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Local Centers/Global Sounds : Historic Recordings and Midwestern Musical Vernaculars

The Mills Music Library and the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures, along with many partners at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, are pleased to present a growing collection of unique, historic, regional and endangered sound recordings with related documentation.

These include 78-rpm recordings produced for immigrant, ethnic, and indigenous audiences by American companies in the first half of the 20th century; and more than 700 hours of original field and home recordings from the 1950s through the 1990s featuring the Upper Midwest's culturally diverse traditional musicians. Captured in kitchens and parlors, in churches and halls, amidst festivals and in professional studios, this online collection presents dance tunes, ballads, lyric songs, hymns, laments, political anthems, and recitations, together with extensive interviews of many performers.

The collection offers:

  • Full audio streams, whenever possible
  • Photographic images
  • Field notes
  • Tape Indexes
  • Translations of titles

There are many ways to find materials:  search by name, town or place, type of music, language, recording date, keywords, etc.

Local Centers/Global Sounds : Historic Recordings and Midwestern Musical Vernaculars

The Mills Music Library and the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures, along with many partners at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, are pleased to present a growing collection of unique, historic, regional and endangered sound recordings with related documentation. These include 78-rpm recordings produced for immigrant, ethnic, an…
Image Source: The Tomesh family sings and plays Czech songs during a feather-stripping party at the farm home of John and Rose Tomesh, July 31, 1990.

Local Centers/Global Sounds : Historic Recordings and Midwestern Musical VernacularsIn the Collection

  • Art Moilanen
  • Ed Piller plays concertina
  • Louis Webster
  • Noc w karczmie
  • Arthur Renard
  • On the waves of the Danube
  • Die Sterne der Heimat
  • Masqueraders at a Fasching dance
  • Mixed ContentOscar and Wallace Moe
  • Reino "Ray" Maki
  • Helmer Olavie Wintturi
  • Mixed ContentWoodland Indian fiddles and j…
  • Jerry Novak
  • Medley : Da nije ljubavi nebi svjeta bilo ; Vinca ca
  • Sen
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    This copyright is independent of any copyright on specific items within the collection. Because the University of Wisconsin Libraries generally do not own the rights to materials in these collections, please consult copyright or ownership information provided with individual items.

    Images, text, or other content downloaded from the collection may be freely used for non-profit educational and research purposes, or any other use falling within the purview of "Fair Use".

    In all other cases, please consult the terms provided with the item, or contact the Libraries.

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In the collection

  • 78-rpm Recordings Collection
  • Ach Ya!: German Music in WI
  • Arnold Munkel Collection
  • Bruce Bollerud Collection
  • Down Home Dairyland Collection
  • Ethnic Music in Northern WI & MI
  • Fiddlers contest scrapbook
  • Folksongs of Another America
  • German-American Music Project Collection
  • In Tune With Tradition : Wisconsin Folk Musical Instruments
  • John Berquist Slovenian Recordings Collection
  • Leizime Brusoe (1870 - 1949) Scrapbook
  • Leonard Finseth Collection
  • LeRoy Larson Collection
  • Polish Folk Song Collection

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The National Endowment for the Humanities has provided significant funding towards this project, with additional funds from the Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture and other grant partners. Their generous support ensures broad public access in perpetuity to rare sounds, stories, and images, expanding our understanding of Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest's varied and distinctive musical heritage.

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