Genre: Folk music - RPTF/ARSC Sound Collections Database Search Results

Description:: The Soviet All-Union Radio Committee Collection consists of excerpts of classical music, opera, and folk music on tape, all by Russian composers and performed by Russian musicians, from the late 1940s and early 50s. The tapes were used in radio programming by the All-Union Radio Committee (Vsesoiuznoe radio).
Content types:: Performed music
Formats:: Polyester open reel tape
Extent:: 108 reel tapes stored on hubs
Repository/Collector:: Stanford University, Archive of Recorded Sound

Description:: We have a massive collection of about 50,000 recordings on CD and vinyl, in addition to both digital and tape airchecks spanning several decades. We also have program guides, advertisements, and station produced publications.
Content types:: Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, and Text
Formats:: Open reel tape (unknown material), Digital Audio Tape (DAT), Photographic print, Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.), Pressed LP disc, Pressed 78rpm disc, Pressed 45rpm disc, Optical disc (Including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Analog audiocassette, MiniDisc, Text document, Printed brochure, and Printed magazine
Extent:: 26,500 optical discs; 18,300 pressed LP discs; 2,500 pressed 7" 45rpm discs
Repository/Collector:: WUVT-FM

Description:: The WTJU recorded music collections highlight a wide variety of rock, jazz, folk, world, and and classical music, with a focus on music not typically heard on commercial broadcast stations. WTJU also houses a largely haphazard variety of station documents, playlists, communications, flyers and other ephemera, and houses a good number of paintings by Steve Keene, a WTJU alum.
Content types:: Performed music, Still image, and Text
Formats:: Pressed LP disc, Pressed 45rpm disc, Optical disc, Analog audiocassette, Photographic print, Text document, and Other
Repository/Collector:: WTJU

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