AUTHOR: Matthew Barton

Matthew Barton has worked at the Library of Congress since 2003, first as a sound engineer and archivist in the American Folklife Center and the Motion Picture, Broadcast and Recorded Sound Division, and since 2008, as the Curator of Recorded Sound at the Library’s Packard Campus for Audiovisual Conservation in Culpeper, VA. From 1996 to 2003, he was the production coordinator of the Alan Lomax Collection compact disc series issued by Rounder Records. From 2016 to 2018, he served as president of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC). He has written extensively on sound recording and music for the Boston Globe, Street Beat magazine, the Folklife Center News, the Library of Congress Gazette, and the ARSC Journal.

Most Recent Posts

• Wyllis Cooper and His Three Men January 3rd, 2024
• NBC’s “Ubiquitous” Max Jordan – Reporter and Priest November 26th, 2023
• Tony Schwartz and the Voices of a Lost Neighborhood August 30th, 2023
• Film Night at the Pickford Theater: “The Maltese Falcon” (1941) March 15th, 2023
• Pelé: Athlete and Ambassador, 1940 – 2022 February 14th, 2023
• The Library of Congress Remembers Its Own: Larry Miller October 7th, 2022
• The Firesign Theatre at the Library of Congress September 7th, 2022
• Jim Metzner: Pulses and Other Sounds July 27th, 2022
• 100 Years Ago: President Warren G. Harding Recreates his 1921 World War I Memorial Speech May 25th, 2022