O czterech motywach tworzenia zbiorów i archiwów fonograficznych

The text reports on setting up phonograhic collections and archives in the past and discusses four attitudes of ethnologists and musicologists engaged in phonograph-aided field research. The enthusiasm for creating an alternative acoustical reality in time, the sound collection as a natural continuation of traditional libraries, the eager acceptance of recording technology to preserve and safeguard declining traditions, and the development of musical analyses thanks to multiple listenings to recordings – all these psychological components constituted the ideology of archives and initiated comparative musicology as a “science” and ethnomusicology concentrated on humanly organized sound.