Descriptive Summary
Music, theatre, and spoken word sound recordings collection
C0130
George Mason University Special Collections & Archives
English
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.
George Mason University. Special Collections and Archives.
Historical Information
No information of donor or history is known.
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 labor, and Folk Music.
Access Restrictions
There are no access restrictions.
Processing Information
Processed by Kristen Korfitzen in 2012. EAD markup completed by Kristen Korfitzen in 2012.
Use Restrictions
Recordings may be protected by copyright laws.
Acquisition Information
Donor unknown.
Preferred Citation
Music, Theatre, and Spoken Word Sound Recordings, C0130, Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University Libraries.
Related Archival Materials note
Special Collections and Archives also holds the Japanese Phonograph collection.
Arrangement note
The collection is not arranged in any specific order.
Index Terms
Subjects:
Acting.
Folk music--United States
Great Depression
Music--20th century.
Music.
Protest songs--United States
Document Types:
Live sound recordings.
Sound recordings.
A Tribute to Woody Guthrie Part Two
1
1972
Noel Coward's Bitter Sweet
1
1961
George Gershwin's Song Book and Other Music for Piano Solo
1
1986
Scope and Contents note
Preformed by Leonard Pennario.
Song Recital (Vol. 1) Lotte Lehmann, Soprano with Eno Balogh at the Piano
1
What if I am a Woman? Black Women's Speeches Narrated by Ruby Dee With an Introduction by Ossie Davis
1
1977
Eubie Blake Song Hits
1
1976
Speeches by Frederick Douglas read by Ossie Davis
1
1977
Folk Music of the United States
1
1952
William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
1
1960
Songs of the FDR Years
1
1979
Scope and Contents note
Roy Berkeley and Tim Woodbridge
Hard Times: The Story of the Depression in the Voices of those who Lived It.
2
1971
Strange, Unusual, Evening: A Santa Barbara Story
2
1970
Brigham! Original Soundtrack
2
1976
Arthur Miller's After the Fall
2
1964
Scope and Contents note
The Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center
Promised Valley: Suit for Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra from the Musical Play
2
1984
Winnie: Original Cast Recording
2
1988
Judith Anderson in Medea
1
1949
Sir John Gielgud and Miss Irene Worth in Men and Women of Shakespeare
2
1967
Only the Music: Opera Without Words
2
To be Young, Gifted and Black
3
1970
Scope and Contents note
Lorraine Hansberry
Union Train
3
1975
Scope and Contents note
Joe Glazer
I Will Win: Songs of the Wobblies
3
1977
Scope and Contents note
Joe Glazer
The Cradle Will Rock
3
1964
The Labour Stage Production: Pins and Needles
3
1962
Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits
3
1967
Living Shakespeare: Hamlet
3
1961
Songs of the Depression
3
Negro Songs of Protest
3
1973
Songs of Complaint and Protest
3
1977
Twentieth Century Poetry in English: Contemporary Recordings of the Poets Reading Their Own Poems
4
1949
Scope and Contents note
T.S. Eliot
The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Country Music
4
1981