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The
Library of Congress Endangered Music Project
Music For The Gods
The Fahnestock South Sea
Expediton: Indonesia
The second release in Mickey Hart's Endangered Music
Project captures the shimmering music of Indonesia as it existed
in 1941, when the Fahnestock brothers set sail to record the
indigenous musics of Bali, Java, Madura and Arjasa with state-of-the-art
Presto disc-cutters. This collection is an extraordinary achievement
in the restoration of deteriorating cellulose-acetate discs,
and in the preservation of the elegant and haunting cultural
traditions of the Indonesian archipelago prior to its westernization
in WWII. This release includes some of the earliest recordings
of these peices. The collection of discs was transferred to
digital format and electronically cleaned by Sonic Solutions
for this release.
Produced by: Mickey Hart and Alan Jabbour
Edited by: Mickey Hart
Ethnomusicological consultant: Sue Carole DeVale
Library of Congress: Michael Donaldson - transfer engineer
Studio X: Tom Flye, Jeff Sterling - spatial processing
Club Front: Jeff Norman, Tom Flye - computer cleaning, equalization,
and mastering.
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PRESERVING
OUR MUSICAL HERITAAGE - A Musician's Outreach to Audio Engineers
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Mickey is appointed to the Library of Congress
American Folklife Center
Board of Trustees
Congressional Record: May 26, 1999 (Senate)
[Page S6153]
From the Congressional Record Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:cr26my99-199]
[[Page S6153]]
APPOINTMENTS The PRESIDING
OFFICER. The Chair, on behalf of the President pro tempore,
pursuant to Public Law 94-201, as amended by Public Law 105-
275, appoints the following individuals as members of the
Board of Trustees of the American Folklife Center of the Library
of Congress: Janet L. Brown, of South Dakota, and Mickey Hart,
of California.
ÊMESSAGE FROM THE SENATE
A message from the Senate by Mr. Lundregan, one of its clerks,
announced that the Senate had passed without amendment bills
of the House of the following titles:
H.R. 1034. An act to declare a portion of the James River
and Kanawha Canal in Richmond, Virginia, to be nonnavigable
waters of the United States for purposes of title 46, United
States Code, and the other maritime laws of the United States.
H.R. 1121. An act to designate the Federal building and United
States courthouse located at 18 Greenville Street in Newman,
Georgia, as the "Lewis R. Morgan Federal Building and United
States Courthouse".
The message also announced that pursuant to Public Law 94-201,
as amended by Public Law 105-275, the Chair, on behalf of
the President pro tempore, appoints the following individuals
as members of the Board of Trustees of the American Folklife
Center of the Library of Congress.
-Janet L. Brown, of South Dakota; and Mickey Hart, of California.
To learn more about the American Folklife Center at the Library
of Congress CLICK
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Mickey
Hart presents the Ralph J. Gleason Award in the Great Hall
of the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building Washington,
DC. Dec. 3. 2002
The REX FOUNDATION, the non-profit, charitable organization
established in 1983 by friends and members of the Grateful
Dead has designated the Save Our Sounds Zuni Storytelling
Collection preservation project of the American Folklife Center
to receive the $10,000 Ralph J. Gleason Award. Center director,
Peggy Bulger will receive this award on behalf of the American
Folklife Centers Save Our Sounds team.
This award was established
in 1986 to recognize outstanding contributions to culture,
and is named in memory of the pioneering jazz and pop music
journalist Ralph J. Gleason (1917-1975) who was a major figure
in the advancement of creative music in America. The foundation
is proud to present this award to Save Our Sounds given the
importance of the Zuni Storytelling Collection to our culture.
Mickey Hart, Rex Foundation board member, trustee of the American
Folklife Center and Save Our Sounds Leadership Committee member,
has noted the significance of being able to preserve these
endangered recordings so that they will be permanently available
to researchers, musicologists and avid fans of traditional
music and story. |
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