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Guide To The Reginald L. Davenport House Music Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Reginald L. Davenport House Music Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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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 Paul Freeman Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Paul Freeman Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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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 Dena J. Epstein Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Dena J. Epstein Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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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 Paul Robeson Centennial Project Records, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Paul Robeson Centennial Project Records, Columbia College Chicago
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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 Irene Britton Smith Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Irene Britton Smith Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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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.
Guide To The Lee V. Cloud Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Lee V. Cloud Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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Lee V. Cloud was a composer, educator and choral clinician who taught at several institutions, before serving as coordinator of Education for the Center for Black Music Research. His collection contains his scores and sketches as well as personal papers and programs.
Guide To The Dominique-René De Lerma Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Dominique-René De Lerma Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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Dominique-René de Lerma (1928–2015) was a prominent, pioneering scholar in black music research, an oboist, an author, and an educator. The collection contains his research materials, collected scores, and sound recordings.
Guide To The R. Nathaniel Dett Club Records, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The R. Nathaniel Dett Club Records, Columbia College Chicago
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The R. Nathaniel Dett Club Records contain the administrative records of this Chicago branch of the National Association of Negro Musicians (NANM) including bylaws, constitutions, minutes and agendas and also, programs from concerts and other events.
Guide To The Caleb Dube Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Caleb Dube Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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Caleb Dube was an ethnomusicology scholar and teacher who studied blues music through an anthropological framework. The Caleb Dube Collection primarily contain general research in the fields of cultural anthropology and ethnomusicology, along with more narrow research linking these two fields of study to Chicago, and the blues.
Guide To The Collection Of Lillian Evans Tibbs Materials, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Collection Of Lillian Evans Tibbs Materials, Columbia College Chicago
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Lillian Evans Tibbs was professionally know as Madame Lillian Evanti and this collection of materials consists of photographs of her in costume for various opera productions and a six-page manuscript of her autobiography prologue given as a speech in Chicago at the Century of Negro Progress Exposition in 1963.
Guide To The Alice Rosalee Marshall Collection Of Materials On The National Convention Of Gospel Choirs And Choruses (Ncgcc) And Other Gospel-Related Materials, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Alice Rosalee Marshall Collection Of Materials On The National Convention Of Gospel Choirs And Choruses (Ncgcc) And Other Gospel-Related Materials, Columbia College Chicago
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Alice Rosalee Marshall attended many of the NCGCC events, as well as churches in the Chicago area. She recorded services, revivals, and special events at local churches and at the NCGCC conventions. The collection consists of sound recordings on audiocassette of these events, church services, and choir rehearsals and programs and material from the conventions.
Guide To The Paul Eduard Miller Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Paul Eduard Miller Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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Paul Eduard Miller was a jazz critic and journalist who wrote from Down Beat and Esquire, and hosted a Chicago radio show called “This is Jazz”. The collection contains typescripts of his published and unpublished writings, radio scripts, playlists, photographs, sound recordings, and copies of his publications.
Guide To The Richard E. Stamz Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Richard E. Stamz Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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Richard E. Stamz was a broadcast pioneer and active member of Chicago’s Englewood community. His 1950s radio show on WGES, “Open the Door, Richard,” helped promote and popularize urban black musical genres such as soul, blues, and gospel, and was an outlet for advertisers to reach African American audiences. The collection includes material from his broadcasting career, his involvement in the Englewood community, and his personal life.
Guide To The Theodore Charles Stone Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Theodore Charles Stone Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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Theodore Charles Stone was a Chicago-based opera singer and journalist who served as president of both the National Association of Negro Musicians and Chicago Music Association. The collection provides insight into the African American operatic music scene throughout the 20th century.