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Sound Recordings
The Center holds approximately 168,000 commercial sound recordings from
early cylinders to current compact discs, as well as 450 hours of archival recordings. The commercial collection of 78's, 45's, vinyl LPs, cassette tapes, and compact discs has been assembled to represent the full breadth of America's popular music recording history. Cataloging of the collection is underway but no records are available online.
Archival recordings available to researchers include a variety of historically significant materials:
- Instantaneous discs, which were the earliest home recording format, with recordings of arranger Ferde Grofé, John W. Work, III of Fisk University and fiddler Tommy Magness, among others.
- 147 hours of oral history recordings, including the Cusic Collection of interviews with southern gospel composers, publishers and singers, and the Gayle Dean Wardlow Collection of interviews with Mississippi Delta African-American musicians.
- 270 hours of taped lectures, performances and interviews, including lectures by music industry executives to students of the MTSU recording industry program, 21 hours of Alabama African-American religious singing, and 136 hours of tapes from Center programs, lectures, concerts and field work.
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- Sound Recordings
 - Wax Cylinders
- The Center holds over 168,000 sound recordings in a variety of formats.
Center for Popular Music
P.O. Box 41
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
615-898-2449
615-898-5829 (fax)
ctrpopmu@mtsu.edu
Room 140, Bragg Mass Communications Bldg.
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