Hartford Business: Music archive with 3 million recordings picks CT as permanent home. “The Archive of Contemporary Music, a nonprofit repository of more than 3 million sound recordings that was forced out of New York City by soaring rents, has purchased a commercial building in Ridgefield where it plans to open a public archive and cultural destination by 2028.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/06/hartford-business-music-archive-with-3-million-recordings-picks-ct-as-permanent-home/#musicscholarship — Public Fediverse posts
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Calling all undergraduate musicians! $1,000 scholarship available through Dr. James Morales Award. Showcase your musical passion and potential by Jan 15, 2026. Support your dreams in music education. #MusicScholarship #StudentOpportunity
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Focus Taiwan: Taiwan, France, Austria launch Indigenous Tao music archive project. “A joint initiative by Taiwan, France and Austria will preserve and publish a collection of ancient songs recorded on Orchid Island of the Tao people, an Indigenous Taiwanese community, the Taiwan Music Institute (TMI) announced Wednesday.”
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Southeastern Louisiana University: Library of Congress to preserve Southeastern radio show. “The Rock School Special Collection features more than 900 episodes from the long-running music history radio series Rock School, produced by Southeastern’s radio station 90.9 The Lion (formerly known as KSLU). Since 2007, the show has aired weekly, exploring the stories behind iconic songs, […]
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The Reggae Museum Foundation: Introducing The Reggae Museum Foundation: Where Reggae and Dancehall History Lives. “To protect and promote this powerful legacy, The Reggae Museum Foundation is launching thereggaemuseumfoundation.org — a nonprofit organization with a mission to preserve the history, empower the culture, and educate future generations about the global impact of reggae and […]
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University of North Texas: Tim Owens Jazz and Broadcast Collection Digitized by a Generous Grant by The Recording Academy’s GRAMMY Museum Grants Program . “Thanks to a generous grant by The Recording Academy’s GRAMMY Museum Grants Program, the UNT Music Library is proud to debut a wealth of jazz history through the Tim Owens Jazz and Broadcast Collection. This newly digitized collection […]
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Middle Tennessee State University: World’s largest punk archive to find new home at MTSU’s Center for Popular Music. “The world’s largest collection of punk records — the iconic Maximum Rocknroll, or MRR, archive — is relocating from the Bay Area in California to Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The archive includes an estimated 60,000 vinyl records, photos, zines and documents spanning […]
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Memphis Commercial Appeal: Stax Museum unveils digital version of Bob Abrahamian’s vast soul music collection . “The vast collection of music and interviews by noted Chicago record collector, disc jockey and oral historian Bob Abrahamian is now available digitally, via the Stax Museum of American Soul Music.”
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Broadway World: SFJAZZ Unveils Public Access to Historical Archive. “SFJAZZ has revealed public access to the SFJAZZ Historical Archive, an expansive collection of more than 2,000 recordings from 1983–2012, showcasing world premieres, unique commissions, panel discussions, pre-concert talks, TV & radio interviews, and more, all from the years before the opening of the standalone SFJAZZ […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/15/broadway-world-sfjazz-unveils-public-access-to-historical-archive/
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Certainly a niche scholarly topic about #klezmer but the Klezmer Institute put up a page about the project I've been working on a bit this year. It's still basically in the exploratory stage but it's aiming to develop an informed framework to try and publish some of the #JewishMusic found in the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine.
https://klezmerinstitute.org/kiselgof-makonovetsky-scholarly-editions/
#MusicScholarship #MusicHistory #MusicManuscripts #Yiddish