Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Sarig, Roni (Writer on music)
- Abstract:
- Interviews with key figures in southern hip hop music and related secondary source materials including articles, press clippings, press releases and photographs.
- Extent:
- 2 document cases (0.84 linear feet), 40 Audiocassettes, 12 photographs , and approximately 155 negatives
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
Roni Sarig Collection, SC 148, Archives of African American Music and Culture, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Background
- Biographical / Historical:
Roni Sarig is a New York-based writer primarily known for his coverage of popular music and Jewish culture. A former music editor of the Atlanta alternative weekly, Creative Loafing, he has also written numerous articles about music for Vibe, Rolling Stone, XXL, and Spin magazines and has published two books about music: The Third Coast: Outkast, Timbaland, and How Hip Hop Became a Southern Thing and Secret History of Rock: The Most Influential Bands You've Never Heard.
- Scope and Content:
The collection consists of research materials, including press releases, magazine and newspaper clippings, publicity photographs, and interviews related to Roni Sarig's book, Third Coast: OutKast, Timbaland, and How Hip-Hop Became a Southern Thing (Da Capo Press, 2007). The collection documents the emergence of Southern hip hop as a major force in the music industry and the key artists in the states of Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennesee, Florida, Virginia and North Carolina.
- Acquisition information:
- Donated to the AAAMC by Roni Sarig in 2010.
- Processing information:
Processed by AAAMC staff. Tape indexes prepared by Jared Walker, Emily Baumgart and Amy Aiyegbusi. Completed in 2020.
- Arrangement:
Arranged in two series:
- Series 1: Research Materials; orgainzed in sub-series by state
- Series 2: Interviews (audio)
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access
- RESTRICTIONS:
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Use of time-based media materials (audio and video) may require production of listening or viewing copies.
Access to streaming audio, moving image, and full resolution digital image materials may currently be restricted to researchers who can authenticate with an IU account or who are physically present on campus. Remote streaming to individual researchers may be allowed with the completion of applicable forms.
For further information about access to online audiovisual materials, contact AAAMC staff at aaamc@indiana.edu.
- TERMS OF ACCESS:
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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, including but not limited to the Indiana Public Records Act (5-14-3-2 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which Indiana University assumes no responsibility.
Copyright is retained by the creators/authors of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. All requests for copying and publishing materials must be submitted in writing to the Archives of African American Music and Culture, and may require the written permission of the creator(s)/author(s) or donor(s).
- PREFERRED CITATION:
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Roni Sarig Collection, SC 148, Archives of African American Music and Culture, Indiana University, Bloomington.
- CAMPUS:
- Indiana University Bloomington
- LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
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Smith Research Center, Rooms 180-1812805 East 10th StreetBloomington, Indiana 47408-2601, United States
- CAMPUS:
- Indiana University Bloomington
- CONTACT:
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812-855-8547aaamc@indiana.edu