subj2. New Orleans Oral History Holdings

Scope and Contents The NOLA Hip Hop Archive was founded by Holly Hobbs, a Ph.D. candidate at Tulane University, in 2012. The goal of Hobbs’ project is to add to the growing body of documentation of hip hop and bounce oral histories in New Orleans, Louisiana, in order to highlight the music's role as an important community art form. With the assistance of videographer Dick Darby and production assistant Colin Meneghini, Hobbs conducted a series of videotaped interviews with hip hop and bounce artists and...

Scope and Contents This collection contains a cassette audiotape and transcription of a talk given by Liva Baker at the Amistad Research Center on October 22, 1996. The topic of Baker's talk was the recent publication of her book The Second Battle of New Orleans: The Hundred-Year Struggle to Integrate the Schools. Particular focus was given to individuals who played a role in the book: Rosa Freeman Keller, A.P. Tureaud, J. Skelly Wright, Daniel Ellis Byrd, John P. Nelson and...

Scope and Contents The Double Victory Oral History Collection consists of five oral histories of men who served in the military during World War II (WWII) and a panel discussion of veterans of WWII hosted by the Amistad Research Center. Also included are documents and photographs donated by Bennie Francis Sr., which consist of an introduction booklet on Fort Huachuca, passenger information on the U.S.S. Randolph CV-15, discharge papers, an identification dischargee certificate and an October 1944 letter to...

Scope and Contents This collection is made up of 3/4" U-matic videotapes of the television program Just for the Record - A T.V. Series for Gay People. Just for the Record was a weekly program produced on Cox Cable Channels 42 and 49 in New Orleans from 1987 to 1993, and was the city’s first LGBT+ television show. It covered both local and national topics of interest to the gay and lesbian community. It was produced by Valda Goodwin Lewis...

Scope and Contents As a central figure among a small group of jazz musicians and jazz educators who shaped the second 50 years of New Orleans jazz, the papers of Harold R. Battiste document Battiste's career as an influential composer, producer, educator, and promoter of modern jazz music. Also documented are Battiste's various business ventures in the area of music, including his work with Sonny and Cher and the foundation and history of All For One (A.F.O.) Records and At Last Publishing Co., the first...

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Transcription of an oral history interview conducted by Mary Ellison with musician Delfeayo Marsalis. The interview includes reminiscences of his family, jazz music, growing up in New Orleans, and other musicians.

Content Description This collection contains the raw footage and interviews for the documentary Yes Ma'am: Household Domestic Workers in New Orleans, which was directed and produced by Gary Goldman and was sponsored by the Amistad Research Center. The film provides an in-depth look at the profession of domestic service, race relations, injustice, and the importance of religion in the lives of domestic workers. The old order is contrasted with the new, in which the more militant...

Content Description The collection of journalist Robert Gagnier is intended to be a continuing collection comprised of interviews with various individuals in the realms of politics, media, music, and other areas. The collection consists of three audio interviews. Interviewees include Ray Charles Jr., former US Representative for California's 33rd congressional district Diane Watson, and New Orleans Police Detective Rob Barrere. The Ray Charles Jr. interview from 2016, entitled “In Search of Vibrational Meaning...

Content Description The WGBH Radio New Orleans Jazz Modules collection includes a series of nine audio histories of New Orleans jazz musicians and jazz scholars, each under ten minutes in length. Topics and/or artists include: Ellis Marsalis on teaching jazz; Jason Berry on jazz funerals; Roger Lewis; Ed Blackwell; Danny Barker; Edward "Kidd" Jordan; Blue Lou Barker; and African retention in New Orleans culture. Accompanying the audiocassette is a memorandum with a brief description of the content of each audio...

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...