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Sound recordings

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on all types of media used for the recording of sound including cylinders, analog discs, digital discs, films, tapes, and wires, as well as works about analog discs alone.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Phonograph Record Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2023-M-7-Phono
Scope and Contents Approximately 250 phonographic records, the majority of which are recordings of Cantonese (Yueju) operas on 10-inch shellac discs. The recordings were produced in the first half of the 20th century in China, England, Germany and the United States, on labels such as Beka, Columbia, Golden Star, Nam Sing and Victor. Another major group of recordings are of Chinese pop music and film soundtracks on 12-inch vinyl LPs from the 1950s to the 1980s and released in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and...
Dates: 1902 - 1986

Southern California Oral History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1979-M-1-SCOH
Abstract The Chinese Historical Society of Southern California (CHSSC) and the UCLA Asian Studies Center (AASC) conducted the Southern California Chinese American Oral History Project from 1978 to 1984. They collected 165 oral histories, from which transcripts, summaries, indices, and the book Linking Our Lives: Chinese American Women in Los Angeles were made. This collection contains approximately 1700 pages of transcripts and summaries, in English with small amounts...
Dates: 1916 - 2024; Majority of material found within 1978 - 1984