George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections Research Center
Fenwick Library, MS2FL 4400 University Dr. Fairfax, Virginia 22030 Business Number: 703-993-2220 Fax Number: 703-993-8911 speccoll@gmu.edu URL: https://scrc.gmu.edu
Kristen Korfitzen
Repository
George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections Research Center
Identification
C0130
Title
Music, theatre, and spoken word sound recordings collection 1949-1986
George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives
Language
English
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Abstract
This collection contains LP phonograph albums containing a variety of music, oral history, and musical scores. This box was
found unlabeled and might be associated with another collection.
This collection contains 31 LP phonograph albums including music, musical scores, plays, literature recordings and speech
recordings. The albums span a roughly 40 year period being released between 1949 and the late 1980s. Musical albums include:
A Tribute to Woodie Guthrie, Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits, Songs of the Depression, and I Will Win: Songs of the Wooblies.
Albums of recorded plays feature playwrights such as William Shakespeare and Arthur Miller. The collection also features original
cast recordings of musicals Winnie and Brigham!, a musical based on the life of Brigham Young and contains literary recordings
of the works of T.S. Elliot, Frederick Douglass and Lorraine Hansberry.
Several of the albums focus on content related to the Great Depression, unions, American labour, and Folk Music.