Folklore Research Mission (Version 2)

The mission intention was to record as much music as possible as quickly as possible, before encroaching influences like radio and the cinema began transforming the region's distinctive culture. | Early in 1938, Folklore Research Mission with four-members was dispatched to the northeastern hinterlands of Brazil. | They recorded whoever and whatever seemed to be interesting: piano carriers, cowboys, beggars, voodoo priests, quarry workers, fishermen, dance troupes and even children at play. | But the Brazilian mission's collection ended up languishing in vaults here.