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2. WFCR Radio Broadcast Collection, 1954-1987. ca.5,000 reel-to-reel records with a few cassettes (462 lin. feet)
- Description:
- The WFCR Collection contains nearly 4,500 reel to reel recordings of locally-produced radio programs, reflecting over fifty years of the cultural and intellectual life of western Massachusetts. Drawing upon the talents of the faculty and students of the Five Colleges (Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and UMass Amherst), the collection offers a remarkable breadth of content, ranging from public affairs to community and national news, cultural programming, childrens programming, news and current events, scholarly lectures, classical music, and jazz.
- Content types:
- Sounds and Other
- Formats:
- Reel-to-reel and Digital tape (DAT, DCC)
- Extent:
- 462 linear feet
- Repository/Collector:
- UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives
- Online finding aid:
- View on scua.library.umass.edu
3. The American Revolution Documentary Collection, ca.1968-1974
- Description:
- The American Revolution collection includes hundreds of hours of recordings from WBCN during the period 1968-1974, along with posters, ephemera, videos, oral histories, and other associated materials. The audio and video content has been digitized by our partners, Lichtenstein Creative Media, and will be made available to the public through our digital repository. Materials are currently in the process of being transferred to UMass.
- Content types:
- Sounds and Other
- Extent:
- Hundreds of hours
- Repository/Collector:
- UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives
4. Black Mass Communications Project Collection, ca.1970-1985.
- Description:
- The BCMP collection consists of many dozens of reel to reel audiotapes of radio broadcasts aired over WMUA during the 1970s and early 1980s by and for the universitys African American community. Included is a range of locally-produced public affairs, cultural, and music programming, with some content licensed from around the country. A few of the tapes are associated with the Five Colleges National Public Radio affiliate, WFCR.
- Content types:
- Sounds and Other
- Extent:
- 300 recordings
- Repository/Collector:
- UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives
- Online finding aid:
- View on scua.library.umass.edu
5. James A. Freeman Broadcast Radio Collection
- Description:
- A professor of English at UMass Amherst, James A. Freeman is a scholar of seventeenth century British literature who has compiled an impressively eclectic array of publications and research projects. Educated at Amherst College (AB 1956) and the University of Minnesota (PhD 1968), Freeman joined the faculty in the English Department at UMass shortly after completing his doctorate. He has published on topics ranging from Latin and Greek poets to Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, Tennyson, James Agee, Donald Duck, 17th century regicides, and 1930s radio. He has also served as a regular contributor and editor for the Association for Gravestone Studies Quarterly. The Freeman collection consists of many hundreds of cassette tapes of radio broadcasts from the 1930s through early 1950s, reflecting the culture of commercial radio during its golden age. The collection includes representatives of most of the major genres, including comedy, drama, suspense and mystery, soap operas, and westerns. There is some depth popular programs such as Amos and Andy, the Great Gildersleeve, Philip Marlowe, and Nero Wolfe, but the collection also includes less common and short-lived shows.
- Content types:
- Spoken word
- Formats:
- Analog audiocassette
- Extent:
- 27 linear feet
- Repository/Collector:
- UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives
- Online finding aid:
- View on scua.library.umass.edu
6. Local Rural Life Audiotape Collection
- Description:
- Audiotape recordings of interviews conducted with members of the Pioneer Valley community for a public radio program. Titles of the shows that aired include: "Portrait of a Farm Woman," "Hadley: the Portrait of an Endangered Town," Keeping Rural Businesses in Business," and "Shepherds, Bumpkins and Farmers’ Daughters."
- Content types:
- Spoken word
- Formats:
- Analog audiocassette
- Extent:
- 0.25 linear feet
- Repository/Collector:
- UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives
- Online finding aid:
- View on scua.library.umass.edu
7. Bill Duesing Collection
- Description:
- A pioneer in organic agriculture in New England, Bill Duesing has been as an environmental educator, writer, artist, and lecturer over for four decades. After graduating from Yale University (1964), Duesing worked as a Cooperative Extension agent before turning to organic principles in the early 1970s. Emphasizing sustainability and greater local food sufficiency, he has been instrumental in developing organic standards for gardening and land care and he has served as both founding president and later executive director of the Northeast Organic Farming Association Connecticut and president of the NOFA Interstate Council. During the 1990s, Duesing produced two radio shows, "Living on the Earth" (WSHU) and "The Politics of Food" (WPKN), and he is author of (1993). The Duesing collection consists of transcripts of his radio show, "Living on the Earth" (1990-2000) and fourteen recordings of "The Politics of Food," which was broadcast monthly over WPKN (89.5 FM) in Bridgeport in 1997-1998. Each half hour segment of "Politics" included news, a fifteen minute interview, recipes, and tips, with interviewees including Mel Bristol, Jac Smit, Vincent Kay, John Wargo, Hugh Joseph, Joseph Kiefer, Julie Rawson, Michael Sligh, Kathy Lawrence, Lee Warren, and Elizabeth Henderson.
- Content types:
- Spoken word
- Formats:
- Polyester open reel tape
- Extent:
- 14 items
- Repository/Collector:
- UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives
- Online finding aid:
- View on scua.library.umass.edu
8. Bill Cosby Radio Program Collection
- Description:
- "The Bill Cosby Radio Program" was a daily syndicated radio series of roughly 5-minute comedy inserts by Cosby and produced by Frank Buxton (who also served as the show’s announcer and comedic "straight man"). Along with sound man Gene Twombly, Cosby and Buxton improvised the episodes, which were syndicated to more than 200 top-40 radio stations around the nation on transcription discs by The Coca-Cola Company and distributed by McCann-Erikson (Coke’s ad agency). The show marked the beginning of Cosby’s long association with Coca-Cola and was the debut of many characters from Cosby’s comedy. This collection features twelve radio broadcast transcription discs (one 12-inch disc and eleven 16-inch discs) of "The Bill Cosby Radio Program" containing programs #21-130 (1968 Jan 29-Jun 24) and programs #141-145 (1968 Jul 15). The disc labels contain the original program description and art.
- Content types:
- Spoken word
- Formats:
- Pressed LP disc
- Extent:
- 12 items
- Repository/Collector:
- UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives
- Online finding aid:
- View on scua.library.umass.edu
9. Black Mass Communications Project Collection
- Description:
- The Black Mass Communications Project was founded as an educational and informational outlet for Black students at UMass Amherst in 1968 and authorized in the following year as a Registered Student Organization. Over the years, BCMP played varied roles on campus, hosting cultural events, lectures, workshops, and social gatherings as to help keep black music alive. Many of its early members were also affiliated with the student radio station WMUA, and throughout the 1970s, the organization played a prominent role in providing programming to the station, offering programming highlighting African American music and current affairs. The BCMP collection consists of many dozens of reel to reel audiotapes of radio broadcasts aired over WMUA during the 1970s and early 1980s by and for the university’s African American community. Included is a range of locally-produced public affairs, cultural, and music programming, with some content licensed from around the country. A few of the tapes are associated with the Five College’s National Public Radio affiliate, WFCR.
- Content types:
- Spoken word
- Formats:
- Polyester open reel tape
- Extent:
- 15 linear feet
- Repository/Collector:
- UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives
- Online finding aid:
- View on scua.library.umass.edu
10. WFCR Radio Broadcast Collection
- Description:
- The first public radio station in western New England, WFCR Five College Radio has provided a mix of high quality, locally-produced and nationally syndicated programming since May 1961. In 2012, the station reached over 175,000 listeners per week, with a mix of classical and jazz music, news, and entertainment. The WFCR Collection contains nearly 4,500 reel to reel recordings of locally-produced radio programs, reflecting over fifty years of the cultural and intellectual life of western Massachusetts. Drawing upon the talents of the faculty and students of the Five Colleges (Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and UMass Amherst), the collection offers a remarkable breadth of content, ranging from public affairs to community and national news, cultural programming, children's programming, news and current events, scholarly lectures, classical music, and jazz.
- Content types:
- Performed music, Sounds (Other than music & language), and Spoken word
- Formats:
- Analog audiocassette and Polyester open reel tape
- Extent:
- 462 linear feet
- Repository/Collector:
- UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives
- Online finding aid:
- View on scua.library.umass.edu