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They Will Survive: the 2015 National Recording Registry

Posted by: Pat Padua

This year’s selections for the National Recording Registry provide the makings of a typically eclectic mixtape that spans decades and genres. There really is something for everybody. Each year the National Recording Preservation Board advises the Librarian of Congress in the selection of 25 recordings that are “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” and are at …

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The Library of Congress Presents the Songs of America: “The Teddy Bear’s Picnic”

Posted by: Pat Padua

It is a long cultural journey from President Teddy Roosevelt to pop singer Anne Murray to art house film director Peter Greenaway. But this is just one of the paths you can take using the new web presentation  The Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America as a starting point. At the turn of …