Re: searching for obscure objects

[Eliott Kahn <Elkahn...>]

Helen:

You might want to check with your local or university library and see if they 
are on the OCLC world-cat online system. They can do searches for you by 
Library of Congress subject headings as well as title, author, geographical 
location, etc.

For instance, an LC subject heading that might be helpful would be: Dance Music 
- History and criticism. This in turn might be subdivided by Geographic region.

Perhaps Judy Pinnolis can amplify this topic a bit more. 

Eliott Kahn 

At 08:39 AM 6/7/00 -0600, you wrote:
>A comment from a non-musician:  While musical and dance traditions may be well 
>known to specialists in the field, there are plenty of us out there, who want 
>to know more.  Unfortunately, the information seems to be very hard to find.  
>In fact, without a lot of digging, sometimes we don't even know the 
>information exists in the first place.  It was only through a very brief 
>posting on this list and my friend Altavista, that I was able to find out 
>about a very old out of print book about the dances.  Through persistance, I 
>was able to find a single copy, again via the internet and that all led to 
>other things.  However, not everyone can/wants to jump through so many hoops 
>to find out about these things.  Making the information available to everyone 
>I think is very important.  How do we know there isn't a budding klezmer in 
>Taber Alberta (Canada) who would love to have access to this music?
>Helen
>
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