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Luntilua
Matts Arnberg (1919 – 1995) worked at the Swedish Broadcasting Company
as a radio producer. From 1948 and twenty years forward he made
collections that produced some 8000 folk music recordings, songs and
tunes, now in the archives of The Centre for Swedish Folk Music and
Jazz Research in Stockholm. In august 1956 he travelled round the
Baltic island of Gotland and collected the remains of a musical
tradition from days gone by. This record presents a selection of songs
from these field recordings with 16 singers from all over the island,
most of them born in the later part ot the 19th century. They were
mostly peasants, living in the countryside or in small villages but
among them there is also a carpenter, a salesman, a teacher, a
quarryman, a fisherman and a dairy-maid. Arnberg thought that perhaps
the most remarkable aspect of the Gotland song tradition – at least
regarding these recordings – was the degree in which it differs from
the tradition of the Swedish mainland, not only in its linguistic
dialect(s) but also regarding textual contents and melodies.
The singers are:
Patrik Lindby, Gammelgarn (1871-1960)
Emma Pettersson, Fleringe (1875-1958)
August Bodin, Hellvi (1871-1958)
Aron Gahrén, Garda (1882-1963)
Nina Wengberg, Klinte (1884-1970)
Elsa Sedergren, Öja (1903-1987)
Adolf Österdahl, Hall (1876-1960)
Sigrid Kindberg, Stenkyrka (1886-1977)
Alma Nyström, Garda (1885-1967)
Frank Landtbom, Fleringe (1895-1967)
Ida Landtbom, Fleringe (1889-1972)
Karl Lithberg, Öja (1896-1984)
Olga Pettersson, Lärbro (1877-1974)
Vina Pettersson, (1895-1975) och Hilmer Pettersson (1894-1983) Fleringe
Wilhelm Wessman, Fårö (1886-1958)
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