Popular/ Populist Musics

In the late 1970s, Arthur Freedman (b. 1957) began to record in the clubs of Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville. The resulting collection comprises over 720 hours of local rock and punk music performances, some with accompanying material such as set…

"In Praise of Learning" is one of three rare 78s of leftist songs recorded around the time of Hanns Eisler’s first visit to the United States in early 1935. With texts by Bertolt Brecht, the record featured the New Singers conducted by Lan Adomian,…

While the original version of this exhibition exclusively featured memorabilia from Rubén Blades's appearance at the 1989 Grammy Awards, such as the backstage pass included here, the online version also incorporates materials related to the album…

This vinyl record of Lauryn Hill's legendary 1998 album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is part of Classic Crates, a collaboration between the Hiphop Archive and Research Institute (HARI) and the Loeb Music Library assembling 200 albums based on…