Drama

Sub-Series — flat box: ACC-MSS 019 Box 09

Identifier: ACC-MSS 019-2-2

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Items contain a variety of both episodic and serialized dramatic programming, such as adventure, religious, detective, and police/crime stories. Also includes dramatizations of classic works of fiction and motion pictures adapted for radio. See partial inventory in Series 3 for further information about episode titles contained on CDs.

Dates

1926 - 1993

Creator

From the Collection: Mintz, Aaron (Person)

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

Records in English.

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open to researchers. No materials may be taken out of or borrowed from the Emerson College Archives & Special Collections.

Biographical / Historical

After studying broadcasting in college, Aaron Mintz spent twenty years working part time for local Western Massachusetts radio stations WMUA, WHAI, and WDRC, playing songs for a weekly program called "Rock and Roll Memory Time." These programming blocks consisted of themed lineups, focusing on hits of the 1950s and 1960s with featured "sound bites" of current events, news, and pop culture facts of the time. To amass content for the show, Mintz developed a strong network of contacts among his fellow broadcasters and began collecting. Former classmates also contributed to his findings, and he was inspired to digitize many of these rare materials after discovering a keen community for radio content on the Internet.