A selection of recordings is freely available within the Center's Digital Collections. Rights holders may include donors, copyright holders, record companies, artists, radio networks, licensing organizations, unions, etc.
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Anyone wishing to obtain personal copies must secure written permission from any and all rights holders. Due to copyright and donor restrictions, some recordings are only available in-house and may not be distributed, even for research purposes. The Ransom Center will not duplicate any recordings at risk of damage by the digitization process. If a listening copy does not exist, patrons may request digitization. Alexander Street Music and Dance Online provides access to audio recordings, video, musical scores, liner notes, biographies, full-text music reference. Notable audio holdings include recordings from the archives of Stella Adler, Norman Bel Geddes, Erle Stanley Gardner, Ross Russell and Dial Records (and Addition to his papers), John Beecher, Spalding Gray, Norman Mailer, Mel Gussow, and Gloria Swanson papers. Published recordings include music and spoken word from major and historic labels, such as Dial Records. Non-published audio recordings include conference proceedings, dictated notes and letters, field recordings, interviews, lectures, musical performances, radio broadcasts, rehearsals, and other recordings made for private, non-commercial use.
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Formats include wax cylinders, phonograph records, wire recordings, dictation discs and belts, reel-to-reel audio tapes, audiocassettes, microcassettes, compact discs, and other digital audio formats.