The Marie-Thérèse, Baroness Ullens de Schooten Collections at HarvardUniversity of original ethnographic sound recordings, radio transmissions, and filmsoundtracks, ca. 1951-1972.

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The Marie-Thérèse, Baroness Ullens de Schooten Collections at HarvardUniversity of original ethnographic sound recordings, radio transmissions, and filmsoundtracks, ca. 1951-1972.

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The sound recordings in this collection were made by Marie-Thérèse,Baroness Ullens de Schooten in Iran between 1951 and 1972. These are primarily fieldrecordings of music, ceremonies, and scenes from daily life of some of the majornomadic and semi-nomadic tribes, including the Qashqā'ī and the Bakhtiari peoples ofthe west and the south, as well as the Baluchi, Kurds and Turkmen, and Sufi dervishes.The collection also contains recordings of radio transmissions from Radio Iran inTehran, Shīrāz, and Isfahān; music recorded at the Ethnography Museum in Tehran;and interviews with musicians, officials, and friends, including André Godard, and hiswife Yedda Godard.

Sound recordings (111 reels, 19 sound cassettes)

Archive of World Music, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard College Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6386016

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