Washington
Metropolitan Area Chapter (ARSC)
The chapter meets several times a year in the Pickford Auditorium of the Library of Congress. Chapter meetings are open to the public.
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Next Meeting
December 17, 2019
So Rare: The Last Days of Jimmy Dorsey, presented by Matthew Barton [flyer (pdf)]
Past Meetings
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Robert Phillips "Bing Crosby, Jack Mullin and the Early History of Magnetic Recording" Matthew Barton "Hollywood Two Step: How Bob Wills and his Friends Made Western Movies Swing" |
June 24, 2014 |
| Laura Schnitker and Eric Cartier "Saving Campus Radio: Presenting and Preserving WAMU and WMUC" |
June 17, 2013, 7pm [PDF] |
| Jay Bruder "East Coast Connections: The Birth of the Independent Record Industry in Washington, DC after World War II" |
November 7, 2012, 7pm [PDF] |
| Steve Smolian "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Turntable" |
September 2006 [PDF] |
| Larry Appelbaum "Discovering the Monk-Coltrane Tapes" |
April 2006 |
| Mike Mashon "Early Sound and Film Technologies" |
January 2006 [PDF] |
| Dr. William Smith "Documenting DC's Underground Hip Hop Scene" |
November 2005 [PDF] |
| Jeff Bagato "Singing Plants, Crumpled Paer, and the Art of Phonography" |
July 2005 [PDF] |
| Matt Barton "Classic Heavyweight Championship Broadcasts" |
June 2005 [PDF] |
| Matt Barton "It Happened in April: Marian Anderson and FDR's Funeral" |
April 2005 [PDF] |
| Bryan Cornell "From Milton’s Monster to Moog España" |
January 2005 [PDF] |
| Al Schlachtmeyer "Stokowski: The NBC Years" |
February 2004 |
| Ward Gaines "Blues with a Feeling: The Little Walter Story" |
October 2003 |
| Dick Spottswood and Doug Meade "Country Music Discography" |
November 2002 |
| Library of Congress "Library of American Broadcasting Field Trip" |
October 2002 |
| Geoffrey Wheeler "Dial Records" |
April 2002 |
| Paul Vernon "African-American Blues, Gospel, R&B, and Zydeco on Film" |
March 2002 |
| XM Radio "XM Radio Field Trip" |
January 2002 |
| David Sager "Nat Brusiloff, Broadcast Pioneer" |
November 2001 |
| ARSC/NARAS joint panel "Free DC: The State (And Fate) of Local Independent Record Companies" |
September 2001 |
| Mark Andersen and Mark Jenkins "DC PUNK" |
May 2001 |
| Todd Harvey, Mark Jackson, and Stephen
Wade "What’s Cooking at The American Folklife Center’s Archive of Folk Culture" |
March 2001 |
| Dr. Peggy Bulger and Dr. Frank Proschan "Save Our Sounds: America’s Recorded Sound Heritage Project" |
January 2001 |
| Kip Lornell and Jay Bruder "Recording Black Music in Washington, D.C." |
September 2000 |
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