Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience – Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School— Boston

Awarded: $19,848

Children with ADHD display vulnerabilities in rhythm perception and motor production that interfere with everyday activities. This project will characterize behavioral and neurophysiological profiles of auditory-perceptual difficulties in pediatric ADHD and their associations with motor performance. Findings have the potential to inform the individualized treatment of auditory-motor difficulties in pediatric ADHD, including a music-based intervention.

New York University — New York

Awarded: $19,953

Increasing use of smart devices and social media among teenagers has led to concerns regarding their impact on mental health and cognition. This project aims to use digital art-based interventions (music, visual arts) to transform adolescent social media usage into stimulating activities, to mitigate negative effects of excessive ‘passive’ use of these platforms. We hypothesize that these will promote plasticity in brain networks previously described as impaired by social media overuse.

Northwestern University — Chicago

Awarded: $20,000

This project will examine the use of singing and breathwork as an intervention for mitigating stress and increasing the psychological and social well-being of children globally. Using biomedical sensors, psychological measures and behavioral analysis to holistically evaluate effects, the goal is to improve understanding around and provide evidence for how music can serve as an accessible, low-cost response to mental health concerns across diverse cultural contexts.

University of Toronto — Mississauga, Ontario

Awarded: $20,000

When words are put to song, they are neurally tracked more accurately than spoken words, but no studies have related neural tracking to real-world outcomes like comprehension. Using mobile electroencephalography (EEG) in the classroom, this project will determine how neural tracking of song and speech relates to comprehension, intelligibility and memory. The results will inform basic science, classroom instruction and interventions for individuals with dyslexia.

Colin Morgan — Sedro-Woolley, Washington

Awarded: $5,000

This project will implement the archive of Wadada Leo Smith, an established and well known creative musician, composer and trumpet player. An early member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and one of the leading forces in music and education since the 1960s, Mr. Smith has advanced a wide variety of styles and techniques in the contemporary arena. The archive will be a definitive repository of Mr. Smith’s work in music.

Painted Bride Art Center, as fiscal sponsor for Philadelphia Jazz Legacy Project — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Awarded: $5,000

The Philadelphia Jazz Legacy Project, through its fiscal sponsor Painted Bride Art Center, will plan the digitization and dissemination of 77 interviews with Philadelphia jazz musicians. Conducted from the early 1980s to early 2020s, the interviews are a treasure trove of jazz history, documenting the lives and careers of both world-famous and locally based Philadelphia jazz musicians.

Regan Sommer McCoy — New York, New York

Awarded: $5,000

The Mixtape Museum will begin planning, assessment and preparation to archive and preserve its recorded sound collections. These recordings contain some of the earliest sounds of hip-hop and one-of-a-kind mixtapes by fans and practitioners. The goal is to make these recordings available for research and use by the public.

Rico Washington — New York, New York

Awarded: $5,000

This project will preserve the sound recordings of Johnnie Mae Matthews, an influential African American entrepreneur in Detroit’s music industry who shaped the careers of future stars such as the Temptations, Diana Ross and Motown mogul Berry Gordy. By digitizing the master tapes of her solo recordings and her record label catalog, this project corrects the erasure of African American women’s contributions, highlighting their vital role in shaping music history.

Cape Breton University, Beaton Institute — Sydney, Nova Scotia

Awarded: $16,699

Founded in 1949, the Rodeo Records/Banff Collection is the most comprehensive example of significant regional and national Canadian commercial recordings in existence. This project will complete the digitization of at-risk master recordings and 78 rpm records, improve preservation methods for the physical collection, and provide greater online access for researchers.

Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum — Nashville, Tennessee

Awarded: $20,000

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum will assess, catalog, re-house, and make accessible a collection of approximately 8,160 radio transcription discs containing historically significant recordings. Select recordings from the collection will then be prioritized for digitization in the second phase of the project, based on preservation needs. The collection features interviews and performances with a variety of country music artists.

East Tennessee State University — Johnson City, Tennessee

Awarded: $20,000

The Archives of Appalachia at ETSU will clean and digitize 246 recordings from the Folk Festival of the Smokies in Cosby, Tennesee (1967-1999) and the Grayson County Old-Time Fiddlers’ Convention in Independence, Virginia (1968-1979). These recordings contain unique performances that highlight old-time and traditional Appalachian music.

Kronos Performing Arts Association — San Francisco, California

Awarded: $12,500

This project will preserve and provide public access to content from the Kronos Hour and Radio Kronos broadcasts (1984-1991). Distributed by American Public Media, the programs feature recordings of new work by Kronos Quartet and guest artists, along with interviews of many prominent musicians and composers. The collection captures a unique view of the late 20th century cultural landscape across many musical genres.

University of Iowa Libraries — Iowa City, Iowa

Awarded: $11,000

The University of Iowa Libraries will digitize, preserve, transcribe, and translate Czech music and recitations on cylinder dating from 1903-1908 from two labels: Ed. Jedlička and Columbia. The Jedlička recordings constitute some of the earliest recordings made for a specific ethnic group, and include music, poetry, stories, and comedy. The Columbia recordings are rare European issues of Czech music and comedy.

University of North Texas — Denton, Texas

Awarded: $20,000

This project will digitally preserve an estimated 150 hours of interviews, conducted or collected by former NPR host and producer Tim Owens. The collection includes major jazz artists including Dizzy Gillespie, Percy Heath, Hampton Hawes, Milt Jackson, Arif Mardin, Tony Bennett, Jay McShann, and others. Once digitized, these items will be preserved in and accessible via the UNT Digital Library.

UC San Diego — La Jolla, Calif.

Awarded: $20,000

How can we use music to reduce conflict? This project designs and tests a novel music-based intervention to counter dehumanization of marginalized groups, leveraging the finding that learning about others’ musicality leads us to judge others more sensitive, intelligent and wrong to harm. Using a randomized controlled trial and a pre-post design, researchers test whether learning about the musicality of marginalized individuals can reduce dehumanization.

University of South Florida — Tampa, Fla.

Awarded: $20,000

Older musicians show enhanced auditory memory and verbal fluency; however, the mechanisms underlying these benefits are unknown. This project aims to: (i) assess older musicians’ ability to minimize overlap between similar sound object representation, a process known as “pattern separation,” and (ii) examine how pattern separation relates to verbal fluency and auditory memory. Understanding training benefits will foster novel music programs for adults.

Temple University— Philadelphia, Pa.

Awarded: $20,000

This project will test a new music-based measure for profoundly brain-damaged children who are minimally responsive. A correlational study will test the reliability, validity and diagnostic capability of the Music therapy Sensory Instrument for Cognition, Consciousness and Awareness (MuSICCA). This first standardized measure for pediatric profound brain injury will significantly impact patients, families and professionals, and establish tools for future research.

University of Tennessee — Memphis, Tenn.

Awarded: $15,000

For cochlear implant (CI) users, the degraded CI signal makes it difficult for them to enjoy music, potentially impacting quality of life. This project will create a validated tool, the Survey of Music Enjoyment, that can be used by clinicians and researchers to investigate factors leading to, and neural substrates linked with, music enjoyment. Using this tool, researchers will examine differences between prelingually and postlingually deafened CI users.

Windsor University, Drummer Mechanics & Ergonomics Research Laboratory (DRUMMER Lab)— Windsor, Ontario

Awarded: $20,000

Drum set educators play a vital role in promoting healthy behaviors in their students, yet few drummers report having been trained in the prevention of playing-related musculoskeletal disorders (PRMDs). This project will explore the reasons why drum set educators do (or do not) teach PRMD prevention. The results will guide the creation of resources to empower instructors to develop or enhance this aspect of their curricula.

Philadelphia Jazz Legacy Project— Philadelphia, Pa.

Awarded: $5,000

The Philadelphia Jazz Legacy Project, through its fiscal sponsor, Ars Nova Workshop, will assess, prioritize and plan the digitization, preservation and dissemination of recordings and archival materials surveyed in the Philadelphia Jazz Legacy Project, the broader goal of which is to establish a Philadelphia Jazz Archives to document and preserve the city’s extraordinary jazz history.

The Apollo Theater Foundation, Inc. — New York

Awarded: $20,000

The Frank Schiffman Apollo Theater Collection in the archives of the National Museum of American History (NMAH) consists of unique artifacts (photographs, business records and press clippings) spanning the theater’s opening through the mid-1970s. The Apollo aims to further collaborate with NMAH to digitize these materials, fill in gaps in the Apollo’s digital archive, and preserve these priceless objects for future generations of music enthusiasts.

Arhoolie Foundation — El Cerrito, Calif.

Awarded: $20,000

The Arhoolie Foundation will digitize Chris Strachwitz rare recordings of performances, festivals and concerts from 1950 to 2000. The recordings cover genres such as blues, Cajun, zydeco, gospel, jazz, Tejano/Norteño, sacred steel, Klezmer, tamburitza, old-time, and other tradition-based styles; while artists include Lightnin’ Hopkins, Big Mama Thornton, Fred McDowell, Flaco Jiménez, Ry Cooder, Lydia Mendoza, Lowell Fulson, BeauSoleil, Tampa Red, Reverend Gary Davis, Rose Maddox, and others.

Berkeley Society for the Preservation of Traditional Music dba Freight & Salvage — Berkeley, Calif.

Awarded: $20,000

The Freight & Salvage will continue preservation of performance recordings dated 1969 to 1989. This phase represents 30 percent of 2,500 recordings featuring historic musicianship collected over their 52-year history. Finalizing analog formats, this project will begin transferring recordings dated 1989 to 1999 to include early digital formats, e.g., DAT and CDR.

Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum— Nashville, Tenn.

Awarded: $20,000

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum will assess, catalog and rehouse approximately 1,250 (1-sided) 11″ shellac and vinyl discs that comprise its essential body of test pressings donated by pioneering record producer, A&R man and Country Music Hall of Fame member Arthur “Uncle Art” Satherley. The Collection comprises rare, fragile and historically significant recordings – including a number of potentially unissued recordings.

University of California, Los Angeles — Los Angeles

Awarded: $20,000

UCLA Film & Television Archive will digitize, restore and preserve three rare classic Hollywood musical short subjects: Tall Tales (1940), Lucky Millinder And His Orchestra (1946) and Sweet Shoe (1937). These three shorts serve as critical examples of early race integration in the genre, and include historically significant performances with rare appearances from influential African American figures.

University of Toronto Scarborough— Toronto, Ontario

Awarded: $20,000

Support from the GRAMMY Museum will enable the preservation of the largest known cache of field recordings of traditional French-Canadian instrumental music from Quebec. From 1965 to 1975, folklorist Jean Trudel recorded musicians at festivals, concerts, dances, and in their own homes. The grantee will digitize 107 audio and 103 video recordings made by Trudel and designated for inclusion in the National Collection of the Canadian Museum of History.

Center for Andean Ethnomusicology—Lima, Peru
To restore and make accessible three early collections of Peruvian field recordings from the late 1950s housed at the Center for Andean Ethnomusicology.

Trustees of Columbia University—New York
To preserve recordings of American classical music dating from 1942–1951 by such luminaries as Aaron Copland and Charles Ives, and by then emerging composers such as Samuel Barber and William Schuman.

Florida International University for the Green Library—Miami, Fla.
To preserve and archive oral interviews with musicians and composers of Cuban and Latin American music.

Haleakala Inc. dba The Kitchen—New York
To preserve and modernize The Kitchen’s extensive archival collection of historic audio and videotapes dating from 1972.

International Jazz Collections, University of Idaho—Moscow, Idaho
To preserve and digitize the unique and historically significant tapes and test pressings of the renowned jazz critic, composer, pianist, journalist and producer Leonard Feather.

Northshore Concert Band—Evanston, Ill.
To transfer imperiled recordings spanning almost 30 years of performances by the Northshore Concert Band—one of the nation’s largest and most respected symphonic bands—to digital media and make the collection accessible through Northwestern University’s Music Library.

Other Minds—San Francisco
To preserve the genesis of new music in America for the national cultural record, and digitally convert an aging archive of interviews, live in-studio performances, visual media and concerts.

Raices, a program of Boys & Girls Harbor Inc.—New York
To preserve, archive and digitally transfer imperiled discs and tapes of the Raices Collection, the nation’s largest and most comprehensive collection of materials relating to the evolution and impact of Latin music.

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage—Washington, D.C.
To preserve and archive the music and paperwork of the Joe Glazer Collection, which contains some of the most important songs and speeches of the American labor movement.

UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, UC Regents—Los Angeles
To preserve and dramatically increase access to a selection of valuable American folk music tapes in the
D.K. Wilgus Collection.

Yale University for Oral History, American Music (OHAM)—New Haven, Conn.
To preserve the OHAM collection, which contains oral and video memoirs of some of the most creative musicians of our time, including Aaron Copland, John Cage, Charles Mingus and Frank Zappa.

Amir Lahav—Brighton, Mass.
To investigate the clinical effectiveness of the “Virtual Music Maker,” a unique therapeutic device that was recently developed in the Music, Mind and Motion Lab at Boston University, and provide insight into the use of music production as a treatment modality for neurorehabilitation in stroke patients.

Methodist Hospital Foundation—Houston
To use the effects of music to facilitate movement in patients with Parkinson’s disease, and develop a set of rhythmic auditory stimuli with systematically varying properties to test their ability to facilitate movement in patients.

Abita Music Company—Orlando, Fla.
To rescue an at-risk collection of culturally significant radio transcriptions and their source production recordings. The collection includes interviews with Danny Barker, Fats Domino, Rockin’ Dopsie, Pete Fountain, Al Hirt, the Nevilles, and dozens of other significant Louisiana artists of many different musical genres.

All For One (AFO) Foundation—New Orleans, La.
To arrange, file and store a collection of firsthand historical documents, photos and other memorabilia related to the development of modern jazz in New Orleans in acid-free, water-resistant containers that will be stored in a climate-controlled environment.

Backstreet Cultural Museum—New Orleans, La.
To transfer 12 reels of Super 8mm into 16mm and Beta SP formats from a historically rare collection of films that contain the jazz funerals of musicians and others pivotal in the musical history of New Orleans.

Friends of WWOZ—New Orleans, La.
To catalog and transfer a collection of southern Louisiana roots music from a variety of sound formats to Broadcast Wave files, and log their metadata into NetMix software, with a goal of making its collection and catalog accessible from a server to the station’s show hosts and to scholars performing research.

David Kunian—New Orleans, La.
To transfer from DAT and cassette to DVD-R the estimated 450 interview recordings that David Kunian recorded during his career as a radio documentarian and freelance writer focusing on New Orleans music and musicians.

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation—New Orleans, La.
To enact preservation measures developed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent flooding that call for moving a part of a collection of photographs and video and audio recordings to an offsite facility, expanding shelving capacity to raise the collection two feet above floor level, and installing a system to protect the collection from overhead leaks.

Ben Sandmel—Metairie, La.
To digitize and archive 100 interviews with R&B, traditional jazz, soul, funk, rock, rockabilly, country, and gospel musicians that offer insightful perspectives on the significance of Louisiana music to the national/global music scene.

Tulane University, Hogan Jazz Archive—New Orleans, La.
To preserve 1,376 open reels of oral history interviews with New Orleans jazz musicians through transfer to digital formats. These life stories range from the late 1860s to well into the 20th century.

University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Edith Garland Dupre Library—Lafayette, La.
To organize and provide access to pre-existing audio visual media currently housed in the Cajun and Creole Music Collection by creating catalog records and adding them to the library’s online system.

University of New Orleans/American Routes—New Orleans, La.
To expand efforts at preserving and cataloging significant recordings housed in UNO’s American Routes archives by moving materials from post-catastrophe storage into new facilities and determining if additional salvage work is needed; transferring materials from original reel-to-reel tapes, cassettes, and digital audio tapes to CDs; creating a metadata search mechanism that allows for retrieval of the information in audio and print summary formats.

Alice-Ann Darrow and Jayne Standley—Tallahassee, Fla.
To determine the effectiveness of using music as a remedial strategy to enhance the reading skills of second grade students who have been identified as having a specific learning disability (SLD) in reading.

Andrea R. Halpern—Lewisberg, Pa.
To identify the location and the nature of brain activity patterns that are associated with auditory imagery in musicians and relate these to musical imagery ability; to help to understand how training in music changes the way the brain works.

Steven Brown—San Antonio, Texas
To examine the neural basis of poor pitch singing, otherwise known as tone deafness. The overriding goal of the study is to search for associations between singing skill and brain activity.

Bradley W. Vines—Quebec, Canada
To identify the neural systems that are meaningful in the context of music performance and that rely on information from vision, audition and the sense of movement.

Arhoolie Foundation—El Cerrito, Calif.
To digitize the Arhoolie Foundation’s Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican American Recordings and make it accessible through the University of California Digital Library System.

Beale Street Caravan, Inc.—Memphis, Tenn.
To archive and catalogue the source materials of its weekly, internationally syndicated, non-commercial radio program, consisting of live performances by artists in the blues and related fields.

Columbia College/Center for Black Music Research—Chicago, Ill.
To catalogue and preserve interviews conducted by Sue Cassidy Clark in the 1960s and 1970s with major soul musicians, including Jerry Butler, Al Green, Isaac Hayes, the Impressions, B.B. King, Gladys Knight, Little Richard, Wilson Pickett, Smokey Robinson, Sly Stone, and Stevie Wonder.

Educational Broadcasting Corporation—New York, N.Y.
To preserve 22 music programs produced during the 1970s for the “Great Performances” series, now in its 32nd year of production; to catalog them on Thirteen/WNET’s Web site and make them available for viewing in its reference library.

Library of Congress—Washington, D.C.
To restore, preserve, and make accessible sound recordings held by the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, including devotional and instrumental music, folk songs and musical traditions from the Western hemisphere. Online presentations will feature streaming audio files, searchable databases of information on the recordings, and accompanying text and graphic materials.

Monterey Jazz Festival—Monterey, Calif.
To preserve the first decade of audio recordings of the Monterey Jazz Festival: 1958–1969, an American treasure of unique and irreplaceable recordings of performances by the greatest jazz musicians of the second half of the 20th century.

Museum of Modern Art—New York, N.Y.
To preserve and create access to a collection of music recordings, films and printed material, held in its Celeste Bartos International Film Study Center, documenting the relationship between popular music and motion pictures from the 1890s through 1931.

Museum of Television & Radio—New York, N.Y.
To transfer and catalogue surviving episodes of “American Musical Theater”, “Dial M For Music”, “Our Musical Heritage” and A “Contemporary Memorial,” that aired in the 1960s, capturing interviews and performances by Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim, Barbara Cook, Alan Jay Lerner, Gwen Verdon, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, among many others.

Naropa University—Boulder, Col.
To preserve 100 hours of live recordings of leading writers, musicians and other performance artists who have participated in Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.

National Organization for Traditional Artists Exchange—Kihei, Hawaii
To conserve the Lewiston Archive’s historically and culturally significant traditional music field recordings, including recordings from South America, Guatemala and Southern Mexico, which have been produced by David Lewiston over the past four decades.

Poets House—New York, N.Y.
To digitize the contents of its multimedia archive in order to ensure their preservation and provide patrons with access to recordings such as radio broadcasts of the 1950s through 1970s including poets like Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and Dorothy Parker.

University of New Orleans/American Routes—New Orleans, La.
To archive and preserve the interview and concert collection now in the American Routes library that includes conversations and ritual performances from Native American communities, zydeco musicians and the Creole community, and interviews and music recorded by noted folklorist Nick Spitzer, including Jerry Garcia, Carl Perkins, and Little Milton.

University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, N.C.
To preserve and provide access to recordings relating to the Carter Family and the Sons Of The Pioneers in the Ed Kahn and Eugene Earle Collections in the Southern Folklife Collection, Manuscripts Department, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Western Folklife Center—Elko, Nev.
To transfer approximately 1,200 hours of spoken word and music content that documents grassroots western American poetry, folklore, and traditional and interpretive folk music performed at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nev.

Yale University for Oral History, American Music (OHAM)—New Haven, Conn.
To preserve the entire OHAM collection, which contains oral and video memoirs of some of the most creative musicians of our time, including Aaron Copeland, John Cage, Charles Mingus and Frank Zappa.

Beth Israel Medical Center —New York, N.Y.
To evaluate the effectiveness of the use of music therapy (wind playing) combined with traditional medical care to help manage asthma in children.

Ithaca College, Department of Physical Therapy—Ithaca, N.Y.
To examine the relationship between performance anxiety, sympathetic nervous system tone, and music- related injuries.

University of Oregon—Eugene, Ore.
To study the development of skilled performance in children and adults as they progress from beginners to concert-level artists. The project will specifically study pitch production in cellists and determine the relative importance of visual, auditory and kinesthetic cues for the acquisition of pitch performance accuracy as well as its evolution during skill development.

Archive of Contemporary Music—New York, N.Y.
To evaluate the condition and selectively catalog and provide electronic access to the Archive’s collection of approximately 32,000 ethnic American, Native American, Central American, South American, Caribbean, and African Diaspora music recordings.

Archives of Appalachia—Johnson City, Tenn.
To preserve and digitize the Bonnie Lou and Buster Moore Collection (1968–1982), which includes the only existing recordings of the “Bonnie Lou and Buster Show,” a country music and comedy program produced in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Archives of Cajun and Creole Folklore—Lafayette, La.
To preserve the unique collections, which include field recordings that provide an intimate glimpse into the past by featuring musicians talking and playing in their own homes.

Association for Cultural Equity—New York, N.Y.
To preserve and catalog the core part of the Alan Lomax archival collection of audio, video and photographs made by Lomax in the field from the 1940s to the 1980s. The Archive includes a rare collection documenting folk music and dance from the U.S., African-American Diaspora, and other world cultures.

Brandeis University—Waltham, Mass.
To preserve the Brandeis University Electronic Music Collection, which includes a series of pioneering sound recordings made at the University’s Electronic Music Studio in the 1960s.

Center for Documentary Studies—Durham, N.C.
To preserve, catalog, and provide public access to audio recordings made by photographer W. Eugene Smith in a New York City jazz loft from 1957 to 1964. The recordings contain sessions with Thelonious Monk, Zoot Sims, Bill Evans, Roy Haynes, Charles Mingus, Lee Konitz, Ornette Coleman and Roland Kirk.

Center for Southern Folklore—Memphis, Tenn.
To digitize multimedia archives documenting hundreds of musicians from the Memphis Delta region. Blues greats such as B.B. King and Memphis Slim join blues artists, fife-makers, fiddlers, country, jazz and gospel quartets and many others who have been recorded by Center staff in performances or in interviews, or in musicians homes and workplaces.

Naropa University—Boulder, Colo.
To reformat 100 hours of recordings, which consist primarily of readings and lectures by leading members of the post-World War II U.S. literary avant-garde from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University.

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts—New York, N.Y.
To clean, transfer, and label 22 two-inch quadraphonic videos to more appropriate formats on beta cam, digibeta, and DVD. These videos include non-commercially issued rehearsals, master classes, and interviews with the American tenor Jan Peerce.

Other Minds—San Francisco, Calif.
To archive, catalog, and disseminate the materials that comprise the KPFA music archives. This analog audio collection of 5,000 tapes represents more than 3,500 hours of performances and original, live conversations and interviews with many of the most innovative creators and practitioners of 20th century new music, such as Aaron Copland, Steve Reich and Frank Zappa.

Pacifica Foundation/Pacifica Radio Archives—Berkeley, Calif.
To preserve and make accessible heritage recordings, which date from the 1950s to the present. The archives include original compositions by Lou Harrison, meditations on blues and feminism by Angela Davis, and interviews with Paul Robeson, to name a few.

Pennsylvania Radio Associates, Inc.—Chester Springs, Pa.
To preserve and restore audio archive of interviews and documentary radio programs with many pioneers of electronic and modern music, such as Wendy Carlos, Robert Moog, Philip Glass, and Pierre Henry, among others.

Raices, a Program of Boys and Girls Harbor, Inc.—New York, N.Y.
To archive, preserve, and duplicate the recorded sound portion of the Raices Latin Music Collection. These materials include performances, historic concerts, and oral histories by such legendary Latin masters as Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, “Machito” Grillo, Eddie Palmieri, Johnny Pacheco, and Willie Colón.

Starr-Gennett Foundation, Inc.—Richmond, Ind.
To clean, re-house, catalog, and digitally preserve 400 78-rpm phonograph recordings. The collection’s broad music range includes “When Francis Dances With Me,” “Rondino,” “Bring Back My Wandering Boy,” and “Kaluah Medley.” The 400 recordings will be added to a searchable, online archive.

WBGO, Newark Public Radio, Inc.—Newark, N.J.
To preserve 1,000 hours of material from a collection of jazz performances and radio programs dating from 1980. The Archive includes all 10 years (four concerts per year) of the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band (1992-2002), musically directed by Jon Faddis.

Instituto Nacional de Musicologia—Buenos Aires, Argentina
To digitize, preserve and make available the wealth of historical folk music recordings held in the archives of the Institute. The Archive includes records and analog tapes made by the Institute founder, Carlos Vega and his collaborators in Argentina.

Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania—Philadelphia, Pa.
This project will produce archival transfers of Philadelphia Orchestra concerts that were broadcast on the Philadelphia radio station WFLN between February 1960 and April 1977. In addition to conductor Eugene Ormandy, the recordings include guest conductors and soloists such as Riccardo Muti, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Zubin Mehta, Sir Georg Solti and Van Cliburn, among others.

World Music Productions, Inc.—Brooklyn, N.Y.
To preserve and make available online World Music Productions archive of 500 Afropop Worldwide programs hosted by George Collinet and broadcast on public radio since 1988, which include unique field recordings, interviews, rare commercial recordings no longer available, and contextual historical information.