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.

Subcollections (11)

List of items in this collection
  Title
 

Michael Nixon Collection

Michael Nixon is a veteran of the Black music and entertainment industry with over 40 years of experience in marketing and promotion. After ...

 

Debbie May Gospel Music Collection, 1985-2001, undated, SC 62

This collection consists of commercial gospel music videocassettes, commercial audio recordings, paper documents, schedules, promotional materials, photograp...

 

Gospel News Journal, 1966-1968, SC 59

The collection includes 11 issues of the periodical Gospel Ne...

 

William Banfield Collection, 1983-2007, undated, SC 99

This collection consists of manuscript scores of Banfield's music, promotional and ephemeral material relating to Banfield, and recordings and transcripts of...

 

Ronald C. Lewis Collection, 1986-2017, undated, SC 126

The Ronald Lewis collection contains press releases, article clippings, concert flyers, posters, advertisements, sound recordings and video documenting Le...

 

Tom Draper Collection, 1970-1998, SC 160

Draper's collection documents the career of an African American music executive and covers his tenures at RCA Records and Warner Bros. Records.

 

Arizona Dranes Okeh Records Correspondence, 1926-2004, bulk 1926-1929, SC 135

The collection consists primarily of contracts and correspondence between Arizona Dranes and the Consolidated Music Publishing House (o...

 

Adelaide Hall Collection, 1928-2003, undated, SC 134

The collection contains photographic materials, articles, programs and ephemera related to Hall's performance career.

 

Ed Castleberry Collection, 1951-1999, SC 87

The collection consists of personal papers, photographs, and a video documenting the career Ed Castleberry, a pioneering black radio disc jockey and ne...

 

Soul and Funk: The Naptown Sound, 2003-2005, undated, SC 113

The collection consists primarily of intervie...