Our weekly roundup of archives-related news from around the globe
- Grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to broaden access to EMI Music Canada Archive while preserving original audio materials (UToday, July 29, 2016) – “The University of Calgary has received a grant of $275,000 CAD…to design effective methods for reformatting, preserving and administering access to audio recordings in the EMI Music Canada Archive, one of the most culturally significant 20th century collections acquired by a research library.”
- UVa professor culls recordings to ease food crisis in Malawi (The Daily Progress, July 20, 2016) – “I responded to Hugh Tracey’s collection when I first discovered it purely socially – I thought it was an incredible sound,” Lobley said over Skype from London about happening upon tens of thousands of recordings in South Africa’s International Library of African Music.”
- Forces of Change against Forces of Death: The Jean Rabel Massacre in the Radio Haiti Archives (The Devil’s Tale, July 25, 2016) – “Twentieth-century Haitian history is inscribed with the names of the recognized dead and with a litany of locations… which have come to stand for the untold numbers of dead, mostly poor, whose names are largely unknown. Yet they are not erased. Their voices persist, in Radio Haiti’s archive.”
