About ARC

ARChive of Contemporary Music

Board of Advisors David Bowie Jellybean Benitez Jonathan Demme Michael Feinstein Ellie Greenwich Jerry Leiber Youssou N’Dour Lou Reed Keith Richards Nile Rodgers Todd Rundgren Fred Schneider Martin Scorsese Paul Simon Mike Stoller Jerry Wexler   Board of Trustees Alan J. Bernstein Andrew Cohen Brian Cullman Adam Dolgins B. George Amy Larkin Bruce Rayvid Greg Shatan 54 White Street New York City, 10013 tel : 212–226–6967 e : INFO@arcmusiC.com www.arcmusic.org Federal ID # : 13-3347764 Exempt # :: EX 182731

in partnership with Columbia University  The ARChive of Contemporary Music is a not-for-profit music library       dedicated to collecting, preserving and providing information about popular music from around the world. Now in its twenty-fifth year of operation, ARC is the largest and most important popular music collection in the world – with over two million sound recordings and approximately three million photographs, books, press kits, videos, memorabilia and related ephemera. Our simple goal is to guarantee that the world’s musical heritage is preserved for future generations to study and enjoy. We believe that all forms of popular music, jazz, be-bop, bluegrass, country, rock, rap, blues, enka, reggae, calypso, zydeco, and countless other forms are significant cultural expressions.  All musics entertain as well as reveal a people and their values to the rest of the world.   ARC was founded in 1985 by Bob George, the current Director, and David Wheeler.  Fred Patterson is head archivist.  Will Susich is our newest archivists.  Alexis  Cavaretta is heading up the book scanning project and Beco Dranoff Brazilian World Music Day. Our Board of Advisors (listed on the left) is comprised of respected members of the music and entertainment community.  Board members create and maintain Special Collections, such as the 10,000 disc Keith Richards’ Blues Collection. ARC currently occupies over 14,000 sq. ft., at two sites in Tribeca, in Lower Manhattan. Our main office is on the ground floor at White Street. To move forward, and move towards allowing access to our collections, in early 2009 ARC partnered with Columbia University to create a major cultural institution merging academic study and popular music, to enrich and enhance the cultural life of New York City, the country and the world.