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The British Library Sounds

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What is British Library Sounds

• Includes 50, 000 recordings and their associated documentaries

• Recordings come from all over the world

• Cover the entire range of recorded sound – music, drama, literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds.

• Divided in 9 categories as follows:

• Accents and dialects,

• Arts, Literature and Performance,

• Classical music,

• Oral history,

• Sound recording history,

• World and traditional music

• and finally Sound maps

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Accents and Dialects

• BBC Voices: conversations about language recorded by BBC Nations and Regions

• British Commonwealth Recordings –Recordings of WW1 British prisoners of war held in Germany

• Millenium Memory Bank: Oral history in Europe, recorded by BBC Local radio stations duing 1998 & 99

• Survey of English Dialects: Extratcts taken from recordings made between 1951 and 74

• UCL Phonetics Recordings: Poetry, dramatic performance, nursery rhymes, folktales and teaching materials for English

Arts, Literature and Performance

• African Writer’s Club: Radio programmes on Africa literary, social and cultural affairs produced in London for broadcast in Africa

• Art & Photography: Intimate encounters with the life and work of British painters, sculptors, photographers, designers and architects.

• Between Two Worlds: Poetry & translation: A wide range of poets who are bilingual or have English as a second language.

• Early spoken word recordings: English language recordings drawn from commercial sylinders and 78 rpm discs

• ICA Talks: Talks and discussions held at the ICA during the period 1982-1993, featuring leading writers, artists and film makers.

• ST Mary-le-Bow public debates from the 60s and 70s on social issues, featuring guests from the world of entertainment, business, politics and science.

• The Power of Caribbean Poetry: Readings, lectures and discussions

• Theatre Archive Project: A reinvestigation in British theatre history 1945-1968.

• Touch Radio: All the broadcasts from the pioneering station

Classical music

• BACH: All the pre-1957 recordings of the Orchestral suites, Brandenburg Concertos and keyboard Concertos.

• BEETHOVEN: Compare & Contrast performances of Beethoven’s string quartets, symphonies and concertos

• BRAHMS: Recordings of the symphonies, concertos and overtures made before 1957.

• Chamber Music: Performances include the Philharmonic String Quartet, the London .

• CHOPIN: Performances of all the major works.

• DEREK COLLIER COLLECTION: Recordings of the British Violinist at the BBC

• HAYDN: Pre-1957 recordings of the symphonies

• HUGH DAVIES: Experimental music.

• MOZART: Symphonies and Concertorsrecorded before 1957.

• ORAL HISTORY of GYLNDEBOURNE OPERA: Interviews with people connected to Gylndebourne Opera

• WILHELMJ CYLINDERS: Recordings of the Great Violinist

Environment and Nature

• A.R,Gregory Kenyan bird recording: Recordings from the most comprehensive archive of wildlife sounds from East Africa.

• Amphibians: A comprehensive collection of vocalisations from around the world.

• British Wildlife recordings: A selection of sound recordings of wildlife from around Britain.

• Early wildlife recordings: Pioneering wildlife sound recordings from the first half of the twentieth century.

• Interviews with wildlife sound recordists: A growing collection of interview with British wildlife sound recordists.

• Listen to Nature: Birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles and insects from all over the world.

• Sound Effects: From Victorian street scene to the sounds of World War Two.

• Soundscapes: This selection draws together industrial sound and natural soundscapes and wildlife sounds from around the globe.

• Water: Field recordings of various bodies of water from around the world.

• Weather: Field recordings of meteorological phenomena

Popular music

• Oral History of Jazz: Musicians, promoters and label owners reveal some of the less well known aspects of British Jazz.

• Skiffle recordings

• Touch radio: All the broadcasts from the pioneering station

Oral History

• Architecture: Oral history interviews with British architects and those in associated profession.

• Art & Photography: Intimate encounters with the life and works of British painters, sculptors, photographers, designers and architects.

• Branding & Design: Life story oral history interviews with people involved in British branding fashion and design industries.

• Disability Voices: Interviews that chart the experience of disabled party.

• Early spoken word recordings: English Language recordings drawn from commercial cylinders and 78 rpm discs. E.g. Archbishop Bourne’s speech on Education.

• George Ewart Evans Collection: Interviews and songs recorded by oral history pioneer George Ewart Evans between 1956 and 1977.

• History of the Common Cold Unit: The memories of those who worked at the Common Cold Unit from 1957 until it’s closure in 1990.

• Industry, Water, Steel and Energy: Oral history interviews documenting the lives and careers of those who worked in the UK Electricity, Water, Steel, Oil and Gas industries

• Jewish Survivors of the Holocaust from Jewish survivors living in Britain.

Sound recordings history

• Alan Blumlein recordings: Early recordings made by the pioneering sound engineer.

• Early record catalogues: Record catalogues from 1898 to 1926 of discs produced for the British markets.

• Oral history of recorded sound: Interviews with people involved in all areas of the recording industry.

• Playback and recording equipment: Over 400 images of devices, from phonographs to DAT players.

Contact

• Simone Ngozi Okolo

• [email protected]

• Ext.2666