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- Tape Recording Featuring Radio Program "Traditions" (WETA), 1977-1982 - The transformative effects of magnetic tape upon sound, broadcast, and computing history cannot be overstated. In 1930, German companies AEG and BASF revised wire recording technology by using a new material: plastic tape coated with magnetic iron pigment. Its proposed applications were varied, idealistic and practical: recording music and radio, factory automation, data storage, media lending libraries, and many others.
- 1977-1982
- Collections - Artifact
Tape Recording Featuring Radio Program "Traditions" (WETA), 1977-1982
The transformative effects of magnetic tape upon sound, broadcast, and computing history cannot be overstated. In 1930, German companies AEG and BASF revised wire recording technology by using a new material: plastic tape coated with magnetic iron pigment. Its proposed applications were varied, idealistic and practical: recording music and radio, factory automation, data storage, media lending libraries, and many others.
- Record Album, "Negro Prison Songs," 1958 - Folklorist Alan Lomax, believing all people and cultures deserved equal respect, spent his career documenting remote musical traditions. This record's powerful songs, collected 1947-8 at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, attest to the parallels between the Deep South's oppressive prison system--requiring arduous physical labor under constant threat of physical punishment--and the experiences of enslaved work groups on 19th-century plantations.
- 1947
- Collections - Artifact
Record Album, "Negro Prison Songs," 1958
Folklorist Alan Lomax, believing all people and cultures deserved equal respect, spent his career documenting remote musical traditions. This record's powerful songs, collected 1947-8 at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, attest to the parallels between the Deep South's oppressive prison system--requiring arduous physical labor under constant threat of physical punishment--and the experiences of enslaved work groups on 19th-century plantations.
- "That's All Right" and "Crudup's After Hours" by Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, 1946 -
- 1946
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"That's All Right" and "Crudup's After Hours" by Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, 1946
- "Love Me or Let Me Be" and "Get Ready to Meet Your Man" by James "Beale Street" Clark, 1945 -
- 1945
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"Love Me or Let Me Be" and "Get Ready to Meet Your Man" by James "Beale Street" Clark, 1945