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The archive supports research in 20th and 21st century history, politics, music, cultural studies, media studies, sociology and more. This period also saw the successful serialization of WolfeвЂ™s The Bonfire of the Vanities and the publication of one of the first national magazine features about the mystery of AIDS. Thompson, Patti Smith and Tom Wolfe.ДЇrom the 1980s, coverage expanded to encompass more entertainment topics, such as film and television, making it a leading resource for contemporary reporting and reviews pertaining to wider popular culture. Major journalists and authors have contributed including Hunter S.

It soon became a leading vehicle for rock and popular music journalism, shaping and chronicling new trends and movements.ДЄlso notable for its commitment to reporting on controversial topics that were largely absent from mainstream media, Rolling Stone was closely identified with a multifaceted 1960s-70s counterculture.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, J Researchers can now access 50. The following is a press release written by ProQuest: One of the most influential magazines of the 20th and 21st centuries, Rolling Stone provides a deep dive into music, film, culture and counterculture spanning decades. One of the most influential consumer magazines of the 20th and 21st centuries, it initially sought to reflect the cultural, social and political outlook of a generation of students and young adults. ProQuest Offers Entire Rolling Stone Digital Archive. The backfile of Rolling Stone covers the magazine from its launch in 1967 to the present. The project is funded by the Modern Endangered Archives Program at the UCLA Library and the Arcadia Fund, a charitable fund of philanthropists Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.Take a deep dive into popular music and wider popular culture with the complete backfile of one of the most influential 20thвЂ“21st-century magazines вЂњWe will be working with Russian sound technicians on this process which then requires them to be disassembled, rewound and played at different speeds to remove the interference caused by damage to the tapes, which stick together causing squealing sounds.вЂќ вЂњFor the most badly damaged tapes, extracting what they contain requires them to be baked in an oven but after that, you only get one chance at playing them before the recordings are lost. вЂњRussian cassette tapes from the Soviet era are particularly fragile and here the process of degradation has been speeded up by water leakages in the building, which have increased the humidity,вЂќ Anderson said. The collection provides educators, students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms. We hope this project will help to shine a light on this important collection, which is in great risk of disappearing and with it this intimate portrait of lifestyles.вЂќ[ Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the worlds musical and aural traditions. вЂњIt may rival the Smithsonian collection both in terms of its design and scope but remains little known. вЂњThis is the largest collection of Siberian indigenous voice recordings in the world,вЂќ said Dmitry Arzyutov, an honorary research fellow at the university and co-lead on the project. The archive of cassette tapes is currently housed at Pushkin House in St Petersburg (Image Source: Museum Association)

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