ARHOOLIE FOUNDATION COLLECTIONS:Ain’t No Mouse Blog
Ain’t No Mouse Blog presents stories from the Arhoolie Foundation’s extraordinary archive of American roots music and vernacular culture.
Featuring contributions from Foundation staff and interns, the blog features close looks at fascinating finds, updates on preservation projects, and curated highlights from across our collection of sound and video recordings, photographs, posters, papers, and more.
The Ann Savoy Collection Goes Live
The Arhoolie Foundation is proud to make available new audio interviews with legendary Cajun and Creole musicians from the Ann Savoy Interview Collection. Ann’s collection consists...
Read MoreFinding History on a Store Sticker
By Juan Antonio Cuéllar, Frontera Collection Curator Throughout my 20 years of digitizing the Frontera Collection, I was always intrigued by the store stickers found on...
Read MoreAnnouncing the Irene Tenney Cajun and Creole Culture Collection
By Clark Noone, Archivist We’re excited to announce the new Irene Tenney Cajun and Creole Culture Collection at the Arhoolie Foundation! Featuring a wide array of...
Read MoreWhat a Difference a Date Makes
By John Leopold, Managing Director The Arhoolie Foundation collections contain a multitude of items that were acquired by a collector. Chris Strachwitz collected records, tapes, posters,...
Read MoreFrom San Antonio With Love
By Juan Antonio Cuéllar, Frontera Collection Curator Over my twenty-year span of digitizing the Frontera Collection as the Head Digitizing Engineer, many aspects of the collection...
Read MoreAn Arhoolie Holiday Feast
By Clark Noone, Archivist Tell me what you eat for the holidays, and I’ll tell you where you come from. Okay, maybe it’s not that simple....
Read MoreThe Blues Professor and His Dancing Dolls
By Jessica Luther, Archives Intern While sorting through the Strachwitz Photo Collection, I became intrigued by several photographs of blues harmonica player Johnny “J.C.” Burris posing...
Read MoreNew Blog Shares Discoveries
The Arhoolie Foundation introduces This Ain’t No Mouse Blog to present stories from the Arhoolie Foundation’s extraordinary archive of American roots music and vernacular culture. Featuring...
Read MoreThe Blues on My Block: Discovering the Roots Music History of Downtown Berkeley
By Kyle Jackson, Archives Intern I recently began working on a project to help catalog some of the treasure trove of recordings in the vaults at...
Read MoreA Demo in the Rough
By Juan Antonio Cuéllar, Frontera Collection Curator As the Head Digitizing Engineer of the Frontera Collection from 2002 until early 2022, I was fortunate to discover...
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