From Dust to Digital

From Dust to Digital
Author: Maja Kominko
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Total Pages: 724
Release: 2015-02-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1783740620

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Much of world’s documentary heritage rests in vulnerable, little-known and often inaccessible archives. Many of these archives preserve information that may cast new light on historical phenomena and lead to their reinterpretation. But such rich collections are often at risk of being lost before the history they capture is recorded. This volume celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library, established to document and publish online formerly inaccessible and neglected archives from across the globe. From Dust to Digital showcases the historical significance of the collections identified, catalogued and digitised through the Programme, bringing together articles on 19 of the 244 projects supported since its inception. These contributions demonstrate the range of materials documented — including rock inscriptions, manuscripts, archival records, newspapers, photographs and sound archives — and the wide geographical scope of the Programme. Many of the documents are published here for the first time, illustrating the potential these collections have to further our understanding of history.

Dust & Grooves

Dust & Grooves
Author: Eilon Paz
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Total Pages: 577
Release: 2015-09-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1607748703

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A photographic look into the world of vinyl record collectors—including Questlove—in the most intimate of environments—their record rooms. Compelling photographic essays from photographer Eilon Paz are paired with in-depth and insightful interviews to illustrate what motivates these collectors to keep digging for more records. The reader gets an up close and personal look at a variety of well-known vinyl champions, including Gilles Peterson and King Britt, as well as a glimpse into the collections of known and unknown DJs, producers, record dealers, and everyday enthusiasts. Driven by his love for vinyl records, Paz takes us on a five-year journey unearthing the very soul of the vinyl community.

Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line

Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line
Author: Clifford R. Murphy
Publisher: Dust to Digital
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Bluegrass music
ISBN: 9780981734279

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Ola Belle Reed (1916-2002) was one of the all-time greatest performers of Appalachian music. Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line combines Reed's 1960s recordings, some of the earliest she ever made and available here for the very first time, with modern-day field recordings of her descendants and those she inspired within her Appalachian community. This deluxe edition highlights Reed's deep repertoire--folk ballads, minstrel songs, country standards and originals--and traces the impact her music made and is still making today. The two-CD set is accompanied by a luxurious publication tracing Reed's influence and the folklorists who have tracked it: Henry Glassie, who first heard Alex and Ola Belle play in 1966 at the back of the Campbell's Corner general store, and Clifford R. Murphy, who, four decades later, recorded Reed's modern successors in Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania.

The Birth of Rock and Roll

The Birth of Rock and Roll
Author: Jim Linderman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780981734286

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"Linderman's arranged a storyboard of sorts that dramatizes the spririt, if not the chronology of rock and roll. Poetically, the pohotos evoke without naming, and have little to do with the conventional iconography of the birth of rock and roll ... Instead they document, and celebrate, the pure but indefinable essence of rocking. Ordinary, nameless men, women, and children, some white, some black ..."--Introduction to Bonomo's interview with Linderman.

Lead Kindly Light

Lead Kindly Light
Author: Sarah Bryan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Blues (Music)
ISBN: 9780981734262

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Photographic collection of the rural American South between the early 1900s and the Second World War. Also includes two CDs of traditional music from early phonograph records from the region.

Drop on Down in Florida

Drop on Down in Florida
Author: Dwight DeVane
Publisher: Dust to Digital
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 9781938922244

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Based on four years of fieldwork throughout the state, the Florida Folklife Program released the two-album, 27-track LP "Drop on Down in Florida" in 1981. The album was intended to highlight African American music traditions for a statewide public audience, blues and sacred traditions in particular. In recent years, the Folklife Program sought the opportunity to produce an expanded reissue of the album that would include previously unissued fieldwork recordings and photos. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork materials now housed in the State Archives of Florida, the expanded reissue includes nearly 80 previously-unreleased minutes of music on 28 new tracks, plus numerous photos documenting the musicians and communities that perpetuated these traditions.

Take Me to the Water

Take Me to the Water
Author:
Publisher: Dust to Digital
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Baptism
ISBN: 9780981734217

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Text by Luc Sante, Jim Linderman, Steven L. Ledbetter.

I Listen to the Wind that Obliterates My Traces

I Listen to the Wind that Obliterates My Traces
Author: Steve Roden
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Folk music
ISBN: 9780981734248

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Dust-to-Digital presents 150 music-related vernacular photographs paired with 51 songs, field recordings and sound effets on two compact discs. Spanning the lat 1800s to 1955, all of the materials used for this set come from the collection of acclaimed visual/sound artist Steve Roden.

Dust to Dust

Dust to Dust
Author: Allan Amanik
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2019-12-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1479800805

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A revealing look at how death and burial practices influence the living Dust to Dust offers a three-hundred-year history of Jewish life in New York, literally from the ground up. Taking Jewish cemeteries as its subject matter, it follows the ways that Jewish New Yorkers have planned for death and burial from their earliest arrival in New Amsterdam to the twentieth century. Allan Amanik charts a remarkable reciprocity among Jewish funerary provisions and the workings of family and communal life, tracing how financial and family concerns in death came to equal earlier priorities rooted in tradition and communal cohesion. At the same time, he shows how shifting emphases in death gave average Jewish families the ability to advocate for greater protections and entitlements such as widows’ benefits and funeral insurance. Amanik ultimately concludes that planning for life’s end helps to shape social systems in ways that often go unrecognized.

Opika Pende

Opika Pende
Author: Jonathan Ward
Publisher: Dust to Digital
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Folk music
ISBN: 9781938922251

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The tremendous variety of music that was pressed to shellac discs on the continent of Africa is truly astonishing. Popular songs, topical songs, work songs, comic songs, songs of worship, ritual, dance and praise--the sheer range of musical styles resists any easy categorization, just as African geography itself resists boundaries. Opika Pende: Africa at 78 rpm is a four-disc collection featuring 100 tracks taken from rare 78 rpm recordings of African music--from 1909 to the mid-1960s--none of which have ever been issued on CD until now. Across these 100 tracks, traditional music stands side by side with popular music as traditional culture coexists with so-called modernity. Pan-African in scope and wildly diverse, Opika Pende is a testament to the deep riches found in early recorded music across the continent. In 2013, this set was nominated for Best Historical Album by the Grammy Awards.