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Outside links of interest

Archives | Library of Congress | Organizations | Industry | Pioneers | Phonographs | Preservation | Jazz | Spoken Word | Radio | Miscellany

Comments and suggested links welcome! (soundarchive@stanford.edu)

Archives, libraries, museums

Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound at The New York Public Library
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive at Syracuse University, including the digitized cylinders database
The British Library Archival Sound Recordings
The Virtual Gramophone, presented by the National Library of Canada
Bibliothèque Nationale de France: Les collections audiovisuelles
Phonogrammarchiv at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Historical Sound Recordings at Yale University
Marr Sound Archives at the University of Missouri-Kansas City
Performing Arts Collections at the University of California, Santa Barbara including the cylinder digitization and preservation project
International Piano Archives at Maryland
Museum of Television and Radio
Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University
Archives of Tradional Music at Indiana University
Archive of World Music at Harvard University
World Music Archives at Wesleyan University
Southern Folklife Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM)

Library of Congress

Recorded Sound Reference Center (and how to obtain copies.)
National Recording Registry
American Folklife Center
American Memory Project Sound Recordings

Organizations

ARSC — Association for Recorded Sound Collection
ARSC 2008 Conference Recordings online new!
Canadian Antique Phonograph Society
IASA — International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives
National Association of Recording Industry Professionals
British Sound Recording Association
Finnish Institute of Recorded Sound
First Sounds

Industry

Grammy — The Recording Academy
Recording Industry Association of America
US Copyright Office: Registering Sound Recordings

Pioneers

Edison National Historic Site
Inventing Entertainment (Edison, from the American Memory Project)
David Sarnoff Library
Radio Pioneers & Core Technologies from the FCC

Phonographs and such

Resources for Phonograph Collectors (Allen Koenigsberg)
Gramophone Adventures
Michigan Antique Phonograph Society
“Nipperhead”
Phonographs and Old Recordings Pages (Tim Gracyk)
World of Gramophones (links page)
Edison Phonograph Museum (Quebec)
Edison Shop
Victor Victrola Page
Mr. Victor
Victor Talking Machines

Preservation

Save Our Sounds (Smithsonian Institution and LC)
Magnetic Tape Preservation (Vidipax), including “sticky shed syndrome”
National Recording Registry (Library of Congress)

Jazz

Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University
Chicago Jazz Archive at the University of Chicago
William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz at Tulane University
Jazz Roots
Red Hot Jazz Archive
Verve Music Group Jazz History
www.Harlem.org
Monterey Jazz Festival

Spoken word

Vincent Voice Library at Michigan State University
Museum of Modern Art (NY) Historic Audio Archives
American Leaders Speak, recordings from World War 1 and the 1920 election at the Library of Congress
Audio Archive of Soviet and Russian History established by National Public Radio and the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies
Internet Poetry Archive at the University of North Carolina
The Poetry Archive
Speech Archive at The History Channel
Social Activism/Black Panthers at UC Berkeley
U.S. History Out Loud
Supreme Court of the United States Audio Archives

Radio

National Public Radio
BBC Radio
Pacifica Radio
United States Early Radio History
Radio Era Archives
David Sarnoff Library

Miscellany

History of Recording Technology (D. Morton)
World Forum for Acoustic Ecology
8-Track Heaven
Brahms at the Piano (Jonathan Berger/CCRMA)
Tinfoil.com (early recorded sounds on cylinder)
Historic Naval Sound & Video
Public Domain Music (information on copyrighted sound recordings)
Western Soundscape Archive (listen to the natural world of the Western states)
UCSC Electronic Music Studios: Technical Essays


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