Mystery Photo Contest: Nearing the End!
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Our Mystery Photo Contest is winding down, so we're giving readers one last crack at eight of our toughest-to-identify faces.
Posted in: Music, Mystery Photo Contest, Photos
Category: Music
More Jazz, More Mingus? The Library Has It
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library now has four more original scores by jazz musician Charles Mingus, adding to our collection of his life's work. They were donated by his widow, Sue Mingus.
Posted in: African American History, Music
Kermit! On Fame, Fortune and the 2020 National Recording Registry
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Kermit the Frog stops in to chat with Librarian Carla Hayden about his induction into the 2020 class of the National Recording Registry with his banjo-strumming ballad, "The Rainbow Connection" from 1979's "The Muppet Movie."
Posted in: Kids, Music, National Recording Registry, Performing Arts
The 2020 Class of the National Recording Registry: A New “Rhythm Nation”
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The 2020 class of the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress incudes hits from Janet Jackson, Nas, Jackson Browne, Flaco Jimenez, Jimmy Cliff, newscast recordings and one of the first recordings of an American voice, by Thomas Edison, in 1878,
Posted in: Music, National Recording Registry, Performing Arts