Bryan Wagner
@bwagner.bsky.social
Professor and writer working in legal history, vernacular culture, popular music, urban studies, and digital humanities. UC Berkeley.
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Public Domain Day 2025 | Duke University School of Law
Tweet January 1, 2025 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1929 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1924! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle Directors, Duke Center for the Study of the Public D...
web.law.duke.edu
December 16, 2024 at 12:22 AM
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Planet Ilunga repressing this incredible collection
La Rumba De Mi Vida, by Franco et l'orchestre O.K. Jazz
22 track album
planetilunga.bandcamp.com
December 8, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Planet Ilunga repressing this incredible collection
Exciting new work from Archeophone -- the discovery of arguably the earliest extant country music recording, from 1891, by Louis Vasnier, a Black Creole musician from the Seventh Ward of New Orleans.
Genius of the Seventh Ward ⋆ Archeophone Records
Thirty years before some fiddlers from Texas, Oklahoma, and Georgia started recording a new genre of music called “hillbilly,” a Creole of color from the Seventh Ward of New Orleans named Louis Vasnie...
www.archeophone.com
November 15, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Exciting new work from Archeophone -- the discovery of arguably the earliest extant country music recording, from 1891, by Louis Vasnier, a Black Creole musician from the Seventh Ward of New Orleans.