In second-hand record stores across the world, next to the stacks of Beatles reissues and deluge of 1980s pop, there is usually a dusty bin of vinyl titled ‘library’. For casual music listeners, ...

For the past decade, the most sought after vintage musical rarities haven't just been old Northern Soul 45s, or original garage punk singles, or any of the kinds of music that have been compiled into ...

Back some time in the 1990s, David Hollander first discovered library music amongst the shelves of a shop called Record Supply in West Los Angeles. “While browsing the soundtrack section,” he writes ...

In the late 1960s, amid a boom in low-budget television and film productions, a generation of composers found work in library music. Imaginative, classically trained and phenomenally hard-working, ...

Though its motivations have shifted through time and space, library music was always meant to live on in some form or another. The quasi-ersatz genre was created to be taken, used, and folded into a ...