Gal Costa was the face of Tropicália, music born out of Brazilian counterculture. She mixed Brazilian and non-Brazilian music styles and experimented with the timbre of her voice. Her diasporic and avant-garde style influenced Brazilian popular music and defied a dictatorship.

For the "Food Marvelous Food" display, we aimed for delightful instead of disgusting, which is harder than you would think. Which album below is the original? Details in the description. Come see our display for more. What's your fave food album cover? Grossest one?

We are closed today, December 23, 2022. We will be open again January 3, 2023.

We are closed today and tomorrow in observance of MLK, Jr. Day, but you can view some of our James Baldwin LPs on the first floor of Jerome. Did you know Baldwin taught at BGSU?

Just a reminder: We are closed March 5th and 12th and open from 8 am to 5 pm March 6th to 10th because of Spring Break.

Did you know two women started audiobooks? Marianne Mantell (née Roney) and Barbara Holdridge (née Cohen), founded Caedmon Records, which included multiple genres (children's to sci-fi) and formats (work read by the author to a full-cast recording). Come see our display!#HERstory

Join the BGSU Music Library as we celebrate thousands of our oldest sound recordings being included in the Internet Archive’s @great78project! The Teaching Kitchen will be serving mocktails while we enjoy musical selections from the collection on March 21 from 3-5 p.m. #BGSU #BGSULibraries

Just a reminder that MLBSSA is part of the Summer Research Institute. Come research our archives! bgsu.edu/library/pcl/su…

For BGSU One Day, please consider donating to the Sherri Long Memorial Scholarship. While not part of MLBSSA, she worked with us to make our materials accessible to outside researchers thru ILL. bgsu.edu/alumni/oneday.…

Our annual day of giving, #BGSUOneDay starts tomorrow! Look for more information about University Libraries' featured funds coming soon. Early giving is open at bgsu.edu/oneday #BGSULibraries #BGSU

Congratulations to MLBSSA student worker Colin Hochstetler for his BGSU Center for Research & Scholarship (CURS) research presentation entitled, "Beyond Ambient Music: Space Music and Its Functions in North American Planetariums." He applied for and received a grant for his research.

MLBSSA will be closed tomorrow, Tuesday, July 4th. Come see us from 8 am to 5 pm for the rest of the week.

If you'd like to read more about our partnership with the Internet Archive, click on this link: blog.archive.org/2023/07/18/bow…

Happy 50th Birthday Hip-Hop! We wouldn't be us without you.

Reminder: The arts are an occupation. Labor and labor rights are not confined to one gender. MLBSSA is closed from September 2nd to the 4th for Labor Day Weekend.

While what we have is great, this is just a reminder that our staff can help you with music-related issues in person or online: bgsu.edu/library/music/…