Name: Beaver Island House Party book and CD document the island’s musical legacy in 1996
Start: 1996-12
End: 1996-12
Location: Beaver Island

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Event

Date: 1996-12
Kind: Publication
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: music-folklorepublicationheritagecommunitycommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The December 1996 Beaver Beacon announces Beaver Island House Party, a book and CD produced through Laurie Sommers’s research and collaboration with the MSU Museum, Shirley Gladish, and the Beaver Island Historical Society. The CD includes 11 historic field recordings and 14 contemporary studio recordings and the project also gathered oral histories and photographs.

Evidence limits

This record follows the newspaper’s publication notice and does not catalog the book’s complete contents or independently verify each recording’s provenance.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, December 1996, “NEW BOOK And CD Celebrate B. I. Music.”
Describes Laurie Sommers’s MSU Museum research, historic and contemporary Beaver Island recordings, oral histories and photographs, collaboration with Shirley Gladish and the Historical Society, and publication by MSU Press with 11 historic and 14 contemporary recordings. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, December 1996, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the book-and-CD publication report.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island House Party book and CD document the island’s musical legacy in 1996”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-house-party-book-cd-publication-1996/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, December 1996, “NEW BOOK And CD Celebrate B. I. Music.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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