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GeezerVison is showing great78.archive.org — Discovery – The Great 78 Project

“The Great 78 Project will help today’s diverse student body engage with their histories through the many recordings of underrepresented communities in these collections. This collection is truly a time machine for culturally sensitive millennials.”
— Rick Prelinger, Associate Professor, Film & Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz

Primary metadata for each digitized recording is keyed in from the physical disc itself, and project participants are working to enhance this metadata with information about languages, genres and dates. In addition to thousands of recordings in English, we’ve digitized songs in many languages, including:

Polish
Bohemian
Lithuanian
Slovak
Russian
Czech
Hawaiian
Ukranian
Yiddish
Romani

Volunteers from the ARChive of Contemporary Music are determining genres and while you would expect things like Swing and Big Band, we’ve also found:

Yodeling
Ragtime
Novelty and Comedy
Hillbilly
Accordion, Harmonica, Ukelele and Marimba
Polka
Hawaiian
Rumba, Mambo and Cha Cha Cha
Gospel and Religious
Circus and Vaudeville

Or you can browse through the collection by decade or year:

1900-1909
1910-1919
1920-1929
1930-1939
1940-1949
1950-1959