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Folk Music Research and Folk Music Collecting in Greenland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2019

Michael Hauser
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The purpose of this article is to examine the study of traditional music in Greenland and thereby outline the history of traditional Greenlandic music and its present state. From the beginning of the century the study of traditional Greenlandic music has primarily taken place within the framework of the Danish Folklore Archives in Copenhagen. Many collectors were sent out by this institution, and nearly all of the sound recordings made in Greenland since 1905 have been deposited there.

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Yearbook for Traditional Music , Volume 25 , 1993 , pp. 136 - 147
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Copyright © 1993 by the International Council for Traditional Music

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