RE: arsclist National Recording Registry: Nominations

["Farrington, Jim" <jfarrington@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To add to Bill's last note below, this is not a one-time process. We
anticipate an ongoing selection process for many years, perhaps
indefinitely, so even if something isn't chosen on the first cut it might
still make the Registry at some point in the future. Perhaps at some point
the Buddy Bolden cylinder will turn up (in one of Kurt's catalogs 8-) and it
too can be included.

Jim


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Klinger [mailto:klinger@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 12:01 PM
> To: ARSCLIST
> Subject: Re: arsclist National Recording Registry: Nominations
> 
> 
> Concerning the National Recording Registry, George 
> Brock-Nannestad wondered:
> 
> " - is it the physical item carrying the sound recording and requiring
> some kind of apparatus for its reproduction that is to be included,
> 
> OR
> 
>  - is it the sound recording proper, i.e. a certain number of minutes,
> seconds and decimals of sound (when reproduced at the correct
> speed), having the intended balance between high and low
> frequencies (when reproduced with the correct equalisation)."
> 
> George, I believe that the latter approach is intended.  Of 
> course, the
> identity of the source sound-carrier would be noted and 
> included among the
> pertinent preservation metadata.
> 
> ____________________
> 
> 
> George wrote:
> 
> "... one of the recordings that I would like to nominate is "only"
> distinguished by the fact that it was pressed in
> a particular foreign country (albeit for the US market), thereby
> reflecting that the US manufacturer was exteremely hard pressed
> (excuse the pun!) to get his records out. It thereby reflects
> materially on the legal and economical situation of this particular
> US manufacturer precisely in those turbulent times. It is hence a
> document of high evidential value, but not because of the recording
> as such. Any recording of this manufacturer subjected to this
> foreign manufacture would have the same value, but I have never
> come across any other records of this particular type. Does this
> record fulfil the criteria?"
> 
> Your example does seem to "inform or reflect life in the 
> United States," in
> a way that hasn't yet been specifically discussed by the 
> NRPB.  My guess is
> that the record meets the criteria, but I wonder whether it 
> will capture the
> attention of the board members, in comparison to the other nominated
> recordings.
> 
> ____________________
> 
> 
> Are these answers helpful?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Bill
> ___________________
> Bill Klinger
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