Zona de identificação
Código de referência
AMW-18694
Título
Alen MacWeeney Collection
Data(s)
- 1965 - 1971 (Produção)
Nível de descrição
Coleção
Dimensão e suporte
78 audio recordings
Zona do contexto
Nome do produtor
História biográfica
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.
Entidade detentora
História do arquivo
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
Fonte imediata de aquisição ou transferência
Alen MacWeeney
Zona do conteúdo e estrutura
Âmbito e conteúdo
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.
Avaliação, selecção e eliminação
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.
Ingressos adicionais
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.
Sistema de arranjo
Zona de condições de acesso e utilização
Condições de acesso
Users may not have access to original recordings, but may access digital surrogate onsite at ITMA, 73 Merrion Square.
Condiçoes de reprodução
In copyright
Idioma do material
- inglês
- irlandês
Script do material
Notas ao idioma e script
Características físicas e requisitos técnicos
Instrumentos de descrição
Zona de documentação associada
Existência e localização de originais
Existência e localização de cópias
Unidades de descrição relacionadas
Zona das notas
Identificador(es) alternativo(s)
Pontos de acesso
Pontos de acesso - Assuntos
Pontos de acesso - Locais
Pontos de acesso - Nomes
Pontos de acesso de género
Zona do controlo da descrição
Identificador da descrição
Identificador da instituição
IE ITMA
Regras ou convenções utilizadas
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.
Estatuto
Nível de detalhe
Parcial
Datas de criação, revisão, eliminação
Línguas e escritas
- inglês
Script(s)
Fontes
Alen MacWeeney website, 'Bio', https://www.alenmacweeney.com/about/bio (accessed 25 July 2019)
Nota do arquivista
Collection-level description compiled by Fionnuala Parfrey