Oldest Louisiana Creole recordings found in Indiana archive

Oldest Louisiana Creole recordings found in Indiana archive

Rediscovered Aluminum Discs Yield Oldest Known Recordings of Louisiana Creole More than 90 years after a linguist carried a 100-pound recording apparatus into private offices across Louisiana, his aluminum discs have been unearthed in an Indiana archive to become the oldest known audio recordings of authentic Louisiana Creole. Originally captured by Lorenzo Dow Turner in … Read more