Music Recordings, Runcu, Gorj County, 1930

Iosif Berman · 1930

“Musical team” coordinated by Constantin Brăiloiu researched the musical folklore, recorded over 1800 songs and uncovered valuable lute, among them those from Costica Vraciu and Nicolae Zl" aru tarafs. The team also included the folklorist Harry Brauner, later politically condemned by the communist regime in Romania. Pictured C. Brăiloiu while making records. Photography during the excavations (June 29 - August 18, 1930) from Runcu, Gorj, village documented in 1486, located at the foothills of the Vâlcan Mountains in Sohodolului Gorge. Under the leadership of Professor Dimitrie Gusti (1880-1955, sociologist, academician, politician, initiator of the Sociological School from Bucharest) a team of 60 monographers has researched here methodically and analytically all the areas of his life - cosmological, biological, psychological, historical, economic, spiritual, politico-administrative. Following this campaign we defined the Romanian concepts about the theory and technique of sociological monography that were later known, appreciated and applied in European profile research. Photography, cacherata on a cardboard sheet; information: region, locality, title (in Romanian, French, German), date, photographer.