The Circolo Gianni Bosio’s sound archive: oral and ethnomusicological sources, field research recordings on the memory and expressive forms of popular cultures in Italy and the United States.
The Archivio Sonoro Franco Coggiola holds the research recordings produced by the Circolo Gianni Bosio and by researchers who share its method: the interview and the field recording as tools of historical and cultural research. Its sources, oral and ethnomusicological, document the memory and expressive forms of popular cultures, from social and labour history to traditional music.
The archive is described and made available online following current archival descriptive standards, through two complementary tools: the ArchivesSpace catalogue and the public Omeka S portal.
The portal for browsing and searching the sound archive’s catalogue records, designed for researchers and the general public.
The catalogue with the full archival description of the holdings, the series hierarchy, and finding aids.
As coordinator of the Circolo Gianni Bosio’s sound archive, remotely since November 2019, I look after the preservation and promotion of the Archivio Franco Coggiola: preservation planning, metadata and finding-aid creation in ArchivesSpace, and the descriptive work that makes the sources searchable and browsable through the archive’s catalogue and public portal.
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