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Transcription Center Interviews with African Writers audio collection.
- Title
- Transcription Center Interviews with African Writers audio collection.
- Publication
- [1972]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Audio | Use in library | Sc MIRS Transcription 1972 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
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- Description
- 108 audiocassettes
- Summary
- Transcription Center Interviews with African Writers audio collection consists of 108 audio recordings with African, African American, and West Indian writers, artists, scholars, politicians, musicians, and others. Headed by Dennis Duerden, the London-based Transcription Center (1962-1977) was a cultural organization which recorded radio programs on topics related to African literature, art, history, politics, and culture for sale, distribution, and broadcast in newly independent African countries, the Caribbean, and elsewhere in the world. It was later revealed the Transcription Center was funded by the CIA.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Note
- Transcription Center Interviews with African Writers audio collection consists of 108 audio recordings with African, African American, and West Indian writers, artists, scholars, politicians, musicians, and others. The London-based Transcription Center (1962-1977), also known as Transcription Feature Service, was a cultural organization headed by Dennis Duerden. Duerden was a British academic who taught in Nigeria, and a former BBC employee. The Transcription Centre recorded radio programs on topics related to African literature, art, history, politics, and culture for sale, distribution, and broadcast in newly independent African countries, the Caribbean, and elsewhere in the world. The collection includes interviews with African, African American, and West Indian writers, artists, musicians, scholars, and politicians on a variety of topics related to African literature, history, culture, politics and government, and relevant topics of the times. The collection also includes discussions, review pieces and comments, performances, which are referred to as radio plays, readings of poetry and extracts from novels and plays, feature programs, and recorded music. Additionally, there are audio recordings in Swahili and Hausa of special programs, and translated plays by African writers.
- OCLC
- 1418761449
- Title
- Transcription Center Interviews with African Writers audio collection.
- Publisher
- [1972]
- Type of Content
- spoken word
- Type of Medium
- audio
- Type of Carrier
- audiocassette
- Added Author
- Transcription Center (U.S.) creator.Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.