Sound Beat
Sound Beat is a daily, 90 second show highlighting the holdings of the Belfer Audio Archive. The Belfer is part of the Syracuse University Library, and with over half a million recordings, is one of the largest sound archives in the United States. Each SB episode focuses on one particular recording from the Archive, and provides a back story detailing its place in recording history.
- Update frequency
- every 40 days
- Average duration
- 1 minutes
- Episodes
- 70
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2025
National Library Week – Mary Baker Eddy
You’re listening to Syracuse University Libraries Cataloger Sophie Rondeau and…
You’re on the Sound Beat
Sound Beat is produced at the Belfer Audio Archive, Syracuse University Libraries.
I’m Brett B…
National Library Week – Greek Folk
Long before the Greenwich village scene of the 1960’s, New York served as a folk music hotspot of another kind. Here’s Syracuse University Libraries Cataloger Jennifer Vaughn.
This episode was record…
National Library Week – The Prisonaires
A pretty little tune written by a couple-a fellas…just walking around…prison. You’re listening to Syracuse University Libraries Cataloger Sophie Rondeau and …
You’re on the Sound Beat.
This episo…
National Library Week – Hans Kronold’s Lecture
We’re spoiled here at Sound Beat, listening to and learning about the very best recordings ever made. But as Syracuse University Libraries Cataloger Jennifer Vaughn tells us, sometimes great stories …
Tolkien’s First Monsters
Tolkien started writing Lord of the Rings in 1937. But a year before that he gave a lecture entitled “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics”. Beowulf is, of course, the epic poem recognized as one of…
Deep Elem Blues
You’re listening to Deep Elem blues, performed by Dick Stabile and His Orchestra, with vocal chorus by Billy Wilson. Deep Elm is a real town near Houston, Texas but the local pronunciation led to tha…
100 Years of Woody Guthrie – Tom Joad
When John Steinbeck read the lyrics to Woody Guthrie’s Ballad of Tom Joad…well, we’ll let Anna tell it.
(Interview)
The two men admired each other greatly…fitting, then, that 2012’s Woody Guthrie Cen…
100 Years of Woody Guthrie – Oklahoma Hills
Woody wrote this tune and his cousin Jack recorded it in 1945. It went to the top of the charts…a feat that a Woody Guthrie record never matched. But it’s Woody’s version, not Jack’s, that serves as …
Happy Birthday To Us!
Sound Beat is officially one year old today. We thought about celebrating with that OTHER song. But it just so happens that THAT SONG is one of the most famously-litigated songs in all of copyright l…