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