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Klaus-Kuhnke-Archiv für Populäre Musik
gemeinnützige GmbH
Institut an der Hochschule für Künste /
Klaus-Kuhnke-Archive of Popular Music |
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Dechanatstraße 13-15
D-28195 Bremen
Tel.: +49 (0)421 328512
Fax: +49 (0)421 3378669
E-Mail: archiv@kkarchiv.de
www.kkarchiv.de
Contact:
Ulrich Duve
Opening hours:
Mon-Thu 9.30 a.m.-4.30 p.m.
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The Klaus Kuhnke Archive is a reference archive open to members of the public who are interested in popular music, either as educators or as musicians, journalists, academics, collectors, etc. The archive holds, among others, the collections of Klaus Kuhnke, Manfred Miller, Peter Schulze and Ingolf Wachler (mainly broadcast journalists, especially in the areas of the history of popular music and its contemporary forms).
In the Archive you can find Johann Strauss and the Sex Pistols, Tin Pan Alley songs and field recordings; there is jazz, blues, folk, rock, soul - all musical genres except classical musicology.
Klaus Kuhnke, Manfred Miller and Peter Schulze founded the Archive of Popular Music in 1975. After Klaus Kuhnke's death in 1988 the remaining founders decided to rename the archive after their late friend and to change the economic basis of its organisation taking into account the public character of its work.
In 1991 the Archive moved into the building of the Academy of Fine Arts (Hochschule für Künste, HfK) in Dechanatstrasse, where music departments of the Academy of Fine Arts and Bremen University are situated. The Archive was given the status of an institute at the Academy of Fine Arts to facilitate the cooperation among these institutions. This cooperation has proven very successful and the Archive has developed into an indispensible part of the infrastructure of the Academy of Fine Arts. This is especially the case as both the Academy's and the Bremen University's music departments offer their students a specialisation on jazz and popular music
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Music recording collections |
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Our collection of music recordings contains ca. 90.000 copies (Dec. 2003), including:
- ca. 30.000 CDs
- ca. 50.000 LPs
- ca. 9.000 Singles
- ca. 1.000 Schellackplatten
About 90 % of the recordings are included in our data base which is available on the internet
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Library |
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Our library contains c. 8.500 books and c. 150 periodicals (some complete, some on microfilm). We currently subscribe to 20 titles. (December 2003)
The books are currently being catalogued according to library conventions, an index of the periodicals is also available online.
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Other media |
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The collection also comprises c. 200 video tapes, c. 100 DVDs and a few CD-ROMs.
Our collection is continuously growing through purchases, subscriptions, promotional copies, donations, inheritances etc., thereby keeping up to date. Donations and inheritances of complete collections have given the Archive a comprehensive collection of rare items, especially from the vinyl era, which is unique in Germany and Europe in its stylistical diversity.
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Equipment |
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The archive's collection is in the basement, which is connected to the ground floor office by a spiral staircase. The vinyl records are stored in long shelves in the basement corridors, a special three-tier shelving system was made for the CDs. The books and periodicals are accomodated in movable shelves in our separate library room.
The technical equipment includes four listening stations which each hold a CD player, a turntable, a tape deck and a mini-disc player. It is possible to make analogue copies for both private and academic purposes. A studio equipped for the making of copies according to radio and
professional recording standards
as well as the digitization of analogue carriers is available for use by
the staff.
The technical equipment is supplemented by a SVHS video player, a DVD player und and some quarter-inch tape machines.
There is also a working player for shellac records. Additionally we provide microfilm and microfiche reading facilities and a photocopier.
A PC with internet access is available to our users for research.
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2002-2008 Netzwerk Mediatheken / Network of Multimedia Resource
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