Musics Lost and Found: Song Collectors and the Life and Death of Folk Tradition

This ground-breaking book is the first in-depth global study of the role played in musical history by song collectors.

This is the first in-depth global study about song collectors, music's unsung heroes. They include the Armenian priest who sacrificed his life to preserve the folk music which the Turks were trying to erase in the 1915 Genocide; the prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp who secretly noted down the songs of doomed Jewish inmates; the British singer who went veiled into Afghan...