By Rory Grennan, Kate Lambaria, Katie Nichols, Somer Pelczar, and Emily Schneider
Collection Overview
Title: Periscope Records, 1993-2014
ID: 12/9/141
Extent: 3.5 cubic feet
Arrangement:
Organized in three series: Series 1, Marci Dodds Professional Papers, 1996-2010; Series 2, Scope Publication Files, 1993-1998; and Series 3, Periscope Business Records, 1990-1997, which has three subseries: Subseries 1, Administrative Materials; Subseries 2, Photographs; and Subseries 3, Sound Recordings.
Subject Files in Series 1 are arranged alphabetically. Floppy disks in Series 2 are arranged by type of material, and chronologically thereunder. Series 3 is arranged chronologically within subseries. All other materials, including the sound recordings in Series 1, are arranged chronologically.
Date Acquired: 03/00/2015
Languages: English [eng]
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Consists of office records, transcriptions, sound recordings, and publications documenting the operations of the Periscope Records music retailer and record label, including editorial files and published issues of the Scope newsletter and the Octopus weekly tabloid newsaper. Of particular interest are recordings and transcriptions of interviews conducted by Marci Dodds for publication in Scope and the Octopus, with interviewees including Belle & Sebastian, Frank Black, Solomon Burke, the Eels, Absinthe Blind, Fu Manchu, the Reverend Horton Heat, Jonathan Pines, Iggy Pop, Smokey Robinson, Todd Rundgren, Matt Talbot, and Dave Wyndorf.
Administrative Information
Accruals:
3/31/2016
Acquisition Source:
Marci Dodds and Jon Sokolski
Acquisition Method:
donation
Box and Folder Listing