{"id":15397,"date":"2018-03-21T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2018\/03\/21\/run-dmc-pauline-oliveros-rumours-chic-and-beethoven-added-to-library-of-congress\/"},"modified":"2018-03-21T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T16:00:00","slug":"run-dmc-pauline-oliveros-rumours-chic-and-beethoven-added-to-library-of-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/run-dmc-pauline-oliveros-rumours-chic-and-beethoven-added-to-library-of-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Run-DMC, Pauline Oliveros, 'Rumours,' Chic And Beethoven Added To Library Of Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Run-D.M.C. backstage at the Grammy Awards in March 1987. The hip-hop group’s 1986 album Raising Hell<\/em> is one of 25 new inductees to the Library of Congress Recording Registry.<\/p>\n

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The National Library of Congress has shared its latest batch of musical inductees to the National Recording Registry<\/a>. The 25 works \u2014 a mix of singles, field recordings, albums and soundtracks \u2014 represent myriad genres and time periods, and bring the Registry’s overall catalog up to 500 entries.<\/p>\n

From pop, the class includes The Temptations<\/a>‘ 1965 hit single “My Girl”; Tony Bennett<\/a>‘s 1962 love song “I Left My Heart in San Francisco”; the soundtrack to The Sound of Music<\/em>; Harry Belafonte<\/a>‘s 1965 album Calypso<\/em>; Arlo Guthrie’s 1967 anti-war monologue “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree”; the 1967 compilation New Sounds in Electronic Music<\/em>, which included separate works from Steve Reich, Richard Maxfield and Pauline Oliveros<\/a>; Chic’s indelible disco hit “Le Freak” from 1978; and Run-D.M.C.<\/a>‘s 1986 album Raising Hell.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Other timeless inductions run the gamut from Arthur Schnabel’s The Complete <\/em>Beethoven<\/em><\/a> Piano Sonatas<\/em> (1932-1935), the works’ first recordings, to historical field recordings of songs, preserved on wax cylinders by George Herzog in 1928, from the Sioux’s Yanktonai-Dakota band. The cylinders captured songs of the band following its relocation to Standing Rock Reservation<\/a> (near the site of the protracted Dakota Access Pipeline protests) and songs recalled from times prior to establishment of the reservation. The 1930 bolero folk song “Lamento Borincano” gave a voice to the plight of Puerto Rico’s farming community during the Great Depression. NBC’s two-month radio series covering the United Nations Conference on International Organization, which took place in San Francisco between April and June, 1945, gives a fly-on-the-wall account of how the United Nations’ charter was created.<\/p>\n

The 2017 inductees are listed chronologically below. <\/p>\n