Marr Sound Archives | Collections

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The collection includes extensive holdings of jazz, blues, country and popular music; historic voices and authors reading their own works; vintage radio programs; classical and opera. The archives’ holds a wide range of historic formats including LPs, 78s, 45s, cylinders, transcription discs, instantaneous-cut discs and open-reel tapes. The archives maintain sound recordings for a number of archival for collections shared with Special Collections.

Archival Collections | The Marr Sound Archives houses a number of discrete, one of a kind collections, which can be a great resource for scholars.

Commercial Collections | The Marr Sound Archives catalogs our commercial collection of LPs and 78s and they can be found in the UMKC Library Catalog (MERLIN).

Digital Projects | The sound archives maintain a number of online exhibits that showcase historic recordings and archival collections. The audio files are served using RealAudio.