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Archives of African American Music and Culture

Archives of African American Music and Culture

Smith Research Center, Rooms 180-181
2805 East 10th Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47408-2601, United States
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The Archives of African American Music and Culture (AAAMC) is a repository for materials covering a wide range of African American musical idioms and cultural expressions from the post-World War II era. Highlights include interviews, researcher documentation, and publicity materials featuring Black performers, artists, radio personalities, and music industry executives.

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Soul and Funk: The Naptown Sound, 2003-2005

1 document case (0.21 linear feet) Collection ID: SC 113
The collection consists primarily of interviews conducted by AAAMC Project Manager Jason Housley for the 2005-2006 Indiana Historical Society Exhibit, "Soul and Funk: The Naptown Sound," as well as related production materials and photographs.

Rowena Stewart IU Lectures, 2001

1 document case (0.21 linear feet) Collection ID: SC 23
Press materials, itinerary, promotional materials, and media recordings from Rowena Stewart's 2001 lecture at Indiana University, "Music: An Interpretative Voice in the Extraordinary World of Museums."

Ronald C. Lewis Collection, 1986-2020

1 document case (0.21 linear feet) Collection ID: SC 126
The Ronald Lewis collection contains press releases, article clippings, concert flyers, posters, advertisements, sound recordings and video documenting Lewis' career as a musician, record label owner, and producer in Louisville, KY.

Robert Marovich Collection, 2007-2013

64 Audiocassettes Collection ID: SC 82
Bob Marovich is a gospel music historian, author, and radio host. This collection consists of one series made up of recordings and transcripts of interviews that Marovich conducted with a variety of gospel music pioneers while writing A City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music. The interviews discuss the musicians' lives and careers, as well as spirituality and the gospel genre as a whole.

Rita Organ Collection of African American musician photographs, 1948-1987

73 photographs Collection ID: SC 8
Publicity photographs, including movie and television stills, of African American musicians representing classical, jazz, gospel, soul and rhythm and blues genres.

Prince Commemorative Publications, 1991-2018

1 document case (1 linear foot) Collection ID: SC 163
A collection of Prince commemorative publications assembled by the AAAMC following the artist's death on April 21, 2016.

Portia K. Maultsby Collection, 1981-1986

169 Audiocassettes (analog, stereo) Collection ID: SC 18
Series G, "Music Industry Interviews," consists of transcripts and audiocassettes of interviews primarily conducted by Portia K. Maultsby between 1981-1986 as part of her research on the Black music industry. The remainder of the series in this collection are still in the process of being accessioned and are unavailable for general research and public use.

PBS Artist Publicity Photographs, 1972-1989

100 photographs Collection ID: SC 94
A collection of 100 publicity photographs of Black artists featured in PBS television programs from approximately 1972-1989.

Nelson George Collection, 1946-2005, bulk 1960-1984

9 document cases (4.15 linear feet; including 137 photographs) Collection ID: SC 133
The collection consists primarily of materials collected during research for Nelson George's book Where Did Our Love Go?: The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound (St. Martin's Press, 1985). This includes interviews (audiocassettes and transcripts), photographs, newspaper clippings, magazines, photocopies of legal documents, manuscripts, and correspondence.

Murray Forman Collection of Hip Hop Magazines, 1978-2007

18 document cases (14.75 linear feet) Collection ID: SC 139
Magazines and articles collected by Murray Forman during research for his book, The 'Hood Comes First: Race, Space, and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop (Wesleyan University, 2002).