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Thursday 16 April 2015

News of a Music and American Oral History Project

Our professional association, IAML, has shared this news with us.  If you're interested in American music, music at one of America's prestige universities, or indeed oral history, then this might be right up your street!

Announcing the Music at MIT Oral History Collection Website!

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has a rich history of music. The Music at MIT Oral History Collection website provides access to in-depth interviews conducted 1999-2012 with MIT faculty, staff, and former students;and accounts of the professional careers and activities of these performers, conductors, composers, musical theorists, historians, acousticians, librarians, scientists, and engineers.

Also on offer is the facility to stream audio or video with concurrent transcripts; and downloadable audio files (mp3) and written transcripts (pdf)

Contact Forrest Larson, twiggy@mit.edu for further information.

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