Brazilian Music Records

Traveling by truck, horse and donkey, 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. | His intention was to record as much music as possible as quickly as possible, before encroaching influences like radio and cinema began transforming the region's distinctive culture. | Early in 1938, Mário de Andrade, the municipal secretary of the culture here, dispatched a four-member Folklore Research Mission to the northeastern hinterlands of Brazil on a similar mission. | But the Brazilian mission's collection ended up languishing in vaults here.