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Music

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 55 Collections and/or Records:

National Ballet Records

 Collection
Identifier: 034
Scope and Contents

The records consist of trustee minutes, programs, advertisements, press releases, clippings, biographical files, promotional materials, and scrapbooks regarding the promotion and administration of the National Ballet. The collection also contains musical scores, hanging plots, stage directions, board studies, set designs, videotapes, audiotapes, microforms, and photographs which document its artistic work. The records are arranged into 12 series.

Dates: 1962-1974

National Christmas Tree Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 088
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of correspondence, speeches, invitations, parking passes, sheet music, clippings, and photographs related to the history and raising of the National Christmas Tree, as well as items from the Christmas Pageant of Peace, which began in 1954.

Dates: 1923-1969

Nico Hobson Go-Go Collection

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2023.055

Chip Py Go-Go Collection

 Collection — External hard drive DIG_00029
Identifier: 199
Content Description The Chip Py Go-Go Collection consists of 1,900-plus individually composed and artistically rendered images of concert performances of Chuck Brown, the 'Godfather of Go-Go'; and other individuals and bands, including Rare Essence, Backyard Band, Familiar Faces, Suttle Thoughts, BE'LA DONA, and Da Mixx. The photographs were taken by Chip Py, personal photographer to Chuck Brown, between 2010 and 2020. The bulk of the collection dates from 2010-2014. The collection documents the importance of...
Dates: 2010 - 2020

Sarah Hughes interview, 2021-07-02

 Item
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc031_09.wav
Abstract Sarah Hughes reflects on growing up in Maryland and starting to play the saxophone at the age 9, inspired by a musical family and early exposure to live jazz performances. She Remembers her development as a jazz musician and interest in improvisation. When she starts to attend the New England Conservatory, she builds new skills in the music and meets many inspiring and challenging peers and mentors. After returning to Baltimore, she starts to play music with DMV improvising musicians,...
Dates: 2021-07-02

Rachel Sengers Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 173
Scope and Contents

The collection contains promotional flyers, zines, newspaper clippings, and a single page of correspondence.

Dates: 1980 - 2001

Series 9: D.C. Jazz Festival Oral History Project, 2017

 Series
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc009
Scope and Contents

The D.C. Jazz Festival Oral History Project contains four audio interviews conducted by Rusty Hassan and Willard Jenkins in 2017. Indexes and transcripts are included for all interviews.

Dates: 2017

Series 16: Anthology of Booty, 2019

 Series
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc016
Scope and Contents Anthology of Booty documents the dynamic shifts in D.C. social spaces from the mid-2000s to the present, focusing on nightclubs, bars, dancehalls, and house parties, by gathering first-person oral histories of Anthology of Booty, an all-women DJ collective, and the communities they serve. They illuminate the collective’s strategies for creating unique and welcoming social spaces against the backdrop of changes in the city. It also explores how historical patterns of segregation played out in...
Dates: 2019

U Street Oral History Project

 Collection — External hard drive DIG_00005
Identifier: OHP026
Content Description

Digital recordings of 20 oral history interviews by DCPL Special Collections Librarian Kelly Navies and related digital documents. 18 of the recordings are about the U Street cultural corridor. All of the U Street interviews have logs and two of them also have transcripts. Digital photographs and other documents were also included in the U Street transfer. There is also an interview with DC author Edward P. Jones, in 2 parts.

Dates: 2014

Cynthia Uleman Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 176
Scope and Contents

The collection contains fliers for musical performances, mail art, correspondence, publications, and zines Cnythia Uleman collected throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

Dates: 1975 - 2012