George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections Research Center
Music, theatre, and spoken word sound recordings collection
George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections Research Center
C0130
/repositories/2/resources/170
1.25 Linear Feet
(4 boxes)
1949-1986
This collection contains LP phonograph albums containing a variety of music, oral history, and musical scores. This box was found unlabeled and might be associated with another collection.
English
Access Restrictions
There are no access restrictions.
Use Restrictions
The copyright and related rights status of this collection have not been evaluated. (See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/)
Preferred Citation
Music, Theatre, and Spoken Word Sound Recordings, Collection C0130, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Unknown.
Processing Information
Processed by Kristen Korfitzen in 2012. EAD markup completed by Kristen Korfitzen in 2012.
Historical Note
No information of donor or history is known at the present time.
Scope and Content
This collection contains 31 LP phonograph albums including music, musical scores, plays, literature recordings and speech recordings. The albums span a roughly 40 year period being released between 1949 and the late 1980s. Musical albums include: A Tribute to Woodie Guthrie, Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits, Songs of the Depression, and I Will Win: Songs of the Wooblies. Albums of recorded plays feature playwrights such as William Shakespeare and Arthur Miller. The collection also features original cast recordings of musicals Winnie and Brigham!, a musical based on the life of Brigham Young and contains literary recordings of the works of T.S. Elliot, Frederick Douglass and Lorraine Hansberry.
Several of the albums focus on content related to the Great Depression, unions, American labour, and Folk Music.
Related Materials
The Special Collections Research Center also holds the Japanese Phonograph collection.
Arrangement
The collection is not arranged in any specific order.
Technical Requirements
The Special Collections Research Center does not have the equipment necessary to vinyl records. Additional time and money may be required to access this material.
Music -- 20th century
Music
Acting
Depressions -- 1929
Protest songs -- United States
Sound recordings
Folk music -- United States
Live sound recordings
Musical Theater
Theater
Drama
Speeches, addresses, etc.
Labor unions
Literature
Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965
Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
A Tribute to Woody Guthrie Part Two /repositories/2/archival_objects/5488819721Noel Coward's Bitter Sweet /repositories/2/archival_objects/5488919611George Gershwin's Song Book and Other Music for Piano Solo /repositories/2/archival_objects/5489019861Scope and ContentsPreformed by Leonard Pennario.
Song Recital (Vol. 1) Lotte Lehmann, Soprano with Eno Balogh at the Piano/repositories/2/archival_objects/548911What if I am a Woman? Black Women's Speeches Narrated by Ruby Dee With an Introduction by Ossie Davis/repositories/2/archival_objects/5489219771Eubie Blake Song Hits/repositories/2/archival_objects/5489319761Speeches by Frederick Douglas read by Ossie Davis/repositories/2/archival_objects/5489419771Folk Music of the United States /repositories/2/archival_objects/5489519521William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew /repositories/2/archival_objects/5489619601Songs of the FDR Years/repositories/2/archival_objects/5489719791Scope and ContentsRoy Berkeley and Tim Woodbridge
Hard Times: The Story of the Depression in the Voices of those who Lived It. /repositories/2/archival_objects/5489819712Strange, Unusual, Evening: A Santa Barbara Story /repositories/2/archival_objects/5489919702Brigham! Original Soundtrack/repositories/2/archival_objects/5490019762Arthur Miller's After the Fall/repositories/2/archival_objects/5490119642Scope and ContentsThe Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center
Promised Valley: Suit for Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra from the Musical Play /repositories/2/archival_objects/5490219842Winnie: Original Cast Recording/repositories/2/archival_objects/5490319882Judith Anderson in Medea /repositories/2/archival_objects/5490419491Sir John Gielgud and Miss Irene Worth in Men and Women of Shakespeare/repositories/2/archival_objects/5490519672Only the Music: Opera Without Words/repositories/2/archival_objects/549062To be Young, Gifted and Black /repositories/2/archival_objects/5490719703Scope and ContentsLorraine Hansberry
Union Train /repositories/2/archival_objects/5490819753Scope and ContentsJoe Glazer
I Will Win: Songs of the Wobblies /repositories/2/archival_objects/5490919773Scope and ContentsJoe Glazer
The Cradle Will Rock/repositories/2/archival_objects/5491019643The Labour Stage Production: Pins and Needles /repositories/2/archival_objects/5491119623Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits /repositories/2/archival_objects/5491219673Living Shakespeare: Hamlet /repositories/2/archival_objects/5491319613Songs of the Depression/repositories/2/archival_objects/549143Negro Songs of Protest /repositories/2/archival_objects/5491519733Songs of Complaint and Protest /repositories/2/archival_objects/5491619773Twentieth Century Poetry in English: Contemporary Recordings of the Poets Reading Their Own Poems/repositories/2/archival_objects/5491719494Scope and ContentsT.S. Eliot
The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Country Music /repositories/2/archival_objects/5491819814