Musicians of Britain and Ireland 1900-1950

The project provides recordings of performances by British and Irish musicians made between 1900 and 1950. owing to changes in company policy in the 1930s, their work was gradually excluded and mush of it forgotten. MBI is accessible through an attractive online search interface that also gives access to the complete recorded output of the AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM). By reissuing such a large body of top-quality recorded performances, MBI aims to enhance public dissemination of the recorded heritage, to enable a re-evaluation of pre-War british and irish musicianship among both the research community and the general listening public, and to raise awareness of teh extent to which record company policies shape public perceptions of musical excellence and the reputation of artistic communities. the technical framework builds on and extends functionality developed on the CHARM project, including robust standards-based models for encoding textual and audio materials and associated metadata within a preservation-friendly environment.