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Library of Congress Creates National Jukebox

The Library of Congress has teamed up with Sony Music Entertainment and University of California, Santa Barbara to create the largest public collection of historical recordings online....  read more

Library Of Congress to Preserve and Digitize 200,000 UMG Recordings

Over the past month, the Library of Congress has started working with Universal Music Group on archiving approximately 200,000 metal, glass and lacquer master discs dating back to a period between 1926-1948. According to their mutual agreement, Universal Musical Group will grant the Library of Congress ownership of these physical formats. These discs largely consist of American popular music recordings over that 22-year period, ranging from blues to jazz to early rock ‘n’ roll recordings....  read more

Five Tweets, Tweeters and Trending Topics That Will Be Anthologized In 2100

As we reported last week, the Library of Congress is planning on collecting every 140-character rant, musing and drunken Twitpic ever fumbled into cyberspace in its new Tweet Archive. We don’t know what such a thing will look like, but we imagine it’s not exactly the 2-D equivalent of the photo to the right—after all, the social networking site is less Wordsworthian daffodil poetry and more Kardashian menstrual overshares. But with our tweets being preserved for posterity, it’s inevitable that they will eventually be anthologized, or at least uploaded into Norton Anthology iBooks. Here then, are the Silicon Valley site’s...  read more

Just How, Exactly, is the Library of Congress Going to Decide Which Tweets to Archive?

Simple: They’re going to preserve all 55 million or so of them that are sent into cyberspace every day!...  read more

Alan Lomax Haitian Music Box Set Celebrated With NYC Party

Alan Lomax, along with his father John Lomax, is one of rock ‘n’ roll’s true unsung heroes. He wasn’t an ace guitar shredder or a multi-octave crooner; he didn’t really have much musical talent at all. Rather, Alan Lomax was a collector. Working for the Library of Congress in the late 1930’s and 1940’s, Lomax archived massive collections of folk music from around the world, most famously through his work recording early American folk and blues musicians like Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly....  read more