Zone d'identification
Cote
AMW-18694
Titre
Alen MacWeeney Collection
Date(s)
- 1965 - 1971 (Production)
Niveau de description
Collection
Étendue matérielle et support
78 audio recordings
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
Alen MacWeeney is a Dublin-born photographer. He began his career in Paris at the age of twenty, as Richard Avedon’s assistant. His work has appeared in numerous magazines, including The New Yorker and LIFE magazine and his photographs are in the permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the George Eastman House, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and others. As well as taking photographic portraits of the Irish travelling community he also recorded their music, songs and stories.
Histoire archivistique
Reel-to-reel tapes were loaned to ITMA for copying by Alen McWeeney in 1997. The reel-to-reels were digitised to CD-R at an unknown date, which were transferred to Broadcast WAV files by Memnon Archiving Services, Brussels in 2019
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Alen MacWeeney
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
This collection focuses primarily on music and song from the Irish Traveller community recorded around County Dublin between 1965 and 1971. Materials in this collection include reel-to-reel tapes, 1 commercial LP, and notes about recordings in two jotter notebooks and loose-leaf paper.
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
110 reel-to-reel tapes were loaned to ITMA for copying. Only 77 were deemed of relevance to the archive and were accessioned in 1997.
Accroissements
The collection was donated in two different accessions, the first in 1998 and the second in 2002. Those accessions contained the following:
6 May 1998: Two 10.5-inch reel-to-reel tapes
25 February 2002: 115 reel-to-reel tapes; 5 10-inch tapes; 3 7-inch tapes; 107 5-inch tapes; two LPs (test pressing The Travelling People of Ireland), two jotters containing tape notes.
Mode de classement
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d’accès
Users may not have access to original recordings, but may access digital surrogate onsite at ITMA, 73 Merrion Square.
Conditions de reproduction
In copyright
Langue des documents
- anglais
- irlandais
Écriture des documents
Notes de langue et graphie
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
Instruments de recherche
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
Unités de description associées
Zone des notes
Identifiant(s) alternatif(s)
Mots-clés
Mots-clés - Sujets
Mots-clés - Lieux
Mots-clés - Noms
Mots-clés - Genre
Zone du contrôle de la description
Identifiant de la description
Identifiant du service d'archives
IE ITMA
Règles et/ou conventions utilisées
ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description. 2 nd ed. Ottawa: International Council on Archives, 2000.
Irish Guidelines for Archival Description. Ireland: Society of Archivists, 2009
Anglo-American cataloguing rules. 2nd ed., 1988 revision. Ottawa : Chicago: Canadian Library Association.
Irish Guidelines for Archival Description. Ireland: Society of Archivists, 2009
Anglo-American cataloguing rules. 2nd ed., 1988 revision. Ottawa : Chicago: Canadian Library Association.
Statut
Niveau de détail
Moyen
Dates de production, de révision, de suppression
Langue(s)
- anglais
Écriture(s)
Sources
Alen MacWeeney website, 'Bio', https://www.alenmacweeney.com/about/bio (accessed 25 July 2019)
Note de l'archiviste
Collection-level description compiled by Fionnuala Parfrey