The Marr Sound Archives is an audiovisual archive, a part of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Miller Nichols Library.[1]
| Marr Sound Archives | |
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| 39°2′6.1″N 94°34′35.5″W / 39.035028°N 94.576528°W | |
| Location | 800 E 51st Street, Kansas City, Missouri, United States |
| Established | 1987 |
| Affiliation | Miller Nichols Library |
| Website | library |
The collection includes extensive holdings of jazz, blues, country and popular music; historic voices and authors reading their own works; vintage radio programs; classical and opera. The Marr holds a wide range of historic formats including LPs, 78s, 45s, cylinders, transcription discs, instantaneous-cut discs and open-reel tapes. The archives maintain sound recordings for a number of archival for collections shared with LaBudde Special Collections.[1][2]
The archives were created from a donation of 42,000 items by Olga and Gaylor Marr in 1987.[1] As of 2023, the archives hold over 400,000 recordings.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b c Komara, E.; Lee, P. (2004). The Blues Encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis. p. 605. ISBN 978-1-135-95831-2. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
- ^ Sturman, J. (2019). The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture. SAGE Publications. p. 4170. ISBN 978-1-5063-5337-1. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
- ^ "Marr Sound Archives". UMKC University Libraries. 10 November 2023. Retrieved 19 January 2024.