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Label

Folkways
Country
United States
Active
from 1948 to 1987
Comments
Record label based on Broadway in New York City and founded by Moses Asch and Marian Distler. Folkways specialized in educational and historical recordings, field recordings, traditional and contemporary folk music. Following the death of founder Moses Asch in 1986, the label was acquired by The Smithsonian Institution in 1987.
Related labels
Asch Recordings   Sublabel
Broadside   Partner label (licensor)
Disc   Forerunner
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings   Successor

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