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Dmitri Pokrovsky

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Dmitri Pokrovsky

Dmitri Viktorovich Pokrovsky (Russian: Дмитрий Викторович Покровский, 3 May 1944 – 29 June 1996)[1] was a Russian folk music researcher and musician, best known for his efforts to rediscover authentic, and often near extinct rural musical traditions, from many different regions of Russia, and re-enacting them with the Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble.[2]

References

  1. ^ Kozinn, Allan (July 3, 1996). "Dmitri Pokrovsky, 52, Singer And Russian Ethnomusicologist". The New York Times.
  2. ^ Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 1973. ISBN 978-0-85112-939-6.