https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/38437 2026-04-04T19:45:32Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/17980 Title: Malta’s lost voices : the early recording of Maltese folk and popular music, 1931-32 Authors: Alamango, Andrew Abstract: The early recording of Maltese folk and popular music in the interwar period is a largely forgotten, yet significant part of local, musicological and socio-political history. Almost erased from local memory, through the gradual demise of the obsolete playback machines and the shellac and vinyl records, is a story of music and musicians, who along with local agents and international record labels, made history by documenting local music in the vernacular, or local dialect prevalent at the time. The impetus to record Maltese music came in early 1931, when the music establishments in Valletta were thriving businesses. At the time, music played back on 78rpm records and gramophones was a popular pastime. The music on the Maltese records attests to a vibrant musical activity present in Malta at the time. The local journals and newspapers gave witness to an unfolding phenomenon, which would entertain the people for decades to come. At the time, these records in the Maltese language caused quite a stir in various levels of society, as some even spurned their quality and content. Indeed the music and culture recorded on these discs, coupled with the technological commodity of playback machines, would act as a self-reflective tool, as, for the first time, the local folk heard their own music played back to them. 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/17979 Title: Initial work on the Malta music memory project : and its connections with oral history Authors: Sant, Toni Abstract: In 2009 I wrote an article for the Journal of Music, Technology and Education outlining plans to build a collaborative multimedia database of Maltese music and associated arts. In that article, I explained that the proposed collaborative project would rely on wiki technology to get going with capturing a living archive of past, present and future works of interest in connection to music and associated arts from and in Malta. I also identified various critical issues related to intellectual property rights, preservation policies and techniques, technical infrastructure strategies, and other similar topics, which need to be tackled through specially-developed postgraduate research studentships. Now, two years later, its time to assess what has happened in the initial attempts to implement the plans in the original outline. 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/17978 Title: The Maltese ‘Land Registry Certification System’ : Latin and Anglo-Saxon influences : an innovative approach to the economic history of English-speaking nations Authors: Marco, Elena di Abstract: In this article, the author states that the Maltese registry is unique in using both Italian and Anglo-Saxon influences in it's recording system - in itself a valuable source of the country's economic and social history. 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/17977 Title: Migration, surnames and marriage in the Maltese island of Gozo around 1900 Authors: Wyatt, H. V. Abstract: The marriage records in the Public Registry in Gozo have been used to count the. frequency of surnames. Children with poliomyelitis and their controls from the same villages have been traced to their great grand-parents. These records have been used to trace migration to and from the larger island of Malta and the extent of consanguinity in each village. 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z