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FOLK MUSIC OF ALBANIA

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Compiled and introduced by A. L. Lloyd and illustrated with field recordings
Readers, CAROLE BOYD and DENYS HAWTHORNE
Edward Lear. PRESTON LOCKWOOD
Produced by Douglas Cleverden
A L. Lloyd was the first British folklorist since the war to record folk music in Albania. In the autumn of 1965 he made a prolonged tour. visiting several of the places that Edward Lear saw in 1848, and recording the heroic ballads of the northern mountain tribes as well as the polyphonic folk songs of the towns and the southern countryside.
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Introduced By:
A. L. Lloyd
Readers:
Carole Boyd
Readers:
Denys Hawthorne
Unknown:
Edward Lear.
Produced By:
Douglas Cleverden
Unknown:
L. Lloyd
Unknown:
Edward Lear
Source: Radio Times

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