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The Bob Dylan Centre is filled with material from the singer/songwriter’s archive, which he sold to the Tulsa-based George Kaiser Family Foundation in 2016. 06 May 2-22 | DAVID BAUDER | AP via Tulsa World NEW YORK (AP) — Elvis Costello, Patti Smith and Mavis Staples were among the dignitaries in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for the…
Neil Simon’s notebooks, scripts, speeches, drafts of letters, artwork and even signed baseballs have been donated to the Library of Congress Photo: Neil Simon see at premiere of the movie SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES 12/10/80. Photo: Alan Light 25 April 2022 | MARK KENNEDY | AP via ABC News NEW YORK — Dozens of notebooks,…
The online archive will serve as a resource and digital library, and provide the Garcia community a place to contribute, connect and inspire. Photo by Herb Greene 08 December 2021 | Jambase The Jerry Garcia Foundation has shared its latest venture, the Jerry Garcia Archive. The unveiling of the archive will take place on Aug….
There are many challenges facing shuttered newspapers that might have decades or even centuries of archival material to preserve. Photo: (Quinn Dombrowski/Flickr) 24 November 2021 | Andrew Egan | Tedium A slow death by a thousand paper cuts Newspapers and print journalism in general have been dying a slow death for more than 20 years…
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11 May 2021 | Noise11.com Pearl Jam has once again made history, releasing a digital collection of music from a staggering 186 live shows that includes 5,404 individual tracks. Spanning two decades of shows, this gargantuan drop consists of the most sought-after bootlegs from fan favorite tours during 2000, 2003, 2008, and 2013. The release…
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04 May 2021 | Open Culture (original link) In the history of recorded music, no medium has demonstrated quite the staying power of the phonograph record. Hearing those words, most of us envision a twelve-inch disc designed to play at 33 1⁄3 revolutions per minute, the kind still manufactured today. But like every other form of technology,…
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