LOS ANGELES (June 16, 2020) — The GRAMMY Museum® Grant Program announced today that $200,000 in grants will be awarded to 13 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.
"The GRAMMY Museum Grant Program to date has awarded more than $7.5
million to more than 400 grantees," said Michael Sticka, President of
the GRAMMY Museum. "As a nonprofit cultural organization that relies on
annually applying for grants to help fund our education programs, we are
well apprised of how much of an impact an approved grant can make. The
work we help fund through our grants program, with the Recording Academy
as our partner, 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
Ryerson University— Toronto
Awarded: $20,000
Older adults often face formidable challenges to psychological and
social well-being, including depression and loneliness. Group singing
appears to mitigate some of these core challenges. This project will
assess the impact of group singing on the psychosocial wellbeing of
older adults. It will also clarify the neurobiological underpinnings of
these benefits. These findings may help promote non-pharmaceutical
methods for supporting well-being in older adults.
Music and Health Sciences Research Collaboratory, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto — Toronto
Awarded: $20,000
The purpose of this study is to investigate the prevalence of the
Val66Met BDNF polymorphism, a genetic mutation associated with deficits
in motor learning, in a sample of musicians versus the general
population. This will give insight into the roles of genes (the Val66Met
polymorphism) and music training on brain plasticity. Should musicians
with the polymorphism exist, this serves as possible evidence for
effective compensatory motor learning strategies.
Princeton University — Princeton, New Jersey
Awarded: $19,758
Previous work has revealed a hierarchy of brain regions that organize
acoustic input at multiple timescales, but less is known about how the
brain organizes information during the production of sound. Researchers
will ask expert pianists to play musical pieces, which will have been
structurally manipulated at different timescales, in the fMRI scanner.
This will enable the investigation of diverse questions regarding motor
planning, prediction, and learning in the context of naturalistic music
performance.
The Research Foundation for the SUNY, University at Albany — Albany, New York
Awarded: $19,320
Prior studies have found that speakers of a tone language (TL), in which
pitch changes alter word meaning, show advantages in music perception.
To control for culture and second language experience, University at
Albany researchers Ron Friedman and Lauren Clemens will examine this
effect with speakers of Copala Triqui, an indigenous Mexican TL, and
newly test whether TL use influences the perception of musical emotion.
Results will inform the development of training programs to enhance
linguistic and musical skills.
University of Oregon — Eugene, Oregon
Awarded: $20,000
This project explores the link between empathic social processing and
music emotion recognition. By examining neural activation that overlaps
when people make inferences about both social and musical stimuli, this
project will help to explain how music connects people to others through
neurobiological architecture that helps people understand and process
the social world. Results may inform novel treatment for people with
social cognitive impairment, such as autism.
Preservation Assistance Grantees
Experimental Sound Studio — Chicago
Awarded: $5,000
Experimental Sound Studio will create an integrated plan for
digitization and online dissemination of the Malachi Ritscher
Collection, which contains more than 4,000 live recordings documenting
the diverse underground music scene at the turn of the 20th century.
Texas Folklife — Austin, Texas
Awarded: $5,000
Texas Folklife has an extensive archive of audio recordings and related
material of Texas folk and traditional arts performances, field
recordings, and artist interviews dating from 1984. For this project,
they will identify potential project partners, update catalog records,
and develop a long range plan for digitization, long-term storage,
backup, widespread dissemination, and accessibility of the overall
collection.
Preservation Implementation
Freight & Salvage — Berkeley, California
Awarded: $20,000
From an existing archive of 2,500-plus recordings, this project will
focus on transferring 600 hours of recorded music by digitizing data
from formats at the greatest risk of deterioration and by showcasing the
influential traditional/roots musicians who performed at Freight &
Salvage coffeehouse (1969–1989). They will disseminate the digitized
archives through a partnering internet library that provides free access
to musicians, researchers, and the public.
The Kitchen Sisters Productions — San Francisco
Awarded: $11,461
The Kitchen Sisters will catalog, digitize, preserve, and ultimately
make publicly available the many music-centered stories and related
recorded material in the Kitchen Sisters Archive, a collection of some
7,000 hours of interviews, oral histories, music, and field recordings —
a deep archive of American story, music and cultural expression
gathered across 40 years from the Peabody Award-winning NPR series,
podcasts and stories.
Missouri State University Libraries— Springfield, Missouri
Awarded: $18,000
The Ozark Jubilee Digitization Project, a collaborative effort between
the Missouri State University Libraries and the UCLA Film &
Television Archive, will continue the processes of digitizing,
describing, and providing free public access to a series of rare
kinescopes of the Ozark Jubilee, a live, nationally broadcast, weekly
country music program on ABC-TV originating from Springfield, Missouri.
The program aired from January 1955 until September 1960.
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings — Washington, D.C.
Awarded: $20,000
Folkways Recordings will prepare and digitize approximately 400 audio
reels and corresponding materials related to Arhoolie Records’
recordings of blues artists for preservation and online archival access.
Roulette Intermedium — Brooklyn, New York
Awarded: $10,000
This project will preserve, restore, catalog, and prepare for
distribution and acquisition of 600 audio recordings captured between
2003–2011 at the legendary New York concert hall. These 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 archive mirrors the cultural and social transitions of
the last 40 years, documenting singular achievements in American music.
The University of Pittsburgh Library System — Pittsburgh
Awarded: $11,461
The University of Pittsburgh Library System (ULS) will digitize and
preserve 210 hours of performances from its Emerging Masters Collection,
which documents the University of Pittsburgh Concert Series. The
endangered recordings are currently housed on 395 open reel audio tapes.
Once transferred to digital files, the recordings will be openly
available to researchers worldwide on the ULS Digital Collections
website.
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