Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Woods, Mike, 1952-
- Abstract:
- Programs, press releases, audio recordings, and manuscript charts for jazz compositions composed by Hamilton College music professor Michael "Doc" Woods.
- Extent:
- 5 document cases (2.7 linear feet)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
Michael Woods Collection, SC 74, Archives of African American Music and Culture, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Background
- Biographical / Historical:
"Doctuh" Michael Woods (Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Music at Hamilton College) has written more than 700 compositions in styles that include choral, orchestral and chamber works, and jazz combo and big-band charts. His works have been performed by the Albany Symphony, the North Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, the Central New York Jazz Orchestra, the Tulsa Philharmonic, the Salt City Jazz Collective and the central New York Jazz Orchestra. Woods is director and bassist for the Zoe Jazz Band, and bassist for the Omniverse jazz ensemble. Both groups perform his compositions. He majored in composition and minored in string bass at Indiana University (M.M.), and the University of Oklahoma (D.M.A.) and was the first African-American to receive a doctorate in composition from Oklahoma.
(Biographical note sourced from Michael Woods' faculty page at Hamilton College: https://www.hamilton.edu/academics/our-faculty/directory/faculty-detail/michael-woods)
- Scope and Content:
The Michael Woods Collection includes compositions, arrangements, and performances by Michael "Doctuh" Woods, along with related materials such as clippings and promotional items.
Series 1 contains the clippings and promotional materials, such as event flyers and posters. Also included are biographical materials and event photographs. An essay written by Woods about the influence of Black popular music on his compositions is also present.
Printed music compositions and arrangements by Woods can be found in Series 2. This series comprises the bulk of the collection. Several compositions in this series are original holographs, with the bulk being photoreproductions of original holographs.
The last series contains audiovisual media on various formats documenting performances of Woods' compositions and arrangements. Two interviews with Woods are also present.
- Acquisition information:
- Donated to the AAAMC in installments between 1998 and 2019 by Michael Woods. Gumptshun , Ghetto Savant , and several biographical materials were originally received as part of the Undine Smith Moore Black Composers Collection (SC 1). Over the years the Michael Woods materials grew in quantity and the separate, but related, Michael Woods Collection was established to organize the original deposits and accruals together.
- Processing information:
Processed by AAAMC staff. Completed in 2023.
- Arrangement:
Arranged in three series:
- Series 1. Papers
- Series 2. Printed music
- Series 3. Audiovisual media
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed Terms
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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Michael Woods Collection, SC 74, 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