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RICHMOND, Va.RICHMOND, Va. — William Faulkner wrote detailed portraits of life in Mississippi’s fictional Yoknapatawpha County, often using long, winding sentences in densely packed paragraphs. Newly ...

“Mary Ann just put on your brand-new bonnet / Mary Ann wear the dress with shamrocks on it,” croons Billy Murray in a discernible brogue. The song, “Are you coming Out To-Night Mary Ann,” is an Irish ...

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden recently observed that the “sounds of the past enrich our understanding of the nation’s cultural history and our history in general.” For over 46 years, NPR has ...

(JNS) As of this month, the Jewish Museum Berlin is home to a collection of objects that is listed on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Memory of the World ...

The recording tape and records that contain much of America's audio heritage could become inaccessible in the next few decades, sound engineers warn. They are urging organizations responsible for ...

This week's StLJN Audio Archive post comes once again via the Flying Dutchman blog, which has preserved most of the output of that once vibrant, now defunct jazz imprint of the 1960s and 1970s.

For this edition of the Audio Archive, we continue this weekend's focus on the great baritone saxophonist Hamiet Bluiett by spotlighting Endangered Species, his recording debut as a leader. Originally ...

Journalists, especially those who collect sound and pictures, are hoarders. To dump raw material onto a hard drive is effortless, thoughtless. To delete it — what if you need something again some day?

Leading Bedouin scholar Clinton Bailey has amassed hundreds of hours of recordings about the nomadic society's poetry, history and legal system, in a career that began while jogging through Israel's ...