Cuban-American Radionovelas in the Louis J. Boeri and Minin Bujones Collection

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Description & Rationale

160 reel-to-reel audio tapes selected from the Louis J. Boeri and Minín Bujones Collection of Cuban Radionovelas housed at the Latin American Library at Tulane University will be converted from analog to digital format. They will then be hosted on Tulane's Digital Library. These materials are among the more than 9,100 masters of recordings of radio programs produced and broadcasted by America’s Production Inc. out of Miami during the 1960s. They constitute a unique research resource that is currently trapped on aging, unstable audio tapes with moderate to severe condition issues and inaccessible due to a lack of functioning playback equipment.

Reasons for consideration:

The Louis J. Boeri and Minín Bujones Collection of Cuban Radionovelas at Tulane’s Latin American Library contains unique audio recordings of popular soap operas that have remained unavailable to scholars or to the general public since they first aired in the 1960s. These materials are an important source of information pertaining to the history of mass media, particularly radio, in the United States and Latin America, as well as to the history of the Cold War more broadly.

Author(s):

America's Productions, Inc.

Source Format:

Audio

Target Format:

Digital

Program:

LARRP

Resource Types:

Other

Regions:

Latin America and Caribbean

North America

Countries of Origin:

United States

Proposal Contributors:

Christine Hernandez, Tulane University

Posted:

Oct 2, 2018 3:18pm

Updated:

Oct 3, 2018 11:05am

Source Details

Major Languages:

Spanish

Holding Institutions:

Tulane University

Physical Details:

The Radionovelas Collection currently resides in the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library’s offsite facility where environmental conditions are monitored and maintained by Liebert HVAC units. The storage environment is kept to an average temperature of 68°F and an average humidity of 40%. Nevertheless, the audio tapes are by their nature, unstable carriers that are under siege by some condition issues. Our most immediate concern is mold. Of the 9,161 tapes in the collection, approximately 20% are affected by mold and we deem these to be of top priority for cleaning and conversion. Currently, all moldy tapes have been contained in plastic enclosures. A range of tape pack issues (curling, cinching, popped strands, and the like) are also present to varying degrees across the collection.

Activity

Status	Current	Description
Flagged	no	The proposal is flagged for further research.
Vetted	no	The proposal has been examined and vetted.
Ballotted	no	The proposal is currently on a committee ballot.
Approved	no	The proposal has been selected for reformatting. Reformatting efforts are pending.
Reformatted	yes	The proposal has been reformatted and access information is now posted.
Inactive / Declined	no	No longer under consideration for reformatting.