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Monthly Archives August 2008

Digitizing 76rpm SPs

I read an interesting article in the Wired blog and wanted to share it with you:
One Man’s Quest to Digitize and Publicize Rare Vinyl
The man named Cliff Bolling have been digitizing hundreds of 78rpm SP records into mp3 forms for the last five years, and still thousands to go. In his archiving website, you can [...]

Posted 12 August 2008 † sonicscape § 200 words ‡ Comments (3) °

History of Korean popular music through films (2): “Song of Hope (希望歌)”

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Let me start with my personal experience in the 1980s. If you don’t like “Marxist days” of East Asian scholars, you can skip the first and second paragraph.
In the early and mid-1980s, when I was a university student in Seoul, lots of students sang this song especially during drinking. The song title was simply “song [...]

Posted 02 August 2008 † homey81 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , ,