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2024 Commencement Program, Columbia College Chicago

Commencement Programs

The commencement program of the 2024 Columbia College Chicago graduation ceremonies.

When Language Fails: A Critical Analysis Essay Of Kathryn Stockett’S The Help:, Evan Mccreary

Black Album Mixtape

A critical analysis essay of Kathryn Stockett's New York Times Bestselling book, The Help, and it's subsequent film adaptation, and how in recent years, particularly following the murder of George Floyd, the story has been used as a classroom tool for teaching students about racism and its effects. Written by a Black student in a primarily white school community, this essay was written as an antithesis to the ideology that the book and movie exceed their intended intentions of being a beneficial teaching tool to youth.

Guide To The Jean Stor Collection, Columbia College Chicago

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Jean Stor was the pseudonym of William Astor Morgan, a composer, choral conductor, and playwright, who worked mainly in New York City. The collection contains manuscripts and scores for a number of symphonies, tone poems, concertos and other classical works, along with choral works, spiritual arrangements, art songs, popular songs, and theatrical numbers as well as several play scripts, short stories, and photographs.

2023 Commencement Program, Columbia College Chicago

Commencement Programs

The commencement program of the 2023 Columbia College Chicago graduation ceremonies.

2023 Manifest Program, Columbia College Chicago

Manifest Urban Arts Festival Programs

A program for the Manifest Urban-Arts Festival held by Columbia College Chicago on May 12, 2023.

Guide To The Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson Collection, Columbia College Chicago

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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.

2022 Commencement Program, Columbia College Chicago

Commencement Programs

The commencement program of the 2022 Columbia College Chicago graduation ceremonies.

Capturing Quarantine: Student Pandemic Experience Journal, Mackenzie Maples

Public History Journals

Journal entries submitted by the Public History 2021 summer session class at Columbia College Chicago reflecting on aspects of the global pandemic from the student perspective commenting on their personal pandemic timeline and the other is an essay about what each student learned so far from the pandemic.

2021 Commencement Program, Columbia College Chicago

Commencement Programs

The commencement program of the 2021 Columbia College Chicago graduation ceremonies.

Capturing Quarantine: Student Pandemic Experience Journal, Sandra Walkowicz

Public History Journals

Journal entries submitted by the Public History 2021 spring semester class at Columbia College Chicago reflecting on aspects of the global pandemic from the student perspective commenting on their personal pandemic timeline and the other is an essay about what each student learned so far from the pandemic.

Capturing Quarantine: Student Pandemic Experience Journal, Taylor Koski

Public History Journals

Journal submitted from the first Public History 2020 summer session class at Columbia College Chicago reflecting on aspects of the global pandemic from the student perspective.

Capturing Quarantine: Student Pandemic Experience Journal, Peyton Cooper

Public History Journals

Journal submitted from the first Public History 2020 summer session class at Columbia College Chicago reflecting on aspects of the global pandemic from the student perspective.

Capturing Quarantine: Student Pandemic Experience Journal, Annaliese Munn

Public History Journals

Journal submitted from the first Public History 2020 summer session class at Columbia College Chicago reflecting on aspects of the global pandemic from the student perspective.

2020 Commencement Program, Columbia College Chicago

Commencement Programs

The commencement program of the 2023 Columbia College Chicago graduation ceremonies.

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 Martin Williams Collection, Columbia College Chicago

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Martin Williams was a music critic specializing in jazz and American popular culture and the collection includes published articles, unpublished manuscripts, files and correspondence, and music scores of jazz compositions. He wrote for major jazz periodicals, especially Down Beat, co-founded The Jazz Review and was the author of numerous books on jazz.

Guide To The Sue Cassidy Clark Collection, Columbia College Chicago

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Sue Cassidy Clark is a music journalist and photographer who specialized in soul, gospel, and rock music in the late 1960s and early 1970s and the collection contains her recorded interviews, interview transcripts, and other research materials for her interviews of the musical pioneers she interviewed.

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 Eileen Southern Collection, Columbia College Chicago

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The Eileen Southern Collection contains documents and information that was drawn upon by Southern in her published books and articles and in the journal she and her husband, Joseph Southern, published from 1973 until 1990, The Black Perspective in Music. Also included are papers from when she served as Department Chair of the Afro-American Studies Department at Harvard, as well as correspondence between W. C. Handy and William Grant Still.

View an online exhibit from Harvard University about Eileen Southern.

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 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 Collection Of De Paur Chorus Materials, Columbia College Chicago

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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 Melba Liston Collection, Columbia College Chicago

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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 Patsy Ford Simms Collection, Columbia College Chicago

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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.

2019 Commencement Program, Columbia College Chicago

Commencement Programs

The commencement program of the 2019 Columbia College Chicago graduation ceremonies.

2019 Manifest Program, Columbia College Chicago

Manifest Urban Arts Festival Programs

A program for the Manifest Urban-Arts Festival held by Columbia College Chicago on May 10, 2019

Echo: Home, Spring 2019, Columbia College Chicago

Echo

Student-produced magazine formerly published as Chicago Arts and Communication, changed to Echo magazine in 1997. Articles: Not Your Dumping Ground; Behind Closed Doors; Disconnecting in the Digital Age; Hashing It Out and others separated into Utility, Beauty, and Durability categories. 100 pages.

Columbia Poetry Review, Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Poetry Review

Literary journal produced annually featuring new poems. Senior Editors: Harley Anastasia Chapman, Morgan Peacock. Editors, Ju'Juan Day, Darcy Dillon, Maya Fuller, Jalen Isley, Lee Johnson, Katie Lynn Johnston, Gillian Marwood, Sara McNally, Lauren Pious, Jaida Page Smigielski, Jackson V. Smith, Lily Someson, Annella Thomas, Danielle Uppleger, Lauren Young. Cover: Jay Goebel. 145 pages.

Demo 29, Columbia College Chicago

Alumni Newsletters

Alumni newsletter from Fall-Winter 2018 entitled "DEMO 29." This issue is 48 pages.

2018 Commencement Program, Columbia College Chicago

Commencement Programs

The commencement program of the 2018 Columbia College Chicago graduation ceremonies.