The Recording Industry in Singapore, 1903-1985
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Singapore used to be a major recording centre in Southeast Asia, with over 10,000 local recordings made before 1960. Hear the story from sound archivist Ross Laird, author of From Keroncong to Xinyao.
Ross was formerly a sound archivist with the National Film & Sound Archive of Australia. He was awarded NLB’s Lee Kong Chian Research Fellowship in 2010.
Read the transcript and the original BiblioAsia article on biblioasia.nlb.gov.sg/podcast/about.
This episode of BiblioAsia+ was hosted by Jimmy Yap and produced by Soh Gek Han. Sound engineering was done by Gibson Analytics. The background music "Di Tanjong Katong" was composed by Osman Ahmad and performed by Chords Haven. Special thanks to Ross for coming on the show.
BiblioAsia+ is a podcast about Singapore history by the National Library of Singapore.
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