{"id":5093,"date":"2025-07-11T15:27:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T15:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/?page_id=5093"},"modified":"2025-07-11T15:31:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T15:31:55","slug":"other-regional-music-projects-across-america","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/collections\/urbana-champaign-local-music-preservation-initiative\/other-regional-music-projects-across-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Regional Music Projects Across America"},"content":{"rendered":"

Other Resources for Urbana-Champaign Music Research<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Champaign County Historical Archives
\n<\/a><\/strong>at the\u00a0Urbana Free Library<\/a><\/p>\n

Holdings include many resources useful to researchers of the Urbana-Champaign\u00a0music community, including sound recordings, newspaper clippings, regional publications, oral histories, and personal papers, many of them\u00a0indexed by subject<\/a>\u00a0in their online database. \u00a0Of particular interest are well-indexed collections of the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette and the Psychedelic Boneyard, searchable by music genre and artist name.<\/p>\n

Jazz Threads<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0website<\/p>\n

A joint project of 40 North and the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Jazz Threads assembled documentation of the local jazz scene during 2002-2004, including material on artists and ensembles past and present. \u00a0The website provides perpetual access to this content, through oral history interviews, photographs, and\u00a0an extensive list of local music venues.<\/p>\n

Nature\u2019s Table<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0website<\/p>\n

A site maintained by\u00a0cujazz.org<\/a>, documenting the Nature\u2019s Table restaurant and music venue located in Urbana, Illinois from 1979-1991. \u00a0The site includes a menu, recipes, stories and interviews, and an extensive chronology of performances at the restaurant. \u00a0Sound recordings of some performances are available at\u00a0naturestable.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Josh Gottheil Collection, 1974-2009
\n<\/a><\/strong>at the\u00a0Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archives<\/a><\/p>\n

A collection of correspondence, ephemera, sound recordings, publications, and other materials documenting the life, career, and legacy of Josh Gottheil as a drummer and promoter in Urbana-Champaign.<\/p>\n

Documentation\u00a0Programs in Other Scenes<\/strong><\/h3>\n

University of North Carolina Southern Folklife Collection<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Collections related to Merge Records and other significant aspects of the Chapel Hill, North Carolina alternative rock community.<\/p>\n

Detroit Sound Conservancy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

A group dedicated to the documentation and preservation of the musical heritage of Detroit, Michigan.<\/p>\n

Louisville Underground Music Archive<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(LUMA)<\/p>\n

Documentation of the history and culture of the Louisville, Kentucky rock music scene from the 1970s to the present.<\/p>\n

NOLA HipHop Archive<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>at\u00a0Tulane University<\/a><\/p>\n

Collection of video interviews with\u00a0pioneering rap and bounce artists from New Orleans, Louisiana.<\/p>\n

North Carolina Music Flier Archive<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(1978-2014)<\/p>\n

A growing collection of digitized punk show flyers from all over North Carolina, arranged by city and venue.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Northeast Ohio Popular Music Archives<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(NEOPMA)
\nat the\u00a0Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archives<\/a><\/p>\n

Collections relating to local and regional popular music in and around Cleveland, Ohio.<\/p>\n

Golden Voice Recording Co.<\/strong><\/a>, Peoria, Illinois<\/p>\n

An online resource devoted to the impressive history of one of the first significant recording studios in central Illinois, featuring in-depth articles, photographs, and sound recordings. \u00a0Curated by Golden Voice co-owner Mary Ann Milam.<\/p>\n

DC Punk Archive<\/a><\/strong>
\nat the\u00a0District of Columbia Public Library<\/a><\/p>\n

Collecting, preserving, sharing, and engaging the public with materials documenting the punk rock community in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

Public Library\u00a0Programs in Other Scenes<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Volume<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0at\u00a0Denver Public Library<\/a><\/p>\n

This service allows Denver Public Library card holders to download and stream music from the library\u2019s collection of Colorado bands and musicians.<\/p>\n

Iowa City Public Library Local Music Project<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Iowa City Public Library licenses music from musicians in Johnson County, Iowa, and makes it available for their patrons to download.<\/p>\n

Yahara Music Library<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>at\u00a0Madison Public Library<\/a><\/p>\n

Streaming and download service for library cardholders featuring music from Madison, Wisconsin. \u00a0Artist and album pages feature reviews, biographies, and information about upcoming shows, links to the musicians\u2019 websites, social media, and online stores. \u00a0Technical elements of the Yahara Music Library have been released under an open source license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Other Resources for Urbana-Champaign Music Research Champaign County Historical Archives at the\u00a0Urbana Free Library Holdings include many resources useful to researchers of the Urbana-Champaign\u00a0music community, including sound recordings, newspaper clippings, regional publications, oral histories, and personal papers, many of them\u00a0indexed by subject\u00a0in their online database. \u00a0Of particular interest are well-indexed collections of the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"parent":91,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5093","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5094,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5093\/revisions\/5094"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}