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Re: [ARSCLIST] Folkways Reissues
Well there you go.I was suggesting Bridge,because they had put out CDs,of LOC recordings.If someone is really interested in getting this project started,why not get busy on it?Perhaps Mr.Gioia could contact LOC.I thoiught they supposedly ran this here listserv,but it's very rare that I see anybody from there popping in here.
Roger
Charles Amirkhanian <charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: If you're dealing with spoken word recordings, I'd strongly recommend
getting Dana Gioia involved. He's the head of the NEA--a poet--who is
deeply concerned about preservation. His Save America's Treasures
program, funded the Other Minds project of preserving the KPFA Music
Department tapes. And he's contacted me about re-issuing LPs that
have settings for voice and piano of important American poets. I know
he would be supportive if he could be in this situation.
Charles Amirkhanian
>OK,then why not contact the folks at Bridge ? I'm sure you might
>convince them to put out a limited-run press of CDs,perhaps as a box
>set.They have experiences dealing with LOC.Anybody know anyone there
>?
>
>
> Roger
>
>Tom Fine wrote: Roger, I don't
>understand what you're talking about. I was referring to the LOC's
>own in-house
>recorded poetry readings, interviews and lectures. This stuff was
>all issued on LP by the LOC, circa
>60's and 70's mostly. That's all I'm talking about -- stuff they
>made and they should own the
>copyright to (if they don't, I questioned the wisdom of taxpayer
>money being spent to make the
>recordings or the LPs). Commercial stuff is covered by copyrights
>owned by whomever the current
>owner is. In the case of Caedmon, it's HarperCollins. In the case of
>Spoken Arts, I believe it's
>Yale University, and I believe Yale is making that material
>available for a reasonable price along
>the lines of the Smithsonian.
>
>Just to be clear, I don't have any problems with how Smithsonian did
>Folkways and Cook. What I was
>wanting is for the LOC to unlock and make available all of the audio
>it recorded and released in the
>LP era. Pricing similar to Folkways and Cook would be just fine.
>What I was strongly objecting to is
>that this material is unavailable, not that it might need to be sold
>at a nominal market cost.
>
>-- Tom Fine
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Roger and Allison Kulp"
>To:
>Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 5:47 PM
>Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Folkways Reissues
>
>
>> It depends on what you mean.There is quite a bit of Caedmon,and
>>Spoken Arts stuff out there.But I
>> must admit most of this stuff is on the same level of private-
>>issued psychedelic,punk,and
>> garage,except fewer people are interested in it. Spoken word is
>>not exactly a hot collector's
>> genre,so you're not going to see lovingly produced import CD
>>reissues on the stuff,like you would
>> for The Flat Earth Society,or private issue 70s funk 45s.
>>
>> I don't know how many private pressing,or small press run records
>>of readings,or speeches The LOC
>> still has.Has anyone done a good inventory/cataolguing of all
>>their holdings?They may have dumped
>> them,either in the landfill,or at a government auction,back in The
>>Reagan Administration.
>>
>> If anybody were truly interested in preserving these records,and
>>getting them out where anybody
>> can hear them,whenever they want,I would suggest you spend the
>>next few years,gathering the
>> records together,making the best digitizations you can,and then
>>putting them all up on a well
>> organized ".org" website.
>>
>>
>> Because the LOC,and nobody else is going to do it.
>>
>>
>> Roger
>>
>> Tom Fine wrote: The part about the LOC is so true! At taxpayer
>> expense, hundreds if not thousands of hours of poetry
>> and lectures were recorded and issued on LPs (hence there are
>>probably master tapes if not
>> proof-laquers somewhere). This stuff is moldering somewhere, not
>>available online and I was told
>> by
>> LOC staff there are no plans to ever make it available. So if you
>>don't have a scratchy LP bought
>> at
>> some library cast-off sale, you are SOL. This stuff the LOC
>>produced belongs to US, it was paid
>> for
>> by US, it should be available to US, forever (for a reasonable
>> production/media/duping/packaging/shipping fee, of course).
>>
>> -- Tom Fine
> >
>>
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