Paul Bowles Moroccan Music Collection 1957-1989 1959, 1960-1962

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Paul Bowles Moroccan Music Collection 1957-1989 1959, 1960-1962

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An ethnographic field collection of sound recordings, photographs, and accompanying documentation of Moroccan folk, popular, and art music. The collection includes recordings Paul Bowles made in 1959 during a four-month field project sponsored by the Library of Congress with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation as well as additional field recordings that he and Christopher Wanklyn made between 1960 and 1962.

2 boxes (1.25 linear feet); 1 map; 2 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm ; 12 in.; 70 sound tape reels (ca. 70 hrs.) : analog, 2 track ; 7 in.

Archive of Folk Culture (U.S.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6355979

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Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999

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American expatriate writer and novelist. From the description of Letter to Bob Sharrard, 1986 December. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 54097458 American expatriate author living in Morocco. From the description of Papers of Paul Bowles [manuscript], 1957-1984 ca. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647821107 American expatriate writer. From the description of Paul Bowles letter to Bob Sharrard [manuscript], 1987 March...

Archive of Folk Song (U.S.), collector, sponsor.

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Archive of Folk Song (U. S.), collector.

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Biography Paul Bowles, an American-born writer, composer, and folk music collector, lived in Morocco beginning in the late 1930s. He has been described as the father of the Beat movement and a prominent figure in the American expatriate community in Tangier, Morocco. A well-known composer, his scores include the incidental music to such plays as Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" and "Sweet Bird of Youth"; he worked with other artists ...

Wanklyn, Christopher, collector.

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