Discurio was founded in Melbourne by Ruth and Peter Mann in the early 1960s and is still one of Australia's leading distributors of folk music recordings. In the mid-1950s the Manns launched the Score recording label and produced some of Australia's first recordings of Australian folk music as well as jazz, classical and Aboriginal music.
Score also produced some pioneering recordings of Australian spoken word and contemporary culture. Some of the earliest Score recordings include Bill Harney and Alan Marshall Go Talkabout and Joan and Miles Maxwell's Australian Folk Songs as well as Barry Humphries's Wild f Life in Suburbia. In the late 1950s
Ruth and Peter Mann began importing records from Folkways and Bluenote in the United States, which were initially wholesaled from theire home until Discurio was opened in York House, Little Collins Street.
Some important recordings produced by Score in the 196os were Declan Affley's Rake and Rambling Man and Man and Bullockies, Bushwhackers and Booze.
Ruth and Peter Mann were if both born in Germany and came to Australia as refugees in the late 193os. The establishment of the Score recording label,
Discurio and its subsidiary, Fine Music, are examples of the major contribution to Australian cultural life made by Jewish and other immigrants. Discurio is currently housed in McKillop Street, Melbourne and is run by Tim Mann.
Although Score no longer exists, Discurio continues its tradition of supporting folk music in general, d particularly through concert promotions and record sales of groups such as Sweet Honey in the Rock and Balkana.
From Oxford Companion Australian Folklore 1993
Score also produced some pioneering recordings of Australian spoken word and contemporary culture. Some of the earliest Score recordings include Bill Harney and Alan Marshall Go Talkabout and Joan and Miles Maxwell's Australian Folk Songs as well as Barry Humphries's Wild f Life in Suburbia. In the late 1950s
Ruth and Peter Mann began importing records from Folkways and Bluenote in the United States, which were initially wholesaled from theire home until Discurio was opened in York House, Little Collins Street.
Some important recordings produced by Score in the 196os were Declan Affley's Rake and Rambling Man and Man and Bullockies, Bushwhackers and Booze.
Ruth and Peter Mann were if both born in Germany and came to Australia as refugees in the late 193os. The establishment of the Score recording label,
Discurio and its subsidiary, Fine Music, are examples of the major contribution to Australian cultural life made by Jewish and other immigrants. Discurio is currently housed in McKillop Street, Melbourne and is run by Tim Mann.
Although Score no longer exists, Discurio continues its tradition of supporting folk music in general, d particularly through concert promotions and record sales of groups such as Sweet Honey in the Rock and Balkana.
From Oxford Companion Australian Folklore 1993
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