Alan Lomax - World Library of Folk and Primitive Music, Vol. 7: India

The producers at Rounder Records deserve highest praise for reissuing a body of recordings that document and preserve musical traditions from all over the world. In 1949, Alan Lomax obtained from Goddard Lieberson, the president of Columbia Records, enough financial backing to initiate a global research project involving a number of the most knowledgeable musicologists alive at that time. The end result is now known as the World Library Of Folk And Primitive Music, and Rounder's stated intention is for the series to include more than 150 volumes. Read More