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New BARD additions, January 2022

Hokusai's “Laughing Demon,” depicts an evil looking, wrinkled woma laughing while crushing the head of a small person in her right, long-nailed hand, held up to her right ear. She points with her left long-nailed index finger to the little bleading head. The woman is boney, wrinkled, has long fingernails, brown hair, and small horns on her head.

Seeing Music: Gnomus and Baba Yaga from Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition”

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American Music from A to Z in the NLS Music Collection: H—Hazel Dickens

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Before Selena: Lydia Mendoza and More Queens of Tejano Music

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New BARD Additions: December 2021

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Playing Favorites

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Folk Music and Music Education: Zoltán Kodály

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

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Get Back! Beatles Materials in the NLS Collection