Cylinder Audio Archive Thematic Playlists

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Cylinder Audio Archive Thematic Playlists episodes

March 08, 2011 Cakewalks and Rags
The syncopated rhythms of cakewalks and rags presented here have had a lasting impact on American popular music.
32 min
March 08, 2011 Deutsche komische Zylinder (German Comic Cylinders)
German comic skits on Edison cylinders from between 1904-1909.
36 min
March 08, 2011 American Vaudeville
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.
1 hr 16 min
March 08, 2011 Early Black Artists and Composers
Listen to pioneering recordings by African-American performers and compsers.
46 min
March 08, 2011 Operatic Cylinders from the William R. Moran collection
Listen to operatic arias recorded on some of the rarest cylinders made, including Edison B series and French and German operatic cylinders.
2 hr 1 min
March 08, 2011 Pioneers of Audio Theater
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.
57 min
March 08, 2011 Historical Speeches on Edison Cylinders
Early historical speeches and recordings by Theodore Roosevelt, William Jennings Bryan, Ernest Shackleton, Sarah Bernhardt, William Howard Taft and others.
43 min

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An irregular series of thematic programs drawn from the Cylinder Audio Archive at the University of California, Santa Barbara.