Langston Hughes: Rhythms Of The World poetry+field recordings Folkways 1955 10"

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The Rhythms of the World narrated by Langston Hughes with documentary sounds label & cat. no.:Folkways FC 7340 pressed in:USA date:1955 format:10" Vinyl: vg+ (few light unfeelable scuffs)
Cover: vg (light wear, back has paper tear and name written in marker)

description:
Scarce 10" based on Hughes' The First Book of Rhythms with a very cool sound collage of spoken word and field recordings bordering on musique concrete. The Harlem Renaissance poet muses about the subtle divide between noise and music and the degree to which rhythms permeate everyday life, using spliced-in sounds to demonstrate all of the various sources of rhythms in the world from nature (heart beats, footsteps, insects, weather, etc.) to machines (trains, clocks, electronic sounds, etc.) to tribal drumming to American folk and jazz - basically raiding the entire Folkways catalog for relevant sounds! Produced by Moses Asch, Mel Kaiser (who also did the Science Fiction Sound Effects lp), and Peter Bartok (Bela's son). Includes insert booklet. Yet another great and unique Folkways obscurity, this record makes for a great DJ tool full of eclectic sound effects; it will be of interest to collectors of unique artist record objects and fans of field recorders and tape manipulators like Tony Schwartz (many of whose recordings are used on this record), John Cage, Jim Fassett, Luc Ferrari, and Pierre Schaeffer, turntablists and samplers like the Invisibl Skratch Piklz, Christian Marclay, Negativland, Kid Koala, and DJ Shadow, and black artists and poets like Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Bessie Smith, W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Romare Bearden.

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