This week I observed the \u2018Archive of popular American Music\u2019, which is a collection of American music that dates back to the 1790\u2019s with over 62,500 musical recordings and 450,000 sheets of music. UCLA\u2019s particular musical archive is known for their large selection of theatrical music, motion pictures, radio and television.<\/p>\n
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You can search the archive through simplistic measures as just a keyword search or you can do a more advanced keyword search with multiple keywords and a range of dates. If you do not know exactly what you are looking for you can search from an extended list of artist names, titles, covert art, or date.<\/p>\n
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On the main homepage there is 9 albums covers from early 1920\u2019s. The album covers all shared a similar theme of masquerade type font, jazz, love and dancing. This archive is called the archive of popular American Music yet the main page with the visual album covers only contains music from the early 1920\u2019s and one album from 1919. I would take this to mean that the 1920\u2019s are when America hit a stride in music. If I were to write a paper on this archive I would write a story on the 1920\u2019s as being a turning point in America\u2019s culture dependent on dancing, parties and music. The archive portrays the 1920\u2019s filled with jazz, dolled up women dancing, extravagant hats and masquerade balls.<\/p>\n
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I cannot tell from this archive why the home page is only albums from 1920\u2019s and no other time period is represented on the initial home page. I think that this would infer that this was America\u2019s time period of their most significant music, during a time when America was in time of a booming economy and flourishing pleasure advancements with theater and music.<\/p>\n
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The archive might want to visualize on their home page a lively representation of America during the \u2018roaring 20\u2019s\u2019 when the US was flourishing, instead of a time of turmoil. The first album on the home page is from 1919, which is the year after WWI ended. Then in 1929 the Great Depression hit America, which is why I would remedy that they chose the image of \u201cAmerica\u2019s Popular Music\u201d to be cover albums from the early 1920\u2019s because it brings attention to a time when people were not stressed with external factors like war and unemployment. People could spend time and money on focusing on these luxurious activities like writing and producing music.<\/p>\n
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