Southern Podlasie Museum Collection
Muzeum Południowego Podlasia
Warszawska 12, 21-500 Biała Podlaska
muzeumbiala.pl
Resources from the collection of the Museum in Biała Podlaska have been recorded on 54 cassette tapes in the late 70s and 80s by Aranuta Ada Radzikowska and Celestyn Wrębiak in Biała Podlaska, Derewiczna, Łomazy, Międzyrzec Podlaski, Milanów, Rossosz, Chmielów, Sitnik, Suchowola, Brzozowica Duża, Gęś, Czeputka, Styrzyniec.
Apart from sound documentation there’s also written documentation, that includes inventory books (two) and musical-lyrical transcriptions.
Both singing and instruments (mainly dances, such as oberek, polka and walczyk) have been recorded. Apart from the ethnomusical recordings, the collection also includes recordings of interviews, e.g. a biographical interview focused on the pottery centre in Biała Podlaska, on the weaving centre in Kopytnik or on the violin-making craft, a folk sculptor or a folk poet interview.
Southern Podlasie Museum’s documentation has been digitalized and developed by Teresa Nowak oraz Barbara Śnieżek within the Polish folk music – phonographic heritage project.
Zob. też:
Jacek Jackowski, Archiwa dźwiękowe – zasób i dostępność, w: Raport o stanie tradycyjnej kultury muzycznej, red. Weronika Grozdew-Kołacińska. Warszawa 2014: Instytut Muzyki i Tańca, s. 138.