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Mar 31 2022

Upcoming Lecture: Bohemia on Records with Guest Speaker Filip Šír

Posted on March 31, 2022May 27, 2022 by Katie Buehner

headshot of archivist Filip SirFilip Šír, coordinator for Digitization of Audio Documents at the National Museum (Prague), will talk of his work to track down and preserve early 20th century Czech sound recordings made in the United States. Ed. Jedlička cylinder recordings from the Music Library’s collections will also be exhibited. Filip’s book on this topic, co-authored with collector Gabriel Gossel and published in 2018, talks about a number of important Czech recording artists and producers, including Jedlička and Chicago-based Joseph Jiran. 

If you’re interested in archives, historical sound recordings, immigrant cultures, or Czech history, be sure to attend!

This event is co-sponsored by the Rita Benton Music Library and the School of Library and Information Science, and presented by the School of Music’s Colloquium speaker series.

Event Details:

Friday, April 29, 2022
1:30-2:30pm
Voxman Music Building, VOX2 (basement room)

To learn more:

“National Museum searching for early Czech sound recordings in US,” Radio Prague International, September 17, 2019.

Czech cylinders: gifts of culture and Iowa family history, Bindings – University of Iowa Libraries Magazine, Summer 2021.

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