During this period he began to collect and study folk music, songs and dances.

Even during the American Era, attempts to collect traditional music came rather late.

Elling's mandate was to collect music and also work to preserve it.

But his passion is collecting music "from the 50's and 60's, when I grew up."

Fact is, I collected music because it was easier than making lots of friends.

The members of the band themselves collect folk music - an experience they use to boost the band's repertoire.

He collected music from mostly the 1950s and 1960s from many genres.

It's not just the value of the iPod, it's the time you put into it collecting music.

In 1936 he travelled to Turkey to collect and study folk music.

From 1911 he received a scholarship for collecting traditional music.