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Dr. Deirdre Ní Chonghaile introduces the story of how American folk music collector Sidney Robertson Cowell documented traditional music in the Aran Islands and Carna in 1955 and 1956 and shares a detailed itemized catalogue of the audio recordings in multiple digital formats. She also presents lists of women music collectors from Ireland and the United States of America.
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![Sidney Robertson Cowell copying California Folk Music Project recordings for the Library of Congress in the project office on Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, California, in early 1939, courtesy of the American Folklife Center / [unidentified photographer]](https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/images.itma.ie/src/src01_1939_afc_src_berkeley.jpg "Sidney Robertson Cowell copying California Folk Music Project recordings for the Library of Congress in the project office on Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, California, in early 1939, courtesy of the American Folklife Center / [unidentified photographer]")