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In the 1950s and ‘60s, USIA shipped packets containing recordings, scores, and lectures about music to US Information Centers throughout the world. The Information Centers drew crowds with “concerts of recorded music” and scheduled weekly listening hours at which recordings would be played on request. The packets’ contents presented an attractive portrait of America’s ethnic and stylistic diversity, including jazz, classical, folk, musical theater, sacred and secular choral music, and popular songs. Classical composers included the well-known (Copland, Still, Babbitt, Barber, Antheil) and the now-obscure (Harrison Kerr, Jacob Avshalomov, Vittorio Giannini). I will play audio examples demonstrating the variety and interest of these recordings. Some of these LPs are still available, but most of them are now forgotten—remarkable, given that they were important enough to represent America just 50 years ago. I am in the process of finding the LPs and arranging to record some of the pieces of music that were never recorded before. I plan to build an online digital humanities project that makes this repertory accessible again. This project is significant because when historians today tell the story of 20th-century music, we discuss a few styles and composers; but the USIA’s record collection helps us recognize and understand how heterogeneous American musical practice really was. Knowing this music will make our histories more complete, as well as enrich our musical lives.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Video Editor"]},"value":{"en":["Nathan Georgitis"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eBased on newly declassified documents from the National Archives, this presentation explores a large body of music exported by the United States Information Agency (USIA). In the 1950s and \u0026lsquo;60s, USIA shipped packets containing recordings, scores, and lectures about music to US Information Centers throughout the world. The Information Centers drew crowds with \u0026ldquo;concerts of recorded music\u0026rdquo; and scheduled weekly listening hours at which recordings would be played on request. The packets\u0026rsquo; contents presented an attractive portrait of America\u0026rsquo;s ethnic and stylistic diversity, including jazz, classical, folk, musical theater, sacred and secular choral music, and popular songs. Classical composers included the well-known (Copland, Still, Babbitt, Barber, Antheil) and the now-obscure (Harrison Kerr, Jacob Avshalomov, Vittorio Giannini). I will play audio examples demonstrating the variety and interest of these recordings. Some of these LPs are still available, but most of them are now forgotten\u0026mdash;remarkable, given that they were important enough to represent America just 50 years ago. I am in the process of finding the LPs and arranging to record some of the pieces of music that were never recorded before. I plan to build an online digital humanities project that makes this repertory accessible again. This project is significant because when historians today tell the story of 20th-century music, we discuss a few styles and composers; but the USIA\u0026rsquo;s record collection helps us recognize and understand how heterogeneous American musical practice really was. Knowing this music will make our histories more complete, as well as enrich our musical lives.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections\u003c/p\u003e"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/019/original/ARSC_Full_Logo_RGB_K.jpg?1605438091","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/097/605/small/open-uri20200922-6764-184oybi_1600817307.jpg?1600802940","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1145/collection_resources/29735/file/97605","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 3 - open-uri20200922-6764-184oybi.mp4"]},"duration":1316.224,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/097/605/small/open-uri20200922-6764-184oybi_1600817307.jpg?1600802940","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1145/collection_resources/29735/file/97605/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1145/collection_resources/29735/file/97605/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-arsc.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/097/605/original/open-uri20200922-6764-184oybi.mp4?1600802900","type":"Video","format":"video/mp4","duration":1316.224,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1145/collection_resources/29735/file/97605","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[]},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1145/collection_resources/29735/file/255764","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 2 of 3 - ARSC_conf_2016_FoslerLussier_audio.mp3"]},"duration":1328.12556,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1145/collection_resources/29735/file/255764/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1145/collection_resources/29735/file/255764/content/2/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-arsc.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/255/764/original/ARSC_conf_2016_FoslerLussier_audio.mp3?1730751236","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mpeg","duration":1328.12556,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1145/collection_resources/29735/file/255764","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[]},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1145/collection_resources/29735/file/255763","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 3 of 3 - ARSC_conf_2016_FoslerLussier_QA_audio.mp3"]},"duration":695.57044,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1145/collection_resources/29735/file/255763/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1145/collection_resources/29735/file/255763/content/3/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-arsc.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/255/763/original/ARSC_conf_2016_FoslerLussier_QA_audio.mp3?1730751236","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mpeg","duration":695.57044,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1145/collection_resources/29735/file/255763","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[]}]}