Recordings from Prisoner-of-War Camps, World War I: Georgian - Avar - Jewish - Ossetian - Svanetian Recordings

English summary: As a result of the outbreak of World War I, 'classical' phonographic field research came to be greatly limited. Rudolf Poch, Professor of Anthropology and Ethnography at the University of Vienna, however, realised that the war situation would prove 'an unprecedented opportunity for academic research'. Together with musicologist Robert Lach he exploited this opportunity in order to make extensive language and music recordings of 'almost all peoples of European and Asian Russ...