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Film, Video The 78 Project: Documenting Historic Sound in the Contemporary World

Event video

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Title

  • The 78 Project: Documenting Historic Sound in the Contemporary World

Summary

  • Since August 2011, Alex Steyermark and Lavinia Jones Wright have been traveling across the United States, recording contemporary musicians on a 1930s Presto disc recorder, and filming their journey for an ongoing web series and a recently completed feature film. During this event they screened the film, "The 78 Project Movie," answered questions about the project and their experiences, and demonstrated their process as they cut a record and film the recording live with special guest musicians from the Library of Congress.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • American Folklife Center, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2014-09-05.

Headings

  • -  Culture, Performing Arts
  • -  The 78 Project, contemporary musicians

Notes

  • -  Classification: Music and Books on Music.
  • -  Alex Steyermark, Lavinia Jones Wright.
  • -  Recorded on 2014-09-05.
  • -  Publishers.
  • -  Researchers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021689504

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Credit Line: Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. The 78 Project: Documenting Historic Sound in the Contemporary World. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-05, 2014. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689504/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & American Folklife Center, S. B. (2014) The 78 Project: Documenting Historic Sound in the Contemporary World. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-05. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689504/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. The 78 Project: Documenting Historic Sound in the Contemporary World. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-05, 2014. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021689504/>.