Ocora
Ocora (Office de Coopération Radiophonique) is a French record label specializing in field recordings of world music. It was founded in 1957 by the composer, pianist and musicologist Charles Duvelle with the musician Pierre Schaeffer. Part of Radio France.
Also recorded as Ocora Radio France
Ocora
- Name
- Ocora
- Founded
- 1955.
- Founder
- Pierre Schaeffer.
- Headquarters
- Paris.
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Ocora (Office de Coopération Radiophonique) is a French record label specializing in field recordings of world music. It was founded in 1957 by the composer, pianist and musicologist Charles Duvelle with the musician Pierre Schaeffer. Part of Radio France.
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Ocora also is a word from the language of the Timucuan people who once inhabited Florida USA, meaning "place of gathering." On 14 April 1962 SORAFOM became the Office de coopération radiophonique (OCORA), whose members became advisors. On 1 January 1969 OCORA was absorbed by ORTF. Charles Duvelle, who had created and directed the prestigious OCORA collection (records of traditional world music) since 1960, integrated it into the musical services of the DAEC (Direction des affaires extérieures et de la coopération), which he was newly in charge of within ORTF.
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• Name — Ocora • Parent — Radio France • Founded — 1957 • Founder — Charles Duvelle, Pierre Schaeffer • Genre — World music, field recordings • Country — France
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1955
Ocora established.
1955
Ocora is recorded from 1955.
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- Collection Musiques Traditionnelles Vivantes. V. Musiques Populaires - Bali. Joged Bumbung. One 12” LP Record. OCORA 558 501. Stereo. Recordings (Bali, 1974), photographs, French and English notes by Jacques Brunet. Paris, OCORA/Radio-France, 1975, Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council, 1976
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 1976
- Sunda. Musique et chants traditionnels. One 12” LP Record. OCORA 558 502. Stereo. Recordings (1972, 1973), photographs, French and English notes by Jacques Brunet. Paris, OCORA/Radio-France, 1976, Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council, 1976
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 1976
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q3348751: Ocora
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- “Ocora”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- 1.Étienne Menu, « Ethnomusicologie d’État », Vice, 14 janvier 2016.
- 2.Voir l'article Wikipédia André Clavé
- 3.Francine Galliard-Risler, Dora-Harzungen, la marche de la mort, Éditions Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire, 2005 – Ouvrage collectif dirigé par FGR – Préface de Pierre Sudreau – Introduction d’Alfred Jahn – Témoignages d'André Clavé, de René Haenjens, Wolf Wexler, préface de Pierre Sudreau, Jean Mialet – Évocation du réseau Brutus de la Résistance intérieure française ; ouvrage traduit et publié en Allemagne en 2015 sous le titre Todesmarsch in die Freiheit ;
- 4.Francine Galliard-Risler, André Clavé : théâtre et Résistance : utopies et réalités, Paris, AAAC, 1998
- 5.Nidam Abdi, Duvelle, le phonothécaire. Avant et avec le label Ocora, il a défriché la world music. », Libération, 26 février 1999
- 6.Collection Ocora : Œuvres du catalogue Ocora Radio France. Radio France.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Francine Galliard-Risler, André Clavé : théâtre et résistances, utopies et réalités, 1916-1981, Paris, Association des amis d'André Clavé, 1998
- Jocelyne Tournet-Lammer, Sur les traces de Pierre Schaeffer : archives 1942-1995, avec des illustrations de Francine Galliard-Risler, Paris, Ina, La Documentation française, coll. « Fenêtre sur les archives de l’Ina », 2006
- Guy Robert, Le vent qui souffle dans la boîte : de la coopération radiophonique aux coulisses de RFI, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2007
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