Alain Daniélou (1907-1994), essayist, musicologist, Sanskrit expert and philosopher, was professor at Banaras Hindu University from 1949 to 1953, honorary member of the French Institute of Indian Studies and director of the Adyar Library of Manuscripts, among others. His devotion to music earned him the management of the Institute for Comparative Music Studies of Berlin and Venice until 1977. Casa Asia Record Library is named after him in recognition to the donation he left the institution: 72 digitised CDs from coils that contained more than 50 hours of folk music recorded between 1950 and 1970 in countries such as India, Afghanistan, Iran or Thailand, among others. Today his legacy is one of the main sources of Asian music in Europe.

Description

In addition to the Legacy Alain Daniélou, in the record library you can find folk and contemporary music of the region of Asia and the Pacific and the audio recordings of lectures held at Casa Asia

Installation

8 seats to listen to music CDs, with views to the Sagrada Familia and the Casa de las Punxes.

Classification

Music in CD format has been classified alphabetically by country: India (II), Japan (JA), China (CC)... each one of them has been ordered by consecutive numbers.

See the list of countries

Example

Casa Asia countries are included in 6 geographic areas:

Central Asia (AC)
South Asia (AM)
Far East (EO)
Oceania (OC)
Middle East (OM)
Southeast Asia (SEA)

In order to classify the CDs that deal with more than one country that belongs to the same geographic area:

See the list of geographic areas

When a CD deals with more than one country that does not coincide with the same geographic area, it has been classified as Asia (A): Afghanistan (AF) belongs to South Asia (AM.) and Burma (BR) to Southeast Asia (SEA), therefore the CD will be placed in Asia (A)

Example

Lectures (Conf.) organised by Casa Asia and the Legacy of Alain Daniélou (LAD) are separated from the musical collection and they have been ordered by consecutive numbers.

Example