Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The Library of Congress has acquired the papers of songwriter and composer Burt Bacharach. Bacharach’s songs are best known for influencing popular music starting in the late 1950s. This is the first collection acquired from a recipient of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. Songwriting duo Burt Bacharach and Hal David received the Gershwin Prize in 2012.
DOI: 10.5860/crln.86.1.44
Author: David Free
Language: English
Subfield: Conservation
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4406202902