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The Association for Recorded Sound Collections presents the following program from its 2011 ARSC Annual Conference at the Wilshire Grand Hotel, Los Angeles, California on Friday, May 12, 2011:

THE BLACK EUROPE REISSUE PROJECT
Presented by Dr. Rainer E. Lotz, Private Researcher, Germany

Recordings on phonograph cylinders, gramophone discs and films, with both still and moving images, featured people of African descent in Europe from the earliest years of the recording industry to immediately after the First World War. Present in Europe for two thousand years or more, the contribution of pioneering personalities on the modern mass media has not been noticed. Recognition is overdue. Music, spoken word or dance, from all styles, categories, languages and natal lands provide a lost but rich resource. Many artifacts may be lost forever, but this paper traces and analyzes the surviving evidence. The order of magnitude is the reissue of some 2,000 sound documents and films, documented in a fully illustrated book scheduled for publication by Bear Family Records in 2011.

THE ASSOCIATION FOR RECORDED SOUND COLLECTIONS (www.arsc-audio.org) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and study of sound recordings, in all genres of music and speech, in all formats, and from all periods. ARSC is unique in bringing together private individuals and institutional professionals—everyone with a serious interest in recorded sound.

Videographers: Michael and Leah Biel
Editor: Nathan Georgitis