page_title: National Recording Registry
section_title: 2002
hierarchical_section_title: National Recording Registry / Inductees / 2002
caption_attribution_description: English: Billie Holiday at the Downbeat club, a jazz club in New York City. [1]
context_page_description: The National Recording Registry is a list of sound recordings that "are culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States." The registry was established by the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, which created the National Recording Preservation Board, whose members are appointed by the Librarian of Congress. The recordings preserved in the United States National Recording Registry form a registry of recordings selected yearly by the National Recording Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Congress.
  The National Recording Preservation Act of 2000 established a national program to guard America's sound recording heritage. The Act created the National Recording Registry, The National Recording Preservation Board and a fund-raising foundation. The purpose of the Registry is to maintain and preserve sound recordings and collections of sound recordings that are culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. Beginning in 2002, the National Recording Preservation Board has selected recordings nominated each year to be preserved.
  The first four yearly lists each had 50 selections.
context_section_description: On January 27, 2003, the following 50 selections were announced by the National Recording Preservation Board.
caption: "Strange Fruit", a protest song against lynching black people, was originally sung by one of jazz's essential vocalists Billie Holiday.
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