{"id":242,"date":"2014-09-30T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2014\/09\/30\/special-collections-highlight-baltimore-voices-company\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:28:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:28:54","slug":"special-collections-highlight-baltimore-voices-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2014\/09\/30\/special-collections-highlight-baltimore-voices-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Collections Highlight: Baltimore Voices Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;   0  0  1  197  1129  University of Baltimore  9  2  1324  14.0 &lt;![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;   Normal  0          false  false  false    EN-US  JA  X-NONE                                                                    &lt;![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    &lt;![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]&gt;&lt;![endif]-->   <!--StartFragment-->   <!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-5Vi_UmhnIic\/VCrdT_tLssI\/AAAAAAAAAEA\/hSU1v8mBRHc\/s1600\/bvc_banner3.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-5Vi_UmhnIic\/VCrdT_tLssI\/AAAAAAAAAEA\/hSU1v8mBRHc\/s1600\/bvc_banner3.jpg\" height=\"129\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #333333;font-size: 10.0pt;line-height: 115%\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #333333;font-size: 10.0pt;line-height: 115%\">Today we are highlighting a collection from the Library\u2019s Special Collections Department (offices and Research Room can be found on the 4th Floor of the Learning Commons): the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/cdm16352.contentdm.oclc.org\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/p16352coll2\/id\/42\"><span style=\"color: #333333;font-size: 10.0pt;line-height: 115%\">Baltimore Voices Company Collection<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #333333;font-size: 10.0pt;line-height: 115%\">.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #333333;font-size: 10.0pt;line-height: 115%\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #333333;font-size: 10.0pt;line-height: 115%\">Formed in 1979, the Baltimore Voices Company (BVC) was the Baltimore <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;line-height: 115%\">Theatre Project&#8217;s<span style=\"color: #333333\"> contribution to a larger, multi-faceted local history initiative known as the <\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/cdm16352.contentdm.oclc.org\/cdm\/singleitem\/collection\/p16352coll2\/id\/37\/rec\/2\"><span style=\"color: #333333;font-size: 10.0pt;line-height: 115%\">Baltimore Neighborhood Heritage Project<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #333333;font-size: 10.0pt;line-height: 115%\"> (or BNHP, another archival collection held here at Langsdale Library). In order to create a theatrical production that was performed throughout the city in 1980, company members utilized existing BNHP oral histories and conducted their own tape-recorded interviews. The BVC&#8217;s interviews were organized around specific themes, including labor, education, and community organizing. The collection at Langsdale contains oral history tapes, transcripts of interviews, biographical sketches, financial documents, publications, posters, photographs, brochures and more. For digital copies of some of the audio and documents, please see the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/cdm16352.contentdm.oclc.org\/cdm\/landingpage\/collection\/p16352coll11\"><span style=\"color: #333333;font-size: 10.0pt;line-height: 115%\">digital exhibit<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #333333;font-size: 10.0pt;line-height: 115%\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #333333;font-size: 10.0pt;line-height: 115%\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #333333;font-size: 10.0pt;line-height: 115%\"><i>&lt;&lt;Siobhan Hagan, AV Archivist<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we are highlighting a collection from the Library\u2019s Special Collections Department (offices and Research Room can be found on the 4th Floor of the Learning Commons): the Baltimore Voices Company Collection.&nbsp; Formed in 1979, the Baltimore Voices Company (BVC) <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2014\/09\/30\/special-collections-highlight-baltimore-voices-company\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Special Collections Highlight: Baltimore Voices Company<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,131,44,133,50,330,3,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1125,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/1125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}