subj15. Holdings related to Music

Acknowledgement This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services award MH-245560-OMS-20. Scope and Contents The Mildred Ellis papers consists of 8.59 linear feet of correspondence, photographs, ephemera, news clippings, music recital programs, and other memorabilia, providing an extensive view into the life and career of composer and musician, Dr. Mildred Ellis. Also included in this collection are records from the...

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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...

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 Willard B. Gatewood, Jr. collection includes a 26-page typescript essay by Gatewood, "Black Aristocracy in the Age of Washington." The collection also contains a transcription of an interview with Julia Moore Griffin by her granddaughter, Margot Daniell, and sheet music (circa 1942) for a Creole lullaby "Go To Sleep/ Fais Do Do" arranged by Camille Nickerson.

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 Annabelle Bernard’s papers reflect more than forty years of her extensive career as an internationally renowned opera singer. Her papers consist of news clippings; correspondence; programs in English, German and Italian; photographs; and critical reviews documenting Bernard’s career. Also included are two...

Content Description The Laurraine R. Goreau includes the libretto, music, piano score, correspondence, clipping, and two audition tapes (audiocassette) regarding her folk opera "The Ballad of Catfoot Grimes," based on the poem of the same title by Hodding Carter II. The Flood song is on the audition tapes, it was performed by the University of Georgia Chorus and conducted by Eva Jessye. Clipping is a photocopy and contains biographical data regarding Goreau, journalist and author of the biography of...

Content Description Two reel-to-reel audio tapes of interviews with Dr. Frederick Douglass Hall, Sr., conducted by Harry Eskew in July and August of 1976. Hall was then head of the Music Department at Dillard University. Hall, a Rosenwald Fellow, had an active career on faculty of Dillard University, Jackson State University, Alabama State University, and Southern University. Interviews discuss Hall's childhood, his experiences as a musician and as a faculty member at historically Black colleges and...

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Includes correspondence, clippings, biographical data, photographs, and ephemera related to the career of Eddie V. Bonnemere - a proponent of jazz music in liturgical settings. Also includes an audiocassette of Bonnemere's album Isn't it Odd?