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The United States National Recording Preservation Board selects recorded sounds for preservation in the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry.The National Recording Registry was initiated to maintain and preserve "sound recordings that are culturally, historically or aesthetically significant"; to be eligible, recordings must be at least ten years old.
Old Time Music at Clarence Ashley's: Clarence Ashley, Doc Watson, others 1960–1962 Hoodoo Man Blues: Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band feat. Buddy Guy: 1965 Sounds of Silence: Simon & Garfunkel: 1966 Cheap Thrills: Big Brother and the Holding Company: 1968 The Dark Side of the Moon: Pink Floyd: 1973 Music Time In Africa Episode: "Mauritania ...
The Complete Plantation Recordings, subtitled The Historic 1941-42 Library of Congress Field Recordings, is a compilation album of the blues musician Muddy Waters' first recordings collected by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress in 1941-42 and released by the Chess label in 1993. [1]
The Library of Congress Recording Sessions refers to a March 1940 session of recordings Woody Guthrie made in Washington, D.C., for Alan Lomax. They were catalogued in the United States Library of Congress. They are notable as the first recordings made of Woody Guthrie.
In 1870, Congress passed a law that centralized the copyright system in the Library of Congress. This law required all owners of copyrights of publicly distributed works to deposit in the Library two copies of every such work registered in the United States, whether it is a book, pamphlet, map, print, or piece of music.
arwulf arwulf [], writing for allmusic, described the recordings as having been "beautifully restored."[7]Harvey Pekar, writing for The Austin Chronicle, gave the set a five-star rating (of a possible five), noting that "[Morton's] oral history here is provocative, and his playing bears out some of the hard-to-believe statements that have been made by (and about) him."
The pilot for the American Memory project was a digitization program which started in 1990. Selected Library of Congress holdings including examples of film, video, audio recordings, books and photographs were digitized and distributed on Laserdisc and CD-ROM.
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