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Artist: Various Artists Label:   Victor Country: USA Catalogue: P-10 Date: 1940 Format: Album Title: African Music: Rhythm in the Jungle, Vol. 1 Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:    Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Malinke Tribe	War Song		Rate
B	Malinke Tribe	Song Of Praise		Rate
C	Bambara Tribe	Songs For Chief		Rate
D	Bambara Tribe	Dance Song		Rate
E	Taureg Tribe	War Song		Rate
F	Taureg Tribe	1. Herding Song; 2. Marriage Song; 3. Lullaby		Rate
G	Bakwiri Tribe	Wrestling Match Song		Rate
H	Bakwiri Tribe	Orphan's Wail		Rate
I	Kru Tribe	Battle Signals		Rate
J	Bini Tribe	Ceremonial Song of Obba's Wives & Obba		Rate
K	Bini Tribe	Secret Society Dance Song		Rate
L	Bini Tribe	Secret Society Drums		Rate

Notes

Recorded by Laura C. Boulton on the Straus West African Expedition of Field Museum of Natural History.
6-record album set consisting of Victor 84, 85, 86, 87, 88 and 89
"Taureg Tribe" on sides E & F (record 86-A and 86-B) should read "Tuareg Tribe".

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fixbutte 30th Oct 2019		According to the booklet, the album is copyrighted 1939, with a rather late dedication by conductor Walter Damrosch dated November 24, 1939, so a 1940 release seemed probable anyway. As the album was only listed in the quarterly record list in The Musical Quarterly Vol. 26, No. 2 (Apr., 1940), p. 275, I have changed the release year from 1939 to 1940. Btw: Victor album P-11, titled Ballads of the American Revoultion and The War of 1812 (with Victor records 26458 to 26462) and included in the same issue of The Musical Quarterly, is listed in John R. Bolig's Victor 25000, 26000, 27000 Series book as released in March 1940 (p. 190, 191).
fixbutte 29th Oct 2019		These belong to the first African recordings that were actually released on record. Although the album came out in 1939, ethnomusicologist Laura Boulton made the recordings apparently in 1934, as the Field Museum-Straus expedition (that traveled 12,900 km from Dakar to Cameroon via Nigeria) took place in that year. I can't upload record labels but small label images can be seen on Discogs. The complete recordings are available for listening on the Internet Archive. The 12-page album booklet was reproduced for a later LP issue on Folkways (FW 8852) and can be downloaded from https://folkways-media.si.edu/liner_notes/folkways/FW08852.pdf

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