Marr Sound Archives

{{Short description|Audiovisual archive in Missouri, United States}}

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| name = Marr Sound Archives

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| creation = 1987

| country = United States

| address = 800 E 51st Street

| city = Kansas City, Missouri

| coordinates = {{coord|39|2|6.1|N|94|34|35.5|W}}

| affiliation = [https://library.umkc.edu/mnl/ Miller Nichols Library]

| site = {{URL|https://library.umkc.edu/sca/marr/}}

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The Marr Sound Archives is an audiovisual archive, a part of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Miller Nichols Library.{{cite book | last1=Komara | first1=E. | last2=Lee | first2=P. | title=The Blues Encyclopedia | publisher=Taylor & Francis | year=2004 | isbn=978-1-135-95831-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hwk3AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA605 | access-date=19 January 2024 | page=605}}

The collection includes extensive holdings of jazz, blues, country and popular music; historic voices and authors reading their own works; vintage radio programs; classical and opera. The Marr holds a wide range of historic formats including LPs, 78s, 45s, cylinders, transcription discs, instantaneous-cut discs and open-reel tapes. The archives maintain sound recordings for a number of archival for collections shared with LaBudde Special Collections.{{cite book | last=Sturman | first=J. | title=The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture | publisher=SAGE Publications | year=2019 | isbn=978-1-5063-5337-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L0OKDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT4170 | access-date=19 January 2024 | page=4170}}

The archives were created from a donation of 42,000 items by Olga and Gaylor Marr in 1987. As of 2023, the archives hold over 400,000 recordings.{{cite web | title=Marr Sound Archives | website=UMKC University Libraries | date=10 November 2023 | url=https://library.umkc.edu/sca/marr/ | access-date=19 January 2024}}