Featured Online Resource--cylinders!

Featured Online Resource for the week of Feb. 28
UCSB CYLINDER PRESERVATION AND DIGITIZATION PROJECT

Streaming and downloadable recordings of cylinders from the early 20th century: spirituals, waltzes, polkas, sermons, whistling, fiddle tunes, jazz and much more.

The University of California-Santa Barbara has digitized approximately 6,000 cylinders from the Donald C. Davidson Library's Department of Special Collections. These include many "Edison rarities" and are a treasure trove for those with an interest in the history of American music.

FOR for week of Dec. 06

Featured Online Resource
Dec. 06, 2010

Every week, the Ort Library brings you a new and outstanding resource from the Web or from one of the library's databases. To get an archive of all FOR entries, click here. Also, you can suggest a website that provides well-organized access to useful info.

THIS WEEK'S Featured Online Resource

BBC World Music Archive

The BBC has unveiled a new archive of world music, allowing you to sample the musical traditions of more than 40 countries. India, Corsica,China, Cuba, Iran, Brazil, Mozambique, Turkey – they’re all represented in this eclectic collection of indigenous music. BBC 3 traveled to each country (including several conflict zones) to record the music. Featuring 100s of hours of free recordings, this archive is now available to a global audience. You can start exploring by selecting a recording by country name or via a world map.

BOM for November

BOM--Book of the Month for November
How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'N' Roll
Elijah Wald Oxford University Press 2009 ML 3477 W35

Wald decided that putting the Beatles in the title was just about enough; outside the intro and the last chapter, Wald isn't writing to make any argument about the Beatles or their effects on rock 'n' roll.
He instead gives an interesting look at popular music in the early
20th century, the life of a professional musician before the rise of records and radio, and the interaction of genres of music such as Blues, Country, R&B. It's a very worthwhile history of American music, 1900-1960.