subj15. Holdings related to Music

Content Description Moses Hogan was a native of New Orleans and a well-known classical pianist, composer, and internationally renowned arranger of American Spirituals. He was a member of the first class of the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. He studied with jazz pianist Ellis Marsalis and won a scholarship to Oberlin College and later studied at The Julliard School. In 1980, Hogan started the New World Ensemble choir, which he composed for. During the 1990s he formed the Moses Hogan Chorale and later the...

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This collection contains magazines, brochures, clippings and other publications and ephemera on folklore, folklife festivals and the folk masters music series. Other materials include audiotapes, news clippings, programs, and various performances recorded live at the Barns of Wolf Trap.

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,...

Content Description The collection consists of research materials Dr. Josephine Susannah Norton developed during trips to the West Indies, Ghana, and while working on her thesis at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies.  The collection is rich with documentation on languages, folklore, and music from the Caribbean and West Africa.  Research materials regarding African American dialects and language are also extensively covered in the collection.  Slides from her trips to Ghana and...

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Largely consisting of family correspondence, this collection also includes photographs, a scrapbook, various ephemera, and a wedding announcement. The collection also includes some materials from the Oberlin College class of 1899.

Content Description This collection reflects the contributions of members of the Chicago Chapter of the Friends of the Amistad Research Center documenting African American historical, political, and cultural organizations in Chicago and throughout the United States. The collection consists of collected materials including collected speeches, programs, clippings, sheet music, photographs, and other miscellaneous formats. The organization is also documented through materials from the chapter's founding in 1979....

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The Cincinnati Chapter of the Friends of the Amistad Research Center collection encompasses collected materials regarding the history of African Americans in Cincinnati. The collection contains correspondence, financial records, invitations, meeting minutes, newsletters, photographs, programs, and other ephemera. primarily regarding activities in the Cincinnati area.

Of interest is information on gospel music, including collected materials on the Cincinnati Gospel Choral Union

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One television script by Ellis Cooper entitled "Tine Lee." The biographical television drama script about Leontyne Price begins with her infancy and highlights events in her career, including concerts in her hometown of Laurel, Mississippi. Events in her life span the years from 1927 to 1969.

Content Description Sammy Davis Jr. was born on December 8, 1925, in New York City and began his career in entertainment at the age of three in 1928 in vaudeville with the Will Mastin Trio. He was part of the Rat Pack in Hollywood along with actors and singers Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. Davis was a renown singer and dancer who made numerous television appearances and movies such as 1959s “Porgy & Bess” and “Ocean’s Eleven” in 1960. This collection consists of photocopies of new clippings covering Sammy...

Scope and Contents This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services award MH-245560-OMS-20. Content Description The Dent Family papers addendum include the personal, professional, and collected papers of Albert Walter Dent (1904-1984) and Ernestine Jessie Covington Dent (1904-2001). The papers break down into six series: the papers of Albert Walter Dent, the papers of Ernestine Jessie Covington Dent, images, ephemera,...