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British Library Sounds (anteriormente llamado Archival Sound Recordings) es un servicio de la Biblioteca Británica que proporciona acceso gratuito en línea a una amplia variedad...

British Library Sounds (anteriormente llamado Archival Sound Recordings) es un servicio de la Biblioteca Británica que proporciona acceso gratuito en línea a una amplia variedad de grabaciones de voz, música y sonidos ambientales del Archivo Sonoro de la Biblioteca Británica . Cualquier persona con acceso a internet puede usar el servicio para buscar, explorar y escuchar 50 000 grabaciones digitalizadas. La reproducción y descarga de otras 22 000 grabaciones está disponible para los usuarios de Athens o Shibboleth en instituciones de educación superior y formación profesional del Reino Unido . El servicio se lanzó originalmente con financiación de Jisc .

Hay más de 20 000 horas de material de audio poco conocido disponible en línea. También se ofrecen imágenes y transcripciones de algunas grabaciones para enriquecer aún más el contenido.

Las grabaciones se pueden buscar por palabras clave o explorar por tipo de colección, fecha, idioma, nombre del intérprete y tema. Varias colecciones se pueden explorar mediante una interfaz de mapa.

Contenido disponible actualmente

El sitio web British Library Sounds abarca una amplia gama de contenidos:

Aspectos destacados seleccionados

Club de escritores africanos

Más de 250 horas de programas de radio sobre asuntos literarios, sociales y culturales africanos. Realizadas en el Centro de Transcripción de Londres , fundado por Dennis Duerden, [ 1 ] las grabaciones se emitieron por toda África y, en ocasiones, por el Servicio Mundial de la BBC . Esta colección, que abarca desde radioteatros hasta programas de actualidad, desde política hasta poesía, además de música, ofrece una visión de África a mediados de la década de 1960. Entre los colaboradores se encuentran Wole Soyinka , Dennis Brutus , Lenrie Peters , John Pepper Clark , Richard Rive , Raymond Kunene, Chinua Achebe , Kofi Awoonor , Cosmo Pieterse , Ama Ata Aidoo , Chris McGregor y The Blue Notes , Dudu Pukwana y Abdullah Ibrahim . [ 2 ]

Entrevistas sobre arte y diseño

Intimate encounters with the life and work of British painters, sculptors, photographers and architects. Interviewees include sculptors Elisabeth Frink and Eduardo Paolozzi; painters Terry Frost, Paula Rego and Michael Rothenstein; photographers Grace Robertson, Mari Mahr and Helen Chadwick; and architects Denys Lasdun, Ralph Erskine, Edward Hollamby and Patrick Gwynne.

David Rycroft Africa recordings

South African-born linguist and musicologist David Rycroft made many field trips to villages, townships and settlements around South Africa between the 1960s and '80s. Fascinated by the relationship between oral traditions and musical structure, Rycroft focused on unaccompanied choral singing, songs composed for indigenous musical instruments, and urban music.

Klaus Wachsmann Uganda recordings

Klaus Wachsmann made roughly 1,500 unique recordings of indigenous music in Uganda, most of which have never been published before. This collection dates from the late 1940s, when Wachsmann was curator of the Uganda Museum in Kampala, and includes field recordings and performances at the museum.

Oral history of jazz in Britain

An informal and anecdotal history of the music, venues and people that defined jazz in the UK. Through interviews with musicians, promoters and label owners, this collection focuses on some of the less well known aspects of British jazz – including the impact in Britain of overseas musicians, British developments in free improvisation in the 1960s, jazz outside London, and the contribution of women to the music.

Oral history of recorded sound

This teaching package reflects in sound, image and text the cultural and economic impact of developments in recording technology over the 20th century. It also features oral history interviews with significant figures in the worlds of music, radio, and the recording industry – with a focus on backroom innovators who have rarely enjoyed the limelight.

Sound Maps

A series of interactive maps allowing browsing and listening of accents and dialects, nature sounds, oral memories and traditional music.

Soundscapes

The word "soundscape" was coined by composer R. Murray Schafer to identify sounds that “describe a place, a sonic identity, a sonic memory, but always a sound that is pertinent to a place”[3] This selection draws together mechanical and industrial sounds (including transport and fog-horns), soundscapes of the natural world across continents, urban soundscapes, and wildlife sounds from around the globe.

St Mary-le-Bow public debates

At one o’clock every Tuesday lunchtime for fifteen years (1964–79), Joseph McCulloch, the Rector of St Mary-le-Bow Church in the City of London, invited a well-known public figure to debate an issue of the day. Popular among city workers, guests included Enoch Powell on race, Diana Rigg on single parentage, A. J. Ayer on moral responsibility, Edna O’Brien on fear, and Germaine Greer on free will.

Syliphone record label recordings from Guinea

More than 7,800 recordings of music from Guinea were originally released on the Syliphone record label. It includes many unique recordings not previously heard outside of Guinea. A large proportion has not been broadcast in more than 20 years, because it was politically sensitive and subject to censorship. The list of artists and musicians represented in the collection is a who's who of Guinean and African music. There are many unreleased recordings by major stars such as Kandia Sory Kouyaté, Bembeya Jazz National, Fodé Conté, and Kadé Diawara, in addition to hundreds of unreleased recordings by Guinea’s national and regional orchestras, troupes and ensembles. There is also a wealth of material by famous Guinean artists who, as they were never commercially recorded, are virtually unknown outside of Guinea, including Farba Tela (an inspiration to Ali Farka Touré), Mama Kanté, Binta Laaly Sow, Koubia Jazz, and Jeanne Macauley. The collection also features thousands of traditional songs from all of Guinea’s regions and ethnic groups.[4]

References

  1. Price, Derrick (30 January 2007). "Other lives | Obituary: Dennis Duerden". The Guardian.
  2. "African Writers' Club". British Library Sounds. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  3. Wagstaff, Gregg (2000), "From the Isles of Lewis and Harris", Soundscape, The Journal of Acoustic Ecology, 1/1, p. 19.
  4. Counsel, Graeme (12 de junio de 2013), "Syliphone: un antiguo sello discográfico de Guinea" , blog de archivos en peligro de extinción , Biblioteca Británica .
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