http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/radio.php Cylinder radio is a monthly program featuring selections from the UCSB Library's online collection of over 6,000 digitized cylinder recordings. en-us Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:00:00 GMT http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/grammy.php UCSB's Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project has been awarded a $20,000 grant from the GRAMMY Foundation® to continue our digitization efforts. Read more about the grant on the site and a big thanks to the GRAMMY Foundation for supporting our project! Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT http://www.library.ucsb.edu/OBJID/Cylinder8565 Lots of activity lately here at CPDP headquarters. We added cylinder title number 8,000 to the database this afternoon, a 1908 recording of "Sylvia" by the piccolo player Frank Mazziotta released by U.S. Everlasting records. The observant will note that our call number for this recording is actually Cylinder 8565, but since alternate takes share bibliographic records, the number of titles in our database is 8,000 while the number of cylinders is atcually 8565. The recording isn't digitzed yet, but there will be more news about that later in the week. Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:29:00 GMT http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/incunabula.php Thanks to Los Angeles collector John Levin we have a great new cylinder radio program online featuring some of the rarest, earliest, and most fascinating recordings you are ever likely to encounter. Keep in mind these are not cylinders from UCSB's collection, but because we are the go-to site for early recordings John and the cylinder project staff are exploring ways in which we can share early recordings in private collections with a broader audience. Hopefully this will be the first batch of content like this. Mon, 5 Jan 2009 22:00:00 GMT http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?id=35425269097 Thanks to everybody who has friended us over the past couple of weeks. I have some vague plans on how to use Facebook to connect and communicate with our users, but I'd be interesting in hearing your ideas. For starters, I've posted an mp3 from from the site. I haven't listened to every cylinder that we've digitized, but I've listened to a lot of them. And this one is my favorite. It's a great song with some great banjo playing, and this soon to be 100 year old cylinder has great sound quality as well. What are your favorites? Let me know and perhaps I'll put some of them up here in the coming weeks. Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:00:00 GMT http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/newadditions-june2008.php Meredith Bak, a graduate student here at UCSB in Film and Media Studies has been digitizing newly added cylinders over the past few months. We are pleased to be able to add another 350 cylinders to the online collection. A complete list of the newly added cylinders is available at http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/newadditions-june2008.php. Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:00:00 GMT http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/wwi.php 90 Years ago today the United States Congress declared war on Germany, drawing the US into World War I. Thousands of songs were written about this bloody conflict, some to boost soldier morale, others to mourn losses, generate homefront support, or call for an end to the conflict. A new Cylinder Radio program features some of the American songs that characterized popular music during the war. Fri, 6 Apr 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/newadditions-march2007.php We brought back Noah Pollaczek, our ace digitizer, and he digitized 100 cylinders acquired since June 2006 which were added to the archive on March 16, 2007. A complete list of the cylinders is on the site. There are 300 more cylinders currently remaining to be digitized and new ones arriving every week. In case you were curious, it costs us about $25 to digitize each cylinder. Enjoy, and let us know what you think. Thu, 23 Mar 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/radio.php The cylinder radio programs have been offline because of technical problems. Josh installed a new Apple xServe which is now serving out the streaming radio shows as well as all the site's streaming content. Enjoy! Feel free to send us suggestions for new show topics. Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/browse.php It is entirely obvious to me now that we won't be adding new cylinder radio programs as often as we'd like. There is cataloging to be done, cylinders to get online, email to answer, website and server maintenance, and other improvments that need to be made to the site. Now that the grant is over and Noah has left (hi Noah!), we don't have the same number of staff to get things done these days. However, there is an improved browse feature at http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/browse.php that should make it easier for novices to explore the site. There is also a cylinder radio show in the works. It should be interesting. Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:00:00 GMT http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/history.php No new cylinder radio show just yet, but there is a new section on the website devoted to the history of the cylinder. Also, check out Jody Rosen's piece from this Sunday's New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/arts/music/19rose.html. Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:00:00 GMT http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/cakewalks.php The syncopated rhythms of cakewalks and rags presented here have had a lasting impact on American popular music. Curated by David Seubert, UC Santa Barbara Wed, 04 Jan 2006 12:00:00 GMT http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/deutschekomische.php German comic skits on Edison cylinders from between 1904-1909. Curated by Ursula Clarke and Noah Pollaczek, UC Santa Barbara. Wed, 21 Dec 2005 12:00:00 GMT http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/americanvaudeville.php Transport yourself back to the turn of the 20th century with a program featuring the top stars of vaudeville and the ones that should have been. Curated by Samuel Brylawski, UC Santa Barbara, Editor, Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings. Wed, 21 Dec 2005 12:00:00 GMT http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/blackartists.php Listen to pioneering recordings by African-American performers and compsers. Curated by Tim Brooks, author of Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919. (University of Illinois Press, 2004). Wed, 21 Dec 2005 12:00:00 GMT http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/moran.php Listen to operatic arias recorded on some of the rarest cylinders made, including Edison B series and French and German operatic cylinders. Curated by David Seubert, UC Santa Barbara. Wed, 21 Dec 2005 12:00:00 GMT http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/audiotheater.php Some of the most creative early recordings had a narrative element and are now known as "audio theater." This program presents twenty of the most interesting examples from the collection. Curated by Patrick Feaster, Indiana University. Wed, 21 Dec 2005 12:00:00 GMT http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/speeches.php Early historical speeches and recordings by Theodore Roosevelt, William Jennings Bryan, Ernest Shackleton, Sarah Bernhardt, William Howard Taft and others. Curated by David Seubert, UC Santa Barbara. Wed, 21 Dec 2005 12:00:00 GMT