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Legend of the Sun Virgin (VINYL EXOTICA LP)
Published by Capitol Records, Los Angeles, California, 1952
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Not a book but a 10-inch "nonbreakable" 33-1/3 rpm vinyl LP, Capitol L-299, near mint vinyl in a very-good-plus glossy cardboard jacket with small brown tape ghost to verso. No, Yma Sumac was not a Brooklyn waitress named Amy Camus, as scurrilously rumored at the time. Rather, this South American singer of extraordinary four-octave vocal range, who began as a folk singer in the more traditional mold, was taken under the wing of arranger Moises Vivanca, decked out in exotic garb, and promoted in North America as an "Inca princess," which (though duly attested to by the government of her native land at the time) could presumably be equally true or untrue of any indigenous native of that continent. The pair formed a leading part of the "exotic" musical movement of the 1950s, seeking some kind of liberation from stultifying Eurocentric musical norms, a demand which was soon to find an outlet in "rock 'n roll." Catalogs $120. Here reduced from $45.
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Legend of the Sun Virgin (VINYL EXOTICA LP)
Published by Capitol Records, Hollywood, California, 1952
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Not a book but a 10-inch "nonbreakable" 33-1/3 rpm vinyl LP, Capitol L-299, near mint vinyl in a very-good-plus glossy cardboard jacket with a browning strip of old, nitrate-based "Scotch" tape along bottom edge of jacket, front & back. The rumor that she was really a Brooklyn waitress named Amy Cumas appears to have been scurrilous. Yma Sumac was in fact the South American singer of extraordinary vocal range who was taken under the wing of arranger Moises Vivanca, decked out in gold-coin finery, and promoted in North America as an "Inca princess," which could presumably be equally true or untrue of any native of that continent. The pair formed a leading part of the "exotic" musical movement of the 1950s, seeking some kind of liberation from stultifying Eurocentric musical norms, a demand which was soon to find a more adaptable outlet in "rock 'n roll." The slightly lesser jacket of two now on offer. Exotica. Catalogs $120; here reduced from $35.
