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Recording the World

Sidedoor

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The Yellow Grape Leaf Beetle

Moses Ash set out to record every sound in the world in 1948. The Smithsonian Folkways archives are one of the most important repositories of old recordings. What does it mean to collect and preserve sounds? And how can the sounds of yesterday carry us into tomorrow? That's after the break.

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