sounds a bit like the smithsonian folkways project that mickey hart is involved with. i so love that we are able to have the voices of these people. i read somewhere about the amount of books, and music that have been lost throughout history. *sigh*

makes me think that one of the good and fairly safe purposes for a time travel machine would be the ability to make a recording of people singing and telling stories say.....2700 years ago. imagine if we could get a recording of 'homer' telling the story of the iliad for example. or at any other time [insert historical period of choice here].

ps. i'm having a sunday filled with tangents. heh.