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Sound recordings.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Discs, tapes, filaments, or other media on which sound has been recorded.

Found in 68 Collections and/or Records:

Aberdeen City Art Gallery and Museums Oral History Audio Collection.

 Collection
Identifier: UNLS029
Scope and Contents

This collection of oral history recordings covers a wide range of topics from around Aberdeen. Major themes include World War Two, fishing, employment, childhood, Torry, and Old Aberdeen.

Dates: 1984-2004.

Analogue sound and moving image media., 1957-2000.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.113950 Box 7(1)-(11)
Scope and Contents From the Record Group: Includes slides, transparencies and photographs of artworks of Alasdair Gray and some of his friends and contemporaries, as well as audiovisual and digital material. The photo albums of images of Hillhead and the west end of Glasgow were likely collected to act as source materials for the Hillhead SPT subway mural.Many of the slides, transparencies and photographs found here were collated for use in 'A life in pictures' (Canongate, 2009), and some were previously deposited with...
Dates: 1957-2000.

Assorted papers of Janet Paisley, including examples of her poetry, plays, short stories and monologues; with papers relating to her interest in the Scots language, and the history of Scotland., 1990-2012, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.14151 Box 2(1)-(9)
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This is a box list of the papers of Janet Paisley, as received by the Library. No attempt has been made currently to review the order of the papers, to date them or to otherwise interpret them. The aim of the box list is to facilitate access in advance of any fuller arrangement and description.

Dates: 1990-2012, undated.

Audio recording of an interview with Esther Breitenbach on Scottish feminist magazines for the Scottish Magazines Network, released in podcast form.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14489
Scope and Contents

Interview with Dr Esther Breitenbach on the print cultures of Scottish feminism, focusing on her work with the Scottish Women's Liberation Journal (1977-78) and MsPrint (1978-81). The interviewers were Scott Hames of the University of Stirling and Rachael Alexander of the University of Strathclyde.

The recording was released as part of a series of podcast interviews with Scottish magazine editors, writers, and publishers by the AHRC-funded Scottish Magazines Network.

Dates: 16 April 2021.

CD containing a recording of the opening monologue of 'The comedy of Fleck', by Alasdair Gray., 1 April 2011.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13416/54
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Literary papers of Alasdair Gray, including ledgers and notebooks used for journal entries, drafts of letters and poems, working notes and illustrations. Literary papers and correspondence include material relating to 'A life in pictures' (Canongate, 2010) and 'Every short story' (Canongate, 2012). The collection of CDs and DVDs includes scans and drafts for these works as well as 'A Gray play book' (Luath, 2009).There is also a small collection of printed material, mostly...
Dates: 1 April 2011.

Digital archive of Don Paterson, with two notebooks.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13339
Scope and Contents Since 2000, Don Paterson has done much of his writing directly onto his Apple Mac (and subsequent models), and his digital archive appears to contain most of his work – in diverse fields - back to that point. The development of the poems are charted through multiple drafts as he hones a work down to the essence. The prose, some of which seems to form the raw material for his collections of aphorism, is occasionally written at such speed that there is no attempt to correct typos or even spell...
Dates: 1995-2011

Duncan Morison Audio Collection, Leabharlannan nan Eilean Siar / Western Isles Library Service (WILS).

 Series
Identifier: UNLS010
Scope and Contents

Coarse groove shellac discs which are part of the Duncan Morison collection held in Stornaway by the Western Isles Library Service.

Duncan Morison was a celebrated musican from Harris and Lewis, Western Isles. These recordings are of Morison performing a variety of folk material, including works written or arranged by himself.

Dates: Publication: 1929-1946.

Fife Archives oral history audio collection.

 Collection
Identifier: UNLS041
Scope and Contents

A collection of oral history material with a focus on two particular groups: the Thornton Ladies Oral History Group; and the Thornton Railwaymen.

Dates: 1993-1995.

Files of the Gude Cause project, relating to sound recordings., Undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13293/222-228
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Electronic archive, digital images, sound and video recordings, and related ephemera of the Gude Cause project, 2008-2010. The project’s main objective was to celebrate the centenary of the Women’s Social and Political Union procession which took place in Edinburgh on 10 October 1909. Furthermore, in the light of a report published before the 2007 Scottish Parliament Election, Gude Cause sought to reenergize women’s participation in Scottish political life.The archive charts the...
Dates: Undated.