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Guide To The Godwin Sadoh Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Godwin Sadoh Collection, Columbia College Chicago
CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids
Dr. Godwin Sadoh is a Nigerian composer, educator, church musician, organist, pianist, choral conductor, and ethnomusicologist. He holds music degrees from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria; the University of Pittsburgh; the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; and Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, where he became the first African to receive a doctoral degree in organ performance from any institution in the world. The collection holds scores, publications, books, and recorded music
Playing Changes: Music As Mediator Between Japanese And Black Americans, E Taylor Atkins
Playing Changes: Music As Mediator Between Japanese And Black Americans, E Taylor Atkins
Faculty Books & Book Chapters
Since the mid-twentieth century, music has played a central role in encounters and interactions between the people of Japan and those of African descent. It proved far more effective for pro- moting interracial dialogue and understanding than efforts in the early 1900s to foster an alliance against white supremacy and imperialism. This essay unpacks the ways that encounters with Black music transformed Japanese musicking and generated knowledge and empathy for people of African descent among Japanese. Personal interactions between Black and Japanese musicians constituted a process of “grassroots globalization” that circumvented the dominance of American mass media in representing African …
Guide To The Andrew “Andy” Gibbons Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Andrew “Andy” Gibbons Collection, Columbia College Chicago
CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids
Focused on jazz trumpeter and vocalist, Louis Armstrong, the Andrew H. Gibbons collection consists of sound recordings, papers, and books related to Louis Armstrong, collected by the donor, Dr. Andy Gibbons, whose research focus centered on the performer.
Director's Statement, Andrea Leland
Guide To The Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson Collection, Columbia College Chicago
CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson was a composer, conductor, and pianist who composed classical, jazz, and popular music containing elements of spirituals, folk music, and blues. He was founding member and associate conductor of the Symphony for the New World, and had a long career as a composer includes activities in classical music, jazz, and film and television. The collection consists of scores, a scrapbook, programs, and publicity about his career from 1949 to 2004.
Guide To The Reginald L. Davenport House Music Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Reginald L. Davenport House Music Collection, Columbia College Chicago
CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids
Reginald L Davenport came of age to the sound of hot mixing Chicago radio DJs during the 1980s and he carried his love of house music to the United Kingdom when he left home to serve in the armed forces abroad, DJ’ing around England when he wasn’t on base. The collection contains flyers primarily from the United Kingdom of house music venues in which he DJ’ed, tapes of his mixes, and documents related to his work.
Guide To The Robert Leigh Morris Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Robert Leigh Morris Collection, Columbia College Chicago
CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids
Robert Leigh Morris (b. 1941) is an American composer and music instructor. The Robert Leigh Morris Collection contains his personal music scores, from published works to drafts, and programs from his performances, as well as scores by other composers. Professional correspondences, documents, and some of Morris’s writings are also included.
Corine Lanier Adams Music Education Collection, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
Corine Lanier Adams Music Education Collection, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
Finding Aids
This collection contains materials created and collected by Corinne Lanier Adams in her role as a professional music educator in Evans County, Georgia. Materials are dated 1877 to 1951 and include elementary educational materials, school papers, sheet music on popular music, especially of the 1920s and 30s, music books, school plays, and an assortment of magazines.
Find this collection in the University Libraries' catalog.
Guide To The Charles 'Chuck' Suber Collection, Charles Suber
Guide To The Charles 'Chuck' Suber Collection, Charles Suber
CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids
The Charles 'Chuck' Suber collection reflects his activities as the First Chorus columnist for Down Beat magazine, his work toward restoring funding to Chicago Public Schools for music and arts programs, and his interview by Richard Wang recalling memories and musicians from his life.
Richard 'Dick' Wang Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Richard 'Dick' Wang Collection, Columbia College Chicago
CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids
Richard Wang was a musician, historian, and educator specializing in jazz. The collection consists of a series of arrangements by Mary Lou Williams, a jazz pianist, arranger, and composer, and an interview he conducted with Charles Suber, a jazz critic, educator, journalist, and Down Beat columnist.
Guide To The Cheryl A. Wall Collection Of Margaret Bonds And Florence Price Manuscript Scores, Margaret Bonds, Florence Price
Guide To The Cheryl A. Wall Collection Of Margaret Bonds And Florence Price Manuscript Scores, Margaret Bonds, Florence Price
CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids
Cheryl A. Wall was a literary critic and English professor at Rutgers University who donated three manuscript scores to the CBMR – Troubled Water by Margaret Bonds with a handwritten autobiographical sketch by the composer on the back and two works by Florence Price, Negro Fantasy and Concerto in One Movement for three pianos. The Bonds score was given to Cheryl Wall by the composer and the two Price scores belonged to her aunt, Nannie Strayhorn Reid, a classical pianist and teacher in Chicago, Illinois.
Nicholas Catalano, Phd, Nicholas Catalano
Nicholas Catalano, Phd, Nicholas Catalano
Oral History
From 1964 to 2019, Professor Nicholas Catalano taught literature at Pace and also served as the University Director for Performing Arts. Professor Catalano also founded many popular clubs--the Drama club, Wig and Mask society, Glee club, a football team, as well as a study abroad program in Greece that continues to this day.
Mf111 Folksong In February Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf111 Folksong In February Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Finding Aids
NA2596 David Mallett, David Ingraham, Charlie Nevells, Larry Kaplan, Edward D. "Sandy" Ives, Kendall Morse, Margaret MacArthur, Norman Kennedy, Louis and Sally Killen, Yodelin' Slim Clark, Charlotte Cormier, Sparky Rucker, Sandy and Caroline Paton, Hazel Dickens, Tim Woodbridge, Joe Hickerson, Debby McClatchy, Gordon Bok, Sean Corcoran, Bill Shute and Lisa Null, by Maine Folklife Center, February, 1977, Orono, Maine. Recordings of a folk music concert program called "Folksongs in February" held at the University of Maine in February, 1977. Accession includes 8 black & white contact sheets of 35 mm photos of the performances. Text: 36 pp. index and copies …
Mf018 Folksong Student Papers, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf018 Folksong Student Papers, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Finding Aids
This collection contains a series of student projects on folksongs in America.
Guide To The Bo Diddley Track Program At American Society On Aging & The Gerontological Society Of America Annual Conferences Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Bo Diddley Track Program At American Society On Aging & The Gerontological Society Of America Annual Conferences Collection, Columbia College Chicago
CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids
The Bo Diddley Track Program at American Society on Aging & the Gerontological Society of America Annual Conferences Collection consist of sound and video recordings, meeting materials, photographs and posters for a program track at the two major gerontological societies annual conferences in the United States, honoring elderly blues musicians: the American Society on Aging and the Gerontological Society of America. The event was conceived and created by Michael Marcus and John Migliaccio.
Guide To The Collection Of De Paur Chorus Materials, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Collection Of De Paur Chorus Materials, Columbia College Chicago
CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids
The Collection of De Paur Chorus Materials is small and holds sound recordings, photographs and ephemera documenting the De Paur Chorus and its activities, primarily during the early 1950s, a chorus established by Leonard de Paur.
Guide To The Eddie "Memphis" Curtis Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Eddie "Memphis" Curtis Collection, Columbia College Chicago
CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids
Eddie Curtis (Memphis E. Curtis) was a composer, arranger, and singer. The collection consists primarily of manuscript lead sheets for his original compositions, manuscript scores and parts, and other materials relating to his musical career.
Guide To The Paul Freeman Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Paul Freeman Collection, Columbia College Chicago
CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids
Paul Freeman was a conductor, composer, and founder of the Chicago Sinfonietta. The collection contains conductor scores, recordings, and other materials related to his conducting performances with the Chicago Sinfonietta and other orchestras.
Guide To The Herbert Zane Knauss Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Herbert Zane Knauss Collection, Columbia College Chicago
CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids
Herbert Zane Knauss served as the University of South Carolina's Director of Information Services and was a jazz enthusiast who combined his musical passion with local history by creating a documentary about South Carolina native Dizzy Gillespie titled Cheraw for Dizzy. The collection holds radio broadcasts Zane Knauss produced about jazz artists and the original soundtrack for his documentary film about Dizzy Gillespie.
Guide To The Dena J. Epstein Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Dena J. Epstein Collection, Columbia College Chicago
CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids
The Dena J. Epstein Collection consists of correspondence, reference notes and materials, articles and presentations, illustration photographs, biographical information, and an oral history transcript which span her nearly 60 year career as music librarian and historian.
Guide To The Collection Of Materials On The National Association Of Negro Musicians (Nanm), Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Collection Of Materials On The National Association Of Negro Musicians (Nanm), Columbia College Chicago
CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids
The National Association of Negro Musicians (NANM) was founded in Chicago by a group of African-American professional musicians and composers to advance the education and careers of African-American musicians; there are local branches of NANM in many cities. The collection contains materials about the National Association of Negro Musicians and its history and activities, particularly the primary documents included in A Documentary History of the National Association of Negro Musicians, edited by Doris Evans McGinty.
Guide To The Paul Robeson Centennial Project Records, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Paul Robeson Centennial Project Records, Columbia College Chicago
CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids
These records chronicle the Chicago centennial project in honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Paul Robeson, actor, athlete, singer, and activist, headquartered at Columbia College Chicago; one of many such local committees who came together globally.
Guide To The Melba Liston Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Melba Liston Collection, Columbia College Chicago
CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids
The Melba Liston Collection primarily documents her careers as arranger, composer, and educator rather than her accomplishments as a trombonist. It contains lead sheets to her own and other people’s compositions and manuscript scores of many of her arrangements for Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, and Mary Lou Williams, among others. One extensive series contains numerous arrangements for Randy Weston, and her late computer scores for him are also present.
Guide To The Wendell Wright Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Wendell Wright Collection, Columbia College Chicago
CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids
The Wendell G. Wright Collection consists primarily of materials relating to the Lois J. Wright Memorial Concert Series as well as programs and correspondence. Also included are several published musical scores by Black composers and manuscript and facsimile manuscripts of Gerald Burks Wilson.
Guide To The Evelyn Davidson White Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Evelyn Davidson White Collection, Columbia College Chicago
CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids
Evelyn Davidson White, a professor of music at Howard University, was an educator, choral instructor, scholar, clinician, mezzo-soprano vocalist, and author who authored Choral Music by African-American Composers. The collection contains published and unpublished choral music by Black composers.
Guide To The Patsy Ford Simms Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Patsy Ford Simms Collection, Columbia College Chicago
CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids
Patsy Ford Simms is an internationally recognized arranger, composer and clinician who began writing and arranging out of necessity due to the lack of choral octavos for the junior high/middle school voice during the first decade of her teaching career. The collection contains original sheet music, arrangements, concert programs, press clippings, catalogues, and recordings.
Guide To The Alton Augustus Adams, Sr. Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Alton Augustus Adams, Sr. Collection, Columbia College Chicago
CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids
The Alton Augustus Adams, Sr. Collection reflects his activities as a bandmaster, a press correspondent, activities in the Hotel Association of the Virgin Islands, and as educator, civic leader, composer, author, and local historian in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.
Guide To The William C. Banfield Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The William C. Banfield Collection, Columbia College Chicago
CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids
William “Bill” Cedric Banfield is a professor and director of the Africana Studies/Music and Society initiative at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. The collection contains his compositions, including songs and jazz works, but is especially strong in concert music, correspondence, writings, and flyers and programs documenting his career.
Guide To The Ed Bland Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Ed Bland Collection, Columbia College Chicago
CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids
The Ed Bland Collection contains his scores and recordings of his compositions; his later works are primarily compositions for larger ensembles with each work listing the instrumentation required to perform the piece.
Guide To The Irene Britton Smith Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Irene Britton Smith Collection, Columbia College Chicago
CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids
Irene Britton Smith taught in the Chicago Public Schools and during summer vacations, studied music, eventually earning a MM from DePaul University. The collection contain her compositions for orchestra, solo violin, and piano and choral works and spiritual arrangements.