Founded: 1958
Full Time: 3
Part Time: 1
Budget: 6,000.00
Director: Bruce Boyd Raeburn, Ph.D.
Hogan Jazz Archive
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118
Telephone: 504/865-5688 FAX: 504/865-5761 E-Mail: raeburn@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
Research Areas:
The Hogan Jazz Archive is a research center devoted to the collection, organization, and preservation of materials concerning traditional New Orleans jazz and related music (including gospel, blues, rhythm and blues, and zydeco). Its collection holdings are vast: nearly 2,000 reels of taped oral history interviews with jazz musicians, family members, and observers (most have been transcribed and indexed); over 50,000 recordings, including phonocylinders, discs, piano rolls, and tapes; 47,000 pieces of printed music, piano copies and orchestrations; more than 10,000 photographs, 150 films and 332 video tapes; vertical files and manuscript holdings comprise more than 72 linear feet, including files from American Federation of Musicians Local 174-496 dating from 1923. Books number 2,525 and serials holdings cover 575 titles. The Archive's facilities are used regularly by a variety of scholars publishing with trade and scholarly presses (including Oxford, Illinois, Norton, Random House, LSU and others) and media programmers from around the world (Florentine Films, WGBH-Boston, Tempo Media-Germany, BBC Radio/Television, WYES TV12-New Orleans), as well as by doctoral candidates from Tulane and other institutions of higher education. The Archive continues the oral history fieldwork begun in 1958 under the auspices of Ford Foundation funding and has received preservation and access grants from Rockefeller and NEA.
Areas of Expertise:
The Curator holds a Ph.D. in History from Tulane University and has worked as a drummer in the New Orleans area for 25 years. Alma Williams Freeman, Library Technician, is a specialist on gospel music and has long association with the New Orleans jazz community. Lynn Abbott, Library Assistant, has published extensively on the history of African-American music.
Special Capabilities and Facilities:
The oral history collection is unique and provides the most comprehensive collection of source materials on the emergence of jazz in New Orleans available anywhere. Other notable special collections include nearly 900 photographs by Ralston Crawford, the John Robichaux Sheet Music/Orchestration Collection, the John W. "Knocky" Parker piano roll collection, and the photographic and recorded sound collection of Al Rose. Manuscript orchestrations of Ray Bauduc's band, along with his personal collection of photographs, are another unique facet of the Archive's holdings. The collection of Max Kaminsky includes recordings, manuscript orchestrations, and field tapes of live performances.
Research Equipment:
Keywords:
0316014 Music, Jazz
0316011 Music, American
0309011 Oral History
0309045 Cultural History
0308001 Folk/Ethnic Arts
0305003 Music Criticism
0300000 Arts/Humanities/Cultural Activities
0316001 Dance