Nonmusic Recording (Collection)Karl Signell collection
Main title
- Karl Signell collection [sound recording].
Published/Created
- 1970-1998.
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Description
- approximately 722 sound tape reels : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 15 ips, 2 track, mono. and stereo. ; 7 in. and 10 in.
Rights advisory
- Duplication of sound recordings may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.
Access advisory
- Collection is open for research. Access to recordings may be restricted. To request materials, please contact the Folklife Reading Room at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.contact
Local shelving no.
- RAA 59188-59272, RAA 60520-60537, RAA 60550-60571, RAA 60609-60676 (10 in.); RGB 9442-9475 (DAT); RXI 6113-6314 (7 in.); RVA 1954-1999, RVA 2001-2079, RVA 2081-2086, RVA 2088-2090 (audio on videocassette); RYP 6136- 6190 (audio cassette)
- AFC 1997/032
Related names
Performer
- Various performers, composers, folklorists, ethnomusicologists, and other interviewees including Yacub Addy, Emanuel Ax, Dewey Balfa, Blema Bii, Roberto Borrell, John Cage, Betty Carter, John Cephas, Bob Devlin, Steven Feld, Howard Gardiner, Amy Horowitz, Alan Jabbour, John Jackson, Adrienne Kaeppler, Charles Keil, David McAllester, Flora Molten, Katsuko Nakasone, Lao Nattasin ensemble, Wynton Marsalis, Yehudi Menuhin, Ephat Mujuru, Jean-Jacques Nattiez, Jozef Pacholczyk, Father Viktor Patapov, Trevor Pinnock, Marina Roseman, Gilbert Rouget, Jay Saks, Jack Santino, R. Murray Schafer, Anthony Seeger, Father Seraphim of Holy Trinity Church, San Francisco; Dan Sheehy, Michael Shore, Zoya Simantov, Richard Spottswood, Robert Farris Thompson, Stephen Wade, Phil Wiggins, Frank Zappa, David Zinman, and many others.
Biography/History note
- Funding by Corporation for Public Broadcasting Satellite Program Development Fund with recording equipment and materials supplied by the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
Summary
- Collection of concert recordings, field recordings, interviews, and various broadcast masters, re-masters, production masters, unedited mixes, and outtakes for radio broadcasts featuring African American church services and interviews; Afro-Cuban rumba and lucumi music, Albanian music, Andean music, Arab music, Asian American music, Basque folk music, Brazilian carnival music, Cambodian music, Central Asian music, Chinese music, Cuban progressive jazz, English change-ringing bells, Ethiopian music, music of Ghana, Greek Byzantine liturgy, Greek music, Haitian music, Hmong music, Iraqi folk and classical music, Korean shamanic dance and music, Lao court music, Lao ritual Buddhist music, Central Javanese wayang (shadow-puppet drama), Mexican Jarocho music, Mexican mariachi music, Persian Sufi music, Portuguese fado music, Russian folk music, Russian Orthodox liturgy, Samoan music, South Slavic music, Turkish classical music, Turkish folk music, Turkish Mevlevi music; Vietnamese music, Zimbabwe mbira music, and a few recordings of nature sounds in Quebec, Canada and 17-year cicadas in Hyattsville, Maryland. Recordings were produced for radio series including Festival of Indonesia, Folk Festival U.S.A., Music in a New World, The Nature of Music, The Osgood File, The Sunday Show, and for Voice of America.
LC Subjects
Notes
- In process.
- Recorded at various locations including Los Angeles and San Francisco, California; Maryland; Detroit, Michigan; New York, N.Y.; Providence, Rhode Island; Washington, D.C.; Canada, Cuba, England, Germany, Turkey, and other locations.
- In English, Spanish, and sung in various languages.
Indexes
- Database for titles is available through the University of Maryland: http://userpages.umbc.edu/~signell/sem/LC_Signell.html
Acquisition source
- Karl Signell; Donation; 1997.
Cite as
- Karl Signell collection (AFC 1997/032), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
LCCN
- 2015655370
Geographic area code
- n-us--- a-tu--- a-io---
Repository
- Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540-4610 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.home
Type of material
- Nonmusic Recording (Collection)
Item Availability
CALL NUMBER
Request in
- American Folklife Center (Jefferson, LJG53)
