University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA 93106-0001)
David Seubert (Project Director: July 2019 to present)
PW-269283-20
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
Preservation and Access
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[Grant products]
Totals:
$349,721 (approved)
$349,721 (awarded)
Grant period:
6/1/2020 – 5/31/2023
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The American Discography Project-Victor and Bluebird Records Access Initiative
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.
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