subj15. Holdings related to Music

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This collection includes two photographs, a sheet of blank stationary, two press clippings, and a discography on the career of composer and singer J. Rosamond Johnson.

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Small collection pertaining to vocalist Emme Kemp. Includes a videorecording of her performance at a 1998 concert commemorating the 125th birthday of W. C. Handy. Also includes articles and ephemera on Kemp, many of which pertain to Handy's anniversary event.

Content Description This collection consists of material gathered for a 1995 exhibition on Robert Emmet Kennedy, a Gretna, Louisiana, native and musician. Kennedy's interests were in Negro spirituals and Chinese folksongs. He also authored several publications on the African American experience in Louisiana. Included in the collection are photocopies of correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, excerpts from Kennedy's books, and biographical information. Also included is promotional material related to...

Scope and Contents The papers of prominent Memphis civic leader, politician, and insurance professional George Washington Lee, more commonly known as Lieutenant Lee, reflect his affiliation with the Republican Party for over five decades. Correspondence includes letters from several Republican United States Presidents from either before or during their presidency, including Calvin Coolidge (1924), Herbert Hoover (1928), Dwight D. Eisenhower (1952), and Richard Nixon (1964). Other correspondents...

Content Description Hannibal Lokumbe was born Hannibal Marvin Peterson in Smithville, Texas, on November 11, 1948. He attended school at North Texas State College in Denton, Texas, between 1967 and 1969. Later he moved to New York City to pursue his musical career, and has traveled throughout Europe and Japan expressing his artistic works. In 1999, Lokumbe came to the Amistad Research Center for a residency program to convey his skills to the New Orleans area. In February 2002, he presented a small oratorio...

Content Description The Louisiana Music Collection consists principally of photocopies of nineteenth century sheet music, both printed and in manuscript. The music is divided into two groups: 1) works and related materials by or about African American composers, principally Creoles of color who were free during the antebellum period; 2) work of and related materials about arrangers, both White and Black, and non-African American composers, especially white Creoles and persons of Italian or Mexican decent. Of...

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The papers document the career of composer, arranger, and pianist Loretta Manggrum and includes 0.2 linear feet of musical scores, news clippings and audiocassette recordings of Manggrum’s performances. Items of note within the collection are audiocassettes of a 1980 interview with Manggrum and a recording of the program “Can’t You See," a Cantata Composed by Loretta C. Manggrum, a Sermon in Song” (undated).

Scope and Contents Maurice Martinez Jr. was born to Mildred and Maurice Martinez Sr. in New Orleans, Louisiana. He attended Xavier University in New Orleans and the University of Michigan. In addition to being a successful poet, musician, and filmmaker, he was a professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. In 1976, he directed the documentary The Black Indians of New Orleans. He hosted North Carolina Blues Notes, a public radio program. Since the 1970s and...

Content Description This collection includes 59 audiocassette tape interviews with 27 Louisiana-based musicians across multiple genres, including jazz, zydeco, classical, R&B, and Mardi Gras Indian traditions. The collection was formed out of a project funded by NOJHF and coordinated by Tom Dent from 1983-1988. The Foundation donated the collection to Amistad prior to the formation of its own archives.Interviewees include Placide Adams, Alvin Alcorn, Morris Ardoin, Danny Barker, Alvin Batiste,...