KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ World Ear Project: Sounds from the Village of Ruski Krstur

Analog Audio

Event Type

Other Finds

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

WEP.1969.XX.XX.01

Program Series

World Ear Project

Program Length

4 min

Dates

| broadcast
| 402 | created

Description

Recorded in the Summer of 1969 by ethnomusicologist Martin Koenig and submitted to KPFA’s World Ear Project, this tape captures a conversation between two cattle herders and a woman, in the village of Ruski Krstur in Yugoslavia (now Serbia). The three are speaking in the language of the Rusyn, a sizable ethnic minority within the Vojvodina district of Yugoslavia.

Genres

Field recordings

Musical Selections

[sounds from the village of Ruski Krstur, Yugoslavia, Summer 1969] / Martin Koenig

Subjects

Field recordings
Ambient sounds

Acknowledgment

Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by the GRAMMY Foundation.

Related place

Ruski Krstur (Serbia, former Yugoslavia) (was recorded at)

Related Entities

Koenig, Martin