Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings
- Dates:
- 1908-2000
- Abstract:
- Approximately 170,000 sound recordings made primarily in the United States and Mexico and issued on 78 rpm, 45 rpm, and 33â…“ rpm phonograph records, cassettes, and reel to reel master tapes.
- Extent:
- 170000 Sound Recordings
- Language:
- Spanish; Castilian .
Background
- Biographical / historical:
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The Frontera Collection was created by Chris Strachwitz, founder of Arhoolie Records, over a sixty-year period beginning around 1960. Strachwitz donated the collection to the Arhoolie Foundation in 1995. Digitization of the collection began in 2000 in collaboration with UCLA.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2024-09-28 21:29:10 +0000 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Access to the complete digitized collection is available courtesy of the UCLA Digital Library: https://frontera.library.ucla.edu/songs.
For information about the physical collection, please contact the Arhoolie Foundation.
- Location of this collection:
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10341 San Pablo Ave.El Cerrito, CA 94530, US
- Contact:
- (510) 525-7471