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British library's blast from the past.(Website overview)
Byline: daniel griffin
British Library's blast from the past
' site review
Over the past two years, the British Library, with financial support from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), has embarked on a large-scale digitisation of its sound archives, making the content freely available online for the further and higher education communities. In the process, many rare and unique files have appeared for the first time.
The 11 varied sound collections on
the website range in length and subject matter but broadly consist of in-the-field recordings such as painter David Rycroft's Africa and music academic Klaus Wachsmann's Uganda. The Soundscapes section reproduces noises from Dartmoor and a selection of wildlife.
Interviews make up the bulk of many of the collections, such as Art and Design, and the Oral History of Jazz in Britain. The Records and Record Players set focuses on contributors to developments in recording technology in the 20th century.
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