Now that so many archives have gone digital, it can be easy to forget that many collections exist only partly online, if they have a digital component at all. An interesting case is the William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz at Tulane University. The Chronicle sat down with the archive’s director, Bruce Boyd Raeburn, to talk about the collection, jazz scholarship, and how the brass-band tradition will not die.
The archive contains some 80,000 recordings and 60,000 titles’ worth of sheet music as well as photos, rare film footage, and books about jazz. But its heart is made up of oral histories: the collected memories of some 700 people who were part of the New Orleans music scene from the early 20th century on. Interviewees included Professor Longhair, Jack Teagarden, Lil Hardin Armstrong, Pops Foster, and Kid Ory.
Source: Wired Campus
See Also: Web Site: William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz
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