Extensive collection of historical American music published through the UC Santa Barbara Library’s partnership with the Dust-to-Digital Foundation
Launched in 2008 and funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, DAHR (pronounced dar) has documented more than 440,000 master recordings made by record labels during the 78 rpm era, which spanned approximately 60 years beginning in the late 1890s. The archive is known for its record details, artist biographies, free streaming…