Klaus Kuhnke Archive for Popular Music
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| Archive type | Music archive |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 4 '25 " N , 8 ° 48' 33" E |
| place | Bremen |
| Visitor address | Dechanatstr. 13–15 28195 Bremen |
| founding | 1975 |
| scope | approx. 110,000 sound carriers, 5,500 books and 160 magazines |
| ISIL | DE-Bre18 (Klaus Kuhnke Archive for Popular Music gGmbH) |
| carrier | Klaus Kuhnke Archive for Popular Music gGmbH |
| Website | kkarchiv.de |
The Klaus Kuhnke Archive for Popular Music (KKA) is a music library for popular music in Bremen . It was founded in 1975 as a non-profit limited company and has been an affiliated institute at the Bremen University of the Arts since 1991 .
history
The Klaus Kuhnke Archive was founded in 1975 by the then Radio Bremen editors Klaus Kuhnke , Manfred Miller and Peter Schulze as the Archive for Popular Music GmbH.
After the death of Klaus Kuhnke , the archive was renamed the Klaus Kuhnke Archive for Popular Music non-profit GmbH . He was succeeded by Klaus Kuhnke in 1998 by Richard Weize . Ulrich Duve is the head of the archive.
Since 1991 the archive has been located in the building of the former grammar school , in which the music department of the Bremen University of the Arts is now located. The archive officially became an affiliated institute of the Bremen University of the Arts.
The archive is a member of the IASA country group Germany / Switzerland .
collection
It contains collections from, among others, Klaus Kuhnke , Manfred Miller , Peter Schulze , Friedel Muders and Ingolf Wachler from all areas of popular music, jazz , rock , folk music , soul and blues .
In the online database are now more than 90,000 titles acquired ( Album Search , song search , literature search , author search ). Internet access averages 25,000 per month. In contrast to many other databases, all of the Klaus Kuhnke archive data are physically available as verified material.
Sound carriers ( shellac , vinyl , CD , cassettes , tapes ), books ( biographies , systematic books , encyclopedias ) and periodicals (partly in full, partly on microfilm ) are archived there. The archive has an extremely comprehensive repertoire of rare copies of record history (especially the vinyl era), which is unique in Germany and Europe in terms of its stylistic diversity .
Duration
- Around 120,000 sound carriers (1000 shellac, 50,000 vinyl, 30,000 CD, cassettes, tapes)
- Around 8,000 books (biographies, systematic books, encyclopedias, discographies)
- over 160 periodicals (partly complete, partly on microfilm)
- approx. 1,100 DVDs
- approx. 700 VHS videos
- Reference library
Photo views from the archive
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Kuhnke Archive for Popular Music. German Music Information Center, September 13, 2016, accessed on November 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Klaus Kuhnke Archive | HFK BREMEN. Retrieved January 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Miriam Pfeil, Lilienthal-Gymnasium, Berlin: Musikarchiv: Unterirdische Klangwelten . ISSN 0174-4909 ( Online [accessed January 24, 2019]).
- ^ Klaus Kuhnke Archive for Popular Music | Bremen Archives working group. Retrieved January 24, 2019 (German).