Show hosts Jesse Johnston and Evan Haywood talk with Jocelyn Robinson about the preservation of archives from HBCU radio stations. Robinson is the director of radio preservation and archives at WYSO Public Radio and working on a project to preserve radio broadcast archives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. During the conversation, she shared about the history of these radio stations and their importance to campus life, and her ongoing work to gather resources to survey and preserve the archives of about 30 stations throughout the southeast. We also talked about the content and sound of the stations, which led us into thinking about why audio archives are so unique and important, as well as some tips on how to start out on an audio archiving project.

Sound clips from the WRVS archives are used courtesy of the Elizabeth City State University (North Carolina), Archives and Special Collections, G.R. Little Library.

Credits

Show produced and directed by Jesse Johnston. Hosted and written by Jesse Johnston and Evan Haywood. Engineering, music, editing, and sound design by Evan Haywood.

Original music and sound designs by Evan Haywood.

Engineered, recorded, and mixed at Black Ram Treehouse in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the University of Michigan School of Information, the Library of Congress, and our generous donors.

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