LOS ANGELES (JULY 10, 2019)—The GRAMMY Museum® Grant Program announced today that $200,000 in grants will be awarded to 15 recipients
in the United States to help facilitate a range of research on a
variety of subjects, as well as support a number of archiving and
preservation programs. Research projects include work on musical
anhedonia, musical training’s relationship to complex memories, and the
relationship between cognitive function and singing accuracy.
Preservation projects include the archiving of uncirculated John
Hartford jam tapes, 960 audio reels of Cajun and zydeco artists, and 221
rare interview recordings with African-American actors, performers,
composers, musicians, and scholars, among many other preservation
projects.
"The GRAMMY Museum Grant Program to date has awarded more than $7.5
million to more than 400 grantees," said Michael Sticka, Executive
Director of the GRAMMY Museum. "The work we help fund includes an
impressive array of projects that are at the forefront of exploring
music's beneficial intersection with science, and that maintain our
musical legacy for future generations. The initiatives announced today
exemplify the Museum's mission to uphold music's value in our lives and
shared culture."
Generously funded by the Recording Academy, the GRAMMY Museum Grant
Program provides funding annually to organizations and individuals to
support efforts that advance the archiving and preservation of the
recorded sound heritage of the Americas for future generations, in
addition to research projects related to the impact of music on the
human condition. In 2008, the Grant Program expanded its categories to
include assistance grants for individuals and small to mid-sized
organizations to aid collections held by individuals and organizations
that may not have access to the expertise needed to create a
preservation plan. The assistance planning process, which may include
inventorying and stabilizing a collection, articulates the steps to be
taken to ultimately archive recorded sound materials for future
generations.
The deadline each year for submitting letters of inquiry to the Grant Program is Oct. 15. Guidelines and the letter of inquiry form for the 2020 cycle will soon be available at www.grammymuseum.org.
Scientific Research Grantees
Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning—McGill University—Montreal
Awarded: $20,000
Caroline Palmer, Signy Sheldon, and Rebecca Scheurich of McGill
University will test people's memories for rich auditory detail in
real-world events. Brain activity of musically trained and untrained
individuals will be measured as they recall complex events. Findings
will address the link between musical training, imagery, and
autobiographical memory.
Northeastern University—Boston
Awarded: $20,000
Music is a rewarding social activity across human cultures, but recent
studies have identified a special population of people with musical
anhedonia, who feel no reward in response to music. This project will
identify the incidence and neural substrates of musical anhedonia, and
test the relationship between musical reward sensitivity and
difficulties with social bonding, which is characteristic in people with
autism spectrum disorders.
University at Buffalo—Buffalo, New York
Awarded: $20,000
Recent studies have found correlations between singing accuracy and
measures of general cognitive functioning: individuals' ability to form
auditory images and auditory short‐term memory capacity. This project
consists of two training studies designed to test whether there is an
actual causal relationship: Can improved imagery and/or memory lead to
more accurate singing, and can improved singing accuracy enhance imagery
and/or memory capacity?
Preservation Assistance Grantees
The Kitchen Sisters Productions—San Francisco
Awarded: $5,000
The goal of this project is to create a plan to inventory, archive,
preserve, and make publicly available the Kitchen Sisters Collection,
which includes some 7,000 hours of recordings of nearly 40 years of
interviews, oral histories, music and sound for the NPR series,
podcasts, projects, and stories. Funds will be used to hire a
professional to develop a catalog, plan for digitization, long-term
storage, back-up, and accessibility.
Percussive Arts Society—Indianapolis
Awarded: $5,000
The Percussive Arts Society (PAS) plans to inventory and assess
approximately 150 hours of music on 78s from the Edwin Gerhardt Marimba
Xylophone Collection in preparation for its subsequent preservation,
digitization and dissemination. Support will allow PAS to engage an
expert to help inventory this extensive collection of recordings and
prioritize items for preservation.
The House Foundation for the Arts, Inc—New York
Awarded: $5,000
As a steward of Meredith Monk’s legacy, the House will embark on the
Lineage Project to preserve, enhance, and maintain the integrity of
Monk’s artistic works and make such works available for the benefit of
the public. The House will publish an online database cataloging 50-plus
years of previously unavailable photographs, video, audio, and objects.
This resource will act as a centralized location for her archive and
support ongoing digitization and preservation efforts, providing
students, artists, curators, and the general public access to this rich
history.
Armenian Studies Program, California State University, Fresno—Fresno, California
Awarded: $5,000
This project will focus on the inventory and cataloging of nearly 1,500
recordings on 78-rpm discs from the Armenian-American diaspora. The
locally produced records document the early history of Armenians in the
United States. The collection represents the voices of musicians whose
social, economic, and political status forced them out of their
homeland. It was thus only in the emerging cosmopolitan American music
scene that most of these artists were first able to be heard.
Bluegrass Country Foundation—Washington, D.C.
Awarded: $5,000
The Bluegrass Country Foundation will identify, index and preserve
recordings of bluegrass music shows broadcast over the last 50 years at
WAMU-FM in Washington, D.C. These include programs featuring rare and
out-of-print recordings as well as interviews, concerts, and live studio
performances.
Preservation Implementation
San Francisco Symphony—San Francisco
Awarded: $12,000
The San Francisco Symphony will transfer to a digital format 118 live
recordings conducted by music director Michael Tilson Thomas, who will
be stepping down from his post in 2020. This comprehensive digital
collection will preserve the historic contributions Thomas made to the
modern orchestral repertoire during his exceptional 25-year tenure with
the San Francisco Symphony.
Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University—Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Awarded: $19,963
This project will digitize and catalog 573 cassettes of jam performances
from the John Hartford audio collection. A hit songwriter and
"newgrass" pioneer, Hartford obsessively documented his activities at
the epicenter of Nashville's music scene. These unique and uncirculated
recordings capture some of the most important bluegrass, country, and
folk musicians of the late-20th century in rare and informal settings.
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings—Washington, D.C,
Awarded: $20,000
This project will digitize roughly 960 audio reels and corresponding
materials—related to recordings of Cajun and zydeco artists—for
preservation, rights research, and online access.
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc.—Boston
Awarded: $11,518.50
The Boston Symphony Orchestra intends to transfer and preserve
endangered audio from 282 DATs that correspond to 273 Boston Pops
concerts held at Symphony Hall from 1992–2002. Project deliverables
include preservation master files, access copies on CD for public use in
the Archives Reading Room, MP3 files of the full concerts for internal
and individually approved remote reference, and an Encoded Archival
Description finding aid.
The City College of New York Libraries—New York
Awarded: $20,000
The City College of New York Libraries (CCNY Libraries) will digitize
and preserve more than 221 rare interview recordings—conducted mainly
between 1970 and 1974—with African-American actors, performers,
composers, musicians and scholars. Digital copies will be preserved in
CCNY's trusted digital repository and access copies will be made
available onsite at the CCNY Archives & Special Collections as well
as remotely accessible at CCNY and four partner institutions.
Roulette Intermedium, Inc.—Brooklyn, New York
Awarded: $20,000
The Roulette Archive is an initiative to preserve, restore, digitize,
and distribute 1,100 audio recordings on threatened PCM-F1 and DAT tapes
recorded between 1986-2002. These quality recordings are part of a
4,000-plus historic collection capturing significant achievements in
contemporary music dating back to 1980 and continuing to this day. The
concerts took place in Roulette's loft venue in New York City during a
fertile period of experimentation and discovery.
Tulane University—New Orleans
Awarded: $11,518.50
The Hogan Jazz Archive, part of Tulane University Special Collections,
will digitize and preserve 25 unique recordings from Vernon Winslow, the
first black disc jockey in New Orleans. The recordings offer a rare
chance to hear 1940s and 1950s radio continuity, including local
advertisements and conversations with local and itinerant musicians, and
provide insight into the dawn of segregated radio in the city. Once
digitized, they will be accessible to the public online.
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