嬉しい再入荷! Dust to Digitalレーベルの名を知らしめた作品とも言えるアフリカの1909年から60年代にかけてレコーディングされた78s音源を、SPとは思えないような良音質で収めた4枚組CD + 112p ブックレットというアフリカ音楽ファン、ポピュラー音楽ファン歓喜のボックス。装丁もすばらしい。
It is truly astonishing to consider the tremendous variety of music that was pressed to shellac discs on the continent of Africa. Popular songs, topical songs, work songs, comic songs, songs of worship, ritual, dance, and praise—the sheer range of musical styles resists any easy categorization. Further, African geography itself resists boundaries. The boundaries of cultures and languages are often far more complex than political boundaries.
Complicating things further, entire countries seem to have been skipped over by both commercial 78 rpm record companies and ethnographers during the 78 rpm era. No doubt it was the same with many cultures. But that doesn’t mean that 78s weren’t everywhere, even in remote parts of the continent. By the mid-1960s, 78s were still a popular if not preferred medium in much of Africa, as a significant amount of the population still used wind-up gramophone players.
