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Shellac: online sound and source archive

The Shellac Project is dedicated to the complete documentation of Norwegian musicians and their recordings from the first half of the 20th century, consisting of biographies, repertoire listings, and discographic data as well as the recordings themselves.

This opens up a large and basically untouched research field concerning Norwegian artists, their careers and their interpretations.

Shellac was, of course, an important ingredient in most records from this period, but the project is not limited to any specific sound carrier. A better definition of its scope might be that it encompasses any recordings made without use of magnetic tape; that is to say brief, but “real” sound images, without any possibilities of editing the result.

Published: Jun 17, 2014 — Last updated: Mar 16, 2023