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Created by Gloria J. Gibson and Daniel B. Reed in collaboration with the Teaching and Learning Technologies Laboratory, Indiana University, Bloomington. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. CD-ROM [Requires Macintosh Power PC 7100/100 or higher, quad-speed CD-ROM drive, System 7.5 or higher, 32 MB RAM; of Intel Pentium 166 or higher, quadspeed CD-ROM drive, Windows 95, 98, or NT, 32 MB RAM, Sound Blaster-compatible sound card, Direct X version 3.0 or higher, DirectDraw and DirectSounds drivers. 2-CD set. ISBN 0-253-33832-8. $39.95]
In 1934 four Americans, including anthropologist Laura Boulton and her ornithologist husband Rudyard, carried out an expedition in West Africa, as Boulton herself described it, "to collect specimens for the new hall of exotic birds in the Field Museum of Natural History, to film the customs and ceremonies of tribal life, and to record the music of French and British West Africa" (CD-ROM [cdtext.pdf], 65). Funded by the Carnegie Corporation and friend and benefactor Sarah Lavanburg Straus, the so-called Straus Expedition, which included three vehicles shipped to Dakar and a nine-person local support crew, traveled more than eight thousand miles across West Africa through colonial territories that have since become the nations of Senegal, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, and Cameroon. Laura Boulton's role was to collect music, and she did it with a passion. The expedition brought back more than 360 sound...
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