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(A more up-to-date version of the collections page is available at afrovoices.com/collections)
Research Centers & Special CollectionsListed below are research centers and collections featuring or including a significant portion of material by or about African American musicians. Entries are not restricted to Classical vocal music.
African-American History Resources Recorded and printed sources of field recordings and lyrics of traditional songs, recordings of Gospel music, shaped-note singing, recordings of popular music from vintage blues, jazz and ragtime, and hundreds of pieces of sheet music and commercial recordings by African American singers and instrumentalists The African American Music
Collection Collections include: The Eva Jessye Collection, The Nathaniel C. Standifer Video Archive of Oral History, The Maxwell O. Reade Collection of Early Jazz and Blues Recordings, and the "Porgy and Bess: An American Voice" Holdings African American Musical Heritage Collection The collection consists of approximately 4000 pieces of published sheet music reflecting the influences of African Americans on popular music in the United States. The earliest piece in the collection dates back to 1818, and the more recent pieces date through the 1980's. Also included in the collection are music books, manuscript music and materials, photographs, posters, handbills and other African American music ephemera. The collection is currently being processed and fully cataloged.
African-American Sheet Music Digitizing Project Collection consists of 1,500 pieces of African-American sheet music from 1870 to 1920, providing a window into the daily concerns and pastimes of African Americans in the 19th and early 20th centuries
Archives of African American Music
and Culture Includes audio and video recordings, photographs, original scores, oral histories, etc., related to popular, religious, and art musics, and Black radio
Charles L.
Blockson Afro-American Collection Holds rare books, prints, photographs, slave narratives, manuscripts, letters, sheet music, foreign language publications and ephemera
Center for Black Music
Research
Center for Southern African-American Music The CSAM archive holds sheet music dating from 1843, Gullah field recordings, material relating to Charleston's Jenkins Orphanage, South Carolina blues musicians, and Porgy and Bess, and audio-visual, photographic, and print materials related specifically to African-American music of the south. The CSAM website also provides access to video outtakes from USC's Fox Movietone News collection.
Collection of Negroiana, [ca. 1800]-1981
E.
Azalia Hackley Collection
Rare books, manuscripts, performer and organization archives, photographs
dating from mid-1800's to present, recorded sound collection, sheet music
collection Ella Fitzgerald Collection
Historic
American Sheet Music Project This collection consists of 3,000 pieces of historic American sheet music from the period 1850-1920, representing a wide variety of musical types including bel canto; minstrel songs; protest, political and patriotic songs; plantation songs; spirituals; songs from vaudeville, musicals, and Tin Pan Alley; World War I compositions; and Civil War battle songs
Louis Armstrong House and Archives Archives include tapes, sound recordings, scrapbooks, photos, manuscript band parts, personal papers and manuscripts, instruments [SV]
The Marian
Anderson Music Study Center Includes the library's Marian Anderson Archive, which contains correspondence, audiotaped interviews, recordings, annotated musical scores, clippings, diaries, and photographs dating from 1920 to 1991
Maud Cuney-Hare Collection, 1900-1936
The
Moorland-Spingarn Research Center Music reflecting Black participation in and contributions to the development of jazz, folk, spiritual, popular and classical styles, is well documented by the Music Department. Its collections are rich in sheet music, recordings, songbook albums, and instructional concert material for voice and piano. The collection documents over 400 composers dating from the 18th century to the present. Among the major composers represented are Will Marion Cook, William L. Dawson, R. Nathaniel Dett, W.C. Handy, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
Music Division Collection of early American music, including music of African Americans, of the 18th and 19th centuries Music Information Center One of the largest music collections in a public library with substantial holdings in African American music including The Chicago Blues Archives, the Jubilee Showcase Gospel Music Video Collection (fifty hours), The Martin & Morris Gospel Sheet Music Collection, files, board minutes and documents of the African American local 208 of the American Federation of Musicians, Roy G. Butler Collection, and The University of Chicago Folk Festival Recordings Collection.
Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound Second largest recorded sound archives in the USA, which stems from the earliest days of recorded sound cylinders to the latest laser discs, has recordings of Afro-American composers and performers (though that is not their main focus), a collection of very early as well as current record company catalogs which list the different artists and the songs that they recorded, sometimes with interesting photos and bios and a large print collection of books and periodicals, dealing with composer and artist discographies, as well as any other aspect of recorded sound Their Music Research Division has many scores and manuscripts in their Americana collection. The contact person there is George Boziwick, and his number is 212-870-1647. [SV]
Schomburg Center for
Research in Black Culture One of the world's largest collections of African/American and other African related cultural materials, including sheet music, sound recordings and videos [SV]
Smithsonian:
African American History and Culture Selected links to African American sites hosted by Smithsonian Institution museums and organizations Includes photographs, music sheets, folios, ozalid copies, correspondence, manuscripts lyrics
The William
Grant Still and Verna Arvey Papers Includes musical scores, literary manuscripts, correspondence, sheet music, audio recordings, photographs, and books
William Grant Still
Collection Photocopies of music, writings, correspondences, clippings, recordings, etc., that primarily document Still's work as a composer
William Ransom Hogan Jazz Archive
Oral history tapes, sound recordings, sheet music and manuscripts and many
other materials [SV]
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