Popular Music Artist Marketing Materials

Collection

Identifier: MUSIC-037

Staff Only

Collection Overview

Scope and Contents

Collection contains promotional and marketing files, mostly for popular and rock music artists and bands, including promotional materials from record labels, some clippings from newspapers and magazines, promotional photographs, some press releases, and other ephemeral marketing materials. Fewer folders relate to music venues, movie and television soundtracks, and musical genres.

Dates

Creation: 1950s-2010s

Extent

160 Cubic Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by artist or band name or folder title.

Related Materials

Some of the sound archives' promotional materials from record companies or distributors have been transferred to other MLBSSA collections, most often: Music Posters Collection (MUSIC 004), Music Promotional and Marketing Objects Collection (MUSIC 023), Music Calendar Collection (MUSIC 025), and Record Flat Collection (MUSIC 047).

Biographies of individual artists are cataloged individually and can be found using the BGSU library catalog.

Some related material may also be found in: Record Auction, Catalogs, and Communication Collection (MUSIC 002); Playbills and Souvenir Programs Collection (MUSIC 026); Popular Music Trading Card Collection (MUSIC 036); Record Flat Collection (MUSIC 047); Cardboard Display and Standee Collection (MUSIC 048); Music Button collection (MUSIC 049); Record Release and Coupling Notices (MUSIC 051)

Sources of Acquisition

Collection was created by MLBSSA staff using donations from a number of sources, with significant contributions from the following individuals: Bill Anderson, R. Serge Denisoff, David Ginsburg, Rev. Keith Gordon, Anastasia Pantsios, Bill Randle, Bob Sarka, and Bill Schurk.