Author: BOS, PAULA R.,
Title: Biographies of Florenese musical Instruments and their Collectors. [First edition].
Description: Amsterdam, Tropenmuseum, 1999. 8°. Original limp glossy coloured publ. wrappers with covertitle in bold white type and an image of a Florenese musician. 96pp. 26 captioned monochrome images on 4 photo-plates after original field photos illustrating Florenese musicians playing traditional musical instruments, classification of Florenese musical instruments with 67 captioned monochrome images, note on the Rozing collection (appendix 2), printed marginalia, publ. serial information on verso of ti.-p., notes on used spelling, list of abbreviations, bibliography, concluding remarks, publ. serial list at rear end, synopsis on outer backcover, table of contents. [Bulletin of the Royal Tropical Institute, 347]. English language scholarly field research about traditional Florenese musical instruments. This study is based on the vast collection of the Amsterdam Tropical Collection of Florenese musical instruments, recordings, photographs and slides, originally collected and documented by the renowned ethnomusicologist Jaap Kunst, by his student, the SVD missionary Pé Rozing in the 1950s-1960a, The museum collections are compared from the viewpoint of the biography of obects. It includes the impact of social changes in Florenese Society. Good to very good copy. (lower right corner of outer backcover superficially cracked).

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