Sound of Music
Exploring the Rich Musical History of Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest
By Jeanette Casey , Head of Mills Music Library glimpse of the rich musical heritage of
A Wisconsin , coming soon to a device near you !
UW – Madison ’ s Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Culture and Mills Music Library have been hard at work capturing metadata and digitally transferring the sounds of over 25 cultural traditions of Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest .
Now in the second year of a $ 250,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant , Local Centers , Global Sounds ( uwdc . library . wisc . edu / collections / localcenters ) went live in September 2017 with the first of fourteen digital collections .
These images are taken from some of the fabulous and rare material , dating from 1900 to the 1980s , which will be freely available through the UW Digital Collections . Presented together in an innovative manner , the audio , photos , and field notes from field recordings , home recordings , and early commercial recordings are linked by names , places , recording session , languages , types of music , and cultures .
Image : Otto and Iva Rindlisbacher , 1930s , Rice Lake , WI .
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