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Media at the Music and Performing Arts Library

This exhibit was assembled in connection with the Music and Performing Arts Library’s first Open Media Stacks event in Fall, 2014. It features CDs, DVDs, LPs, and other media items from the library’s collection.

MPAL Media Collection Exhibit 1

In addition to several other CDs, DVDs, LPs, world music cassettes, and piano scrolls (Ride of the Valkyries and another featuring Eubie Blake), some of the items featured in the exhibit include:

CDs

  • The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings by Miles Davis & Gil Evans
  • The Silk Road: a Musical Caravan by Smithsonian Folkways
  • Druqks by Aphex Twin
  • Attack & Release by The Black Keys

DVDs

  • Thelonius Monk: Straight No Chaser
  • The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan live at the Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965
  • Leonard Bernstein – Omnibus: the historic TV broadcasts
  • The Spirit Moves: A history of black social dance on film, 1900-1986
  • Diamonds in the Rough: A Ugandan Hip Hop Revolution

LPs

  • Nectar of the Moon: Vichitra vina music of northern India
  • American Favorite Ballads by Pete Seeger
  • The Shining: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
  • Preflyte by the Byrds
  • Rare Hendrix by Jimi Hendrix

MPAL Media Collection Exhibit 2

MPAL Media Collection Exhibit 8

MPAL Media Collection Exhibit 3

MPAL Media Collection Exhibit 4

MPAL Media Collection Exhibit 5

MPAL Media Collection Exhibit 6

MPAL Media Collection Exhibit 7