigrant recording engineer Moses Asch embarked on a lifelong project: documenting the world of sound produced by mankind, via a small record label called Folkways Records. By the time of his death in 1986, he had amassed an archive of over 2,200 LPs and thousands of hours of tapes; so valuable was this collection that it was purchased by the Smithsonian Institute. FolkwaysRecords is an account of how he built this business, working against all odds, to create a landmark in the history of American music.