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Song Stories: Woody Guthrie’s “Dust Bowl Ballads”

Posted by: Brian McCurdy

Posted in: American Braille, American Composers, American Folklife Center, Audio, Audio Preservation, Blues, Braille, Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Braille Music, Folk Music, Folklore, Free Braille Music Scores, Guitar, Johnny Cash, Labor, Library of Congress, Music Composition, Music History and Appreciation, Musical instruments, NLS Music Section, NLS Online Catalog, Popular Music, Popular Music Lead Sheets, Smithsonian Folkways, Texas, Uncategorized, Vocal music, Voyager Catalog

IRENE is a digitizing machine that captures the audio information of grooves in a non-invasive manner through high resolution imaging. In the front of the picture is the machine that has a turntable with a laser over it. In the background is an enlarged photograph of the image of a recording's grooves as taken by IRENE. The grooves are vertical lines with some wave-shapes. The lines are represented in two shades of purple and separated by white lines in between.

American Music from A to Z in the NLS Music Collection: G is for Groove

Posted by: Juliette Appold

Posted in: Audio Preservation, Jazz, NLS Music Section, Piano Instruction, Piano Music, Uncategorized