We have over 5,300 LP records at the Lilly Music Library. The records are located in the Music Stacks and can be used in the library or borrowed for use at home. This collection spans approximately 80 years of recorded music from the 1940s to the present and includes recordings from a variety of record labels, including: RCA Victor, Decca, Vanguard, Columbia, Folkway Records, Vox, Nonesuch Records, the University of California Institute of Ethnomusicology, Bärenreiter Musicaphon, the Smithsonian Collection, and many more.
Below is only a very small sample of what we have available in the LP record collection.
Songs of earth, water, fire, and sky: [music of the American Indian]
Root hog or die: 100 songs, 100 years: an Alan Lomax centennial tribute
The polyphony of South-East Asia; Bali: court music and banjar music
Iranian Dastgah
Also available on Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/lp_iranian-dastgah_various
Sissle & Blake's Shuffle along: [an archival re-creation of the 1921 production, featuring members of the original cast]
by
Blake, Eubie
King Kong: all African jazz opera: original African cast
by
Matshikiza, Todd
The in sound from way out: electronic pop music of the future
by
Perrey-Kingsley
Akwan: for piano, electronic piano, amplified strings and orchestra
by
Wilson, Olly
Music of the Maya-Quiches of Guatamala: the Rabinal achi and Baile de la canastas
by
Yurchenco, Henrietta