Sound Recordings
Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:
Mountain Fuel Supply Company audio-visual collection
The Mountain Fuel Supply Company audio-visual collection (1968-1979) consists of films promoting the use of natural gas and documenting the production and transmission of natural gas and sound recordings of speeches and interviews relating to natural gas production. The collection also contains some employee training films. Mountain Fuel Supply was an oil and gas energy company based in Salt Lake City, Utah. The company was reoragnized in 1984 to form Questar Corporation.
Charles James Nabors collection of George McGovern campaign audio recordings
The Charles James Nabors collection of George McGovern campaign audio recordings are radio promotionals made by the George McGovern for President committee, which supported the South Dakota Senator as the Democratic candidate in the 1972 presidential election against incumbent Richard Nixon. The tapes were collected by Dr. Charles Nabors, a medical researcher and political activist who became the University of Utah's first African American faculty member in 1958.
Native American oral histories audio recordings
The Native American oral histories audio recordings (1954-1993) consists of interviews with members of various Native American tribes who discuss subjects such as land use, land boundaries, tribal history, rituals, and tribal songs. Represented groups include: Nevada Intertribal Council, Hupa, various Ute groups, Tohono O'odham, Tesuqe and Santa Ana Pueblo. The American West Center is dedicated to documenting the history of the intermountain region and surrounding areas.
Marie Barker Nelson music recordings
The Marie Barker Nelson music recordings (1994-1996) consist of audio recordings of music written by Utah composer Marie Barker Nelson. A Salt Lake City native, Dr. Nelson studied at the Yale School of Music and earned a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree from the University of Utah where she studied under Ramiro Cortés and Vladimir Ussachevsky.
L. Jackson Newell audiovisual collection
This collection contains the professional and personal history of L. Jackson Newell. Many of these items contain interviews between Newell and his collegues at the University of Utah and Deep Spring Colleges.
Ogden Writers Series audio collection
The Ogden Writers Series audio collection (1985) consists of audio recordings of papers given at Weber State University in Ogden about native or resident Ogden authors.
Frank O'Rourke audio book
The Frank O'Rourke audio book (1999) is an audio recording of Ellen and the Barber, a novel divided into three novellas set in the 1930s and published posthumously in 1997. Born in Denver, Colorado, Frank O'Rourke was a prolific author, many of whose stories were related to the American West.
Park City Mountain Resort audio-visual collection
Joseph S. Peery audio visual collection
This collection provides a look into Dr. Joseph S. Peery's life through his home movies and speeches about his area of expertise, economics and finance.
Gail Plummer collection of Maud May Babcock audio recordings
Rick Reese mountaineering audio collection
The Rick Reese mountaineering audio collection (1980-1996) consists of oral histories of mountaineers once active in Wyoming's Teton Range. An historian and former Grand Teton National Park climbing ranger, Reese himself conducts one of the interviews.
Leroy J. Robertson music recordings
Joel Rosenberg audio collection
The Joel Rosenberg audio collection (1982) consists of audio recordings of Mormon hymns arranged for viola and piano. The recordings feature Rosenberg on viola and were orchestrated by the pianist, David Bonham. Joel Rosenberg is the music director of the American West Symphony of Sandy City and the Paradigm Chamber Orchestra and has been viola soloist with numerous symphony orchestras and has conducted orchestras around the world, including the Utah Opera.
Ski Utah audio-visual collection
The Ski Utah audio-visual collection consists largely of promotional films, videos and compact discs designed to attract tourists to Utah on behalf of the ski and snowboard industry. The collection also includes a some news stories related to Utah's ski industry. Ski Utah, Inc. is a marketing firm represnting the state's resorts and related service industries.
Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort audio-visual collection
Lennox Tierney interviews audio-visual collection
The Lennox Tierney interviews audio-visual collection (1994-1997) concern Tierney's experiences as an orientalist. Dr. Tierney is an emeritus professor in art history at the University of Utah and an expert in Asian art and culture who once served as Commissioner of Art and Monuments during the Allied occupation of Japan.
University of Utah Department of Anthropology audio collection
The University of Utah Department of Anthropology audio collection (circa 1960s-1970s) consists of commercially published audio recordings representing various cultures and ethnic groups. The recordings consist largely of musical traditions of Native American tribes and other cultures around the world. These materials were collected as teaching materials by the Univeristy of Utah Department of Anthropology.
Utah labor archive audio-visual collection
The Utah labor archive audio-visual collection (1948-1961) consists of audio recordings of speeches and songs and informational films relating to labor unions in Utah and the United States at large.
Utah Scottish Association audio-visual collection
The Utah Scottish Association audio-visual collection (1971-1981) consists of audiocassette recordings taken from the lectures and interviews of Dr. Frederick S. Buchanan on Scottish culture and the experience of Scottish-American immigrants to the United States. An historian and educator, Buchanan emigrated from Scotland to Utah with his parents in 1949.
Voices of American homemakers oral history project audio recordings
The voices of American homemakers oral history project audio recordings (1977-1983) consist of interviews with 196 women throughout the United States about homemaking in the first half of the twentieth century. The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a major grant to the National Extension Homemakers Council for a three-year nationwide project to collect, process, and disseminate representative oral histories from rural homemakers throughout the country.