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Qualiton occupies a distinctive place in the history of recorded music as a cultural endeavor. Founded in Buenos Aires in the mid-twentieth century, the label emerged at a moment when recording technology, artistic ambition, and questions of cultural memory converged. Qualiton was conceived not merely as a commercial venture, but as a platform for documenting and disseminating music of substance—classical, folkloric, contemporary, and experimental—often at a time when such re