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2. Black Radio : Telling It Like It Was, circa 1920s-1997, bulk 1991-1995 10 document cases (4 linear feet)
Smithsonian Productions
Production materials documenting Smithsonian's thirteen-part program on the role of radio in transforming the African American community in the twentieth century. The program was produced in 1996 by Jacquie Gales Webb for Smithsonian Productions, with assistance from the AAAMC. The collection contains over 400 hours of interviews and historical aircheck tapes in addition to articles, research files, program scripts, and transcripts. The audio interviews feature conversations with over 150 well-known disc jockeys, radio professionals, record company executives, journalists, and scholars. The historical airchecks include station identifications and jingles, radio interviews with prominent Black figures, coverage of historical events, and programs highlighting or influenced by the contributions of Black performers, disc jockeys, and other important persons in radio.
3. Deborah Smith Pollard Collection, 1979-2015 7 document cases (7.33 linear feet)
Pollard, Deborah Smith
The Deborah Smith Pollard collection includes more than 200 gospel music magazines and other publications from the 1980s to 2000s. The collection also includes Pollard's gospel music television specials, over 50 interviews she conducted with gospel artists and industry figures, airchecks of Pollard's radio program "Strong Inspirations" and radio programs hosted by other announcers.
4. Wade in the Water: African American Sacred Music Traditions, 1994 1 document case (0.875 linear feet)
National Public Radio
The collection consists primarily of audiocassette copies of the 26-part radio series Wade in the Water, produced by NPR in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, and concieved and hosted by Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon.
5. Debbie May Gospel Music Collection, 1985-2001 1 document case (0.21 linear feet)
May, Debbie
This collection consists of commercial gospel music videocassettes, commercial audio recordings, paper documents, schedules, promotional materials, photographs, and other ephemeral material related to Debbie May's career as a music producer.
6. Mack C. Mason Collection, 1955-2020 1 document case (0.21 linear feet)
Mason, Mack C., 1959-
The collection spans the years 1955-2020; The earliest materials are LPs released between 1955 and 1974, while the papers are dated from 2012. Materials consist primarily of records, radio interviews, and magazines discussing the Pastor Maceo L. Woods, as well the Charles Harrison Mason Historical Society.
7. Robert Marovich Collection, 2007-2013 64 Audiocassettes
Marovich, Robert M.
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.
8. Bobby Jones Collection, 1975-2001 3 document cases (3.3 linear feet)
Jones, Bobby
The collection consists primarily of awards received by gospel music artist and television host Bobby Jones. Also included in collection are various articles and programs associated with Jones.
9. Al Hobbs Interview, 2007 2 Videocassettes (MiniDV)
Indiana University, Bloomington. Archives of African American Music and Culture
Video recording of an interview with the legendary gospel music pioneer Al Hobbs by Keith McCutchen and Fredara Hadley at Hobbs' Indianapolis home in June of 2007.
10. Blondell Hill Gospel Music Collection, 1916-1964, bulk 1940-1964 1 document case (0.21 linear feet)
Hill, Blondell, 1904-2005
This collection consists of gospel song books and sheet music, song texts, photographs, and other ephemeral material related to Blondell Hill's participation with choirs in Richmond, Indiana, Petoskey, Michigan, and Harbor Springs, Michigan.