The American Discography Project-Victor and Bluebird Records Access Initiative

FAIN: PW-269283-20

University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA 93106-0001)
David Seubert (Project Director: July 2019 to present)

The expansion of the Discography of American Historical Recordings online database through the creation of 14,000 discographic records and the digitization of recordings on 8,500 disc sides produced by the Bluebird and Victor record labels, covering the period from the 1920s to 1948.

The American Discography Project-Victor and Bluebird Records Access Initiative is a project to add discographic data for 14,000 Victor and Bluebird recordings from the 1940s to UC Santa Barbara's Discography of American Historical Recordings (DAHR) as well as digitize 8,500 sides from 1925 through 1948 for free online access under a new agreement from Sony Music, the copyright holder. The project will provide access to an important body of little known works from one of the most fertile eras in American recording history.

Associated Products

Discography of American Historical Recordings (DAHR) (Web Resource)
Title: Discography of American Historical Recordings (DAHR)
Author: Brylawski, Sam
Author: Seubert, David
Abstract: The Discography of American Historical Recordings (DAHR) is a database of master recordings made by American record companies during the 78rpm era. It is part of the American Discography Project (ADP)—an initiative of the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Packard Humanities Institute that is edited by a team of researchers based at the UCSB Library. DAHR is an expansion of the Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings (EDVR) incorporating previously published discographic data licensed from various publishers, folding them into the search and display framework of DAHR. Documentation of the activities of the Victor Talking Machine Company and RCA Victor derives primarily from consultation of publications of the companies and original documents held in the archives of Sony Music Entertainment in New York City. DAHR entries describing recordings made by Columbia Records, the Berliner Gramophone Co., OKeh Records, Zonophone Records, Leeds & Catlin Records, and Decca are based on authoritative published discographies, supplemented with new research, examination of recordings in the collections of the University of California Santa Barbara Library, and submissions from record collectors and archives.
Year: 2008
Primary URL: https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php
Primary URL Description: Discography of American Historical Recordings (DAHR)

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