“World Records” celebrates the acquisition of the Mayrent Collection of Yiddish 78 rpm recordings by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Mills Music Library.
This conference and concert are scheduled for Friday and Saturday, March 15-16, at the UW-Madison campus.
The conference will focus on the important role this and other sound archives play in cultural and community continuity, as well as historical study, and will also include discussions of critical issues related to preservation, dissemination, technology, ownership, and copyright.
The Mayrent Collection contains more than 9,000 inventoried and digitally remastered Yiddish recordings made between 1901 and 1956. It includes Yiddish theater, popular and traditional music, cantorial songs, poetry, drama, and event ballads.
Placing the Mayrent Collection in historic context will be presentations on American vernacular musics (Scandihoovian, Polish, hillbilly, tamburitza, blues, and more), along with a full day of presentations related to collection management and access, digital folklore, and the legal standing of historical recordings and their use.
An opening night concert on Thursday, March 14, 7 p.m., will feature traditional musical genres found in the Mills Library sound collections. All events are free and open to the public.
For more information, contact UW-Madison’s Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, 608-890-4818; or see the website http://mayrentinstitute.wisc.edu/events/worldrecords.
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