This collection contains material amassed by Erik Bauersfeld relating to his work with the Bay Area Radio Drama (BARD) organization dating from 1961-2016. Included are organizational records, reseach materials, correspondence, scripts and sound and moving image recordings of various BARD...
This collection contains photographs and ephemera amassed by photographer Lynn Beldner pertaining to the Punk and New Wave music scenes in the San Francisco area, dating from 1980-1984. Comprised primarily of music perfomances, artists covered include Iggy Pop, Dead Kennedys,...
This collection consists of Duo-Art piano rolls once curated by Josef Hofmann, pianist and director of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, from 1926 to 1938. His performances of Beethoven, Chopin, and his own compositions are included. Other notable...
This collection is comprised of Jazz interviews and features compiled by Reese Erlich dating from 1994-2017....
Open reel tape recordings of the "Annals of Jazz" radio program produced and hosted by historian and educator Richard Hadlock, broadcast on KCSM, San Mateo between 1982 and 1991. The interviews in the collection feature many Jazz luminaries at the...
Includes correspondence and research notes related to Hickling's discography of Lehmann performances; documemts and articles; and various sound recordings.
The Issei Oral History Project in Watsonville was created by historian Kazuko Nakane in preparation for the book Nothing Left in my Hands : The Issei of a Rural California Town, 1900-1942. Interviews were conducted by Nakane from 1978 to...
Open reel tapes by electronic music composer Richard Maxfield containing some of his most well-known works.
The collection contains the archives of the Monterey Jazz Festival from 1958 to the present. It primarily consists of unpublished recordings and videos of festival concerts, interviews and panel discussions in various formats, including sound tape reels, sound cassettes, videotapes,...
The collection focuses on the compositions and other documents created by Dexter Morrill during his career as a musician and composer. Items include correspedonce; manuscript scores; published scores, sketches and documentation for computer compositions; concert programs; concert tour documents; project...
The Archive of Recorded Sound's Non-Commercial Disc Collections consist of over 10,000 disc recordings from a variety of donors, the majority of which are either broadcast transcriptions or instantaneous recordings. None were ever available for sale to the general public,...
The Ragtime Machine was a weekly one-hour radio program about ragtime music, produced and hosted by David Reffkin and broadcast on the University of San Francisco's station KUSF. The collection contains all programs from 1981 to 2007, as well as...
The collection comprehensively covers the career of Turk Murphy and was assembled primarily by Jim Goggin and other members of the San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation. Similar sub-collections of materials about other traditional jazz musicians were added to this core...
The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Collection contains oral history interviews on audiocassettes and reel-to-reel tapes, transcripts (full and excerpts), photographs, and supplemental materials and related monographs.