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Title : Ethnomusicology Archive: D. K. Wilgus Collection Browse By : Name Subject Type Description : The D.K. Wilgus Folksong Collection consists of approximately 8,000 commercially recorded albums of traditional music, song, and narrative as well as 1,000 field-recorded tapes. -
Title : Frontera Collection Browse By : Language Name Publisher Subject Type Description : Over twenty thousand 78 rpm recordings of Mexican vernacular music recorded between ca. 1905 and 1955, documenting many types of popular lyric songs, including the first recordings of corridos (narrative ballads on topics of the day), canciones, boleros, rancheras, and sones, as well as many types of instrumental music, including the first recordings of norteño and conjunto music, and many spoken performances, such as patriotic speeches and vernacular comedy skits. Also ca. fourteen thousand 45 rpm recordings from ca. 1955 to the 1990s. These include recordings by a wide range of small regional firms created to serve the musical interests of the growing immigrant population in the United States, especially along the border.