Of possible interest, especially now for #BlackHistoryMonth. These are part of the #WPA recordings of former slaves (you know, back when the US Gov. did some seriously useful stuff).
The video store in Ashville (Orbit DVD) had a small collection of cassette tapes of cult movie soundtracks for sale, in VHS style clamshells, with DRM free digital downloads.
That's neat right?
But it's even cooler than that, because the digital download isn't just the soundtrack, it includes the movie.
VHS style clamshells with the soundtrack on cassette, and a DRM free digital download of the film? What a neat idea!
Of course, it's a bunch of weird old bad movies, but it's the only DRM free digital movie I've ever seen for sale in a store.
Lucy's taking you back to the stories of Katherine Mansfield tonight! Head on over to https://www.twitch.tv/chilliteracy to take your seat, and we'll see you there in about 20 minutes!
So behind with a lot of stuff because I've been busy with adding new artists, information, tracking official #SNS accounts, and fixing things over at #MusicBrainz.
MusicBrainz is a #PublicDomain database for anything related to #music. Artists, labels, tracks, albums, groups/bands, stage names, even instruments, and roles.
The database of MusicBrainz is actually used by a lot of other websites, one good example is the music tracker #LastFM and MusicBrainz sister project #ListenBrainz.
If you love to help the community, go check it out!
Or, if you've been building databases, but the info is behind non-open, non-sharing licenses, why not give your time and effort to a Public Domain database? Help the community, and tell your employer to use their database instead!
I've also taken the detailed copyright questionnaire that Penn librarians used to document copyright in serials we hold, and made it available for Wikipedians. Here's my lightning talk with details: https://everybodyslibraries.com/2024/01/16/free-the-sources/
Written by Lemuel Fowler in 1922 and recorded by multiple artists, the earliest being Trixie Smith and Lucille Hegamin. Fowler is a figure shrouded in much mystery, although he was quite prolific. Fowler recorded 57 songs and 23 player piano rolls from 1922 to 1932 before disappearing into obscurity.
This “Classic Female Blues” or “Vaudeville Blues” song plays with a recognizable folk blue structure, but predates the first known recording or publication of a folk blues track by several years. It’s cheeky and suggestive in a way that white musicians of the era were afraid to attempt.
#WikipediaDay in NYC has started with @fuzheado explaining how the Statue of Liberty was also crowdsourced (the stained glass just so happens to be in the other room)
It's a chilly Saturday evening, so why not settle in all warm and cosy, and come on over to hear the start of William Hope Hodgson's cosmic horror, "The House on the Borderland"! https://www.twitch.tv/chilliteracy
Un site vous permettant de trouver dans quelle bibliothèque près (ou loin) de chez vous se trouve ce bouquin rarissime que vous aimeriez bien consulter pour votre recherche de niche.
Vous avez décidé de dépoussiérer votre épinette ou de vous mettre au luth ou de rénover le trombone papy, mais le budget d'entretien de l'instrument a grevé vos économies ?