AFRICAN AMERICAN JAZZ PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH ORAL HISTORY PROJECT

title

AFRICAN AMERICAN JAZZ PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH ORAL HISTORY PROJECT

homepage

https://digital.library.pitt.edu/collection/african-american-jazz-preservation-society-pittsburgh-oral-history-project-records-recordings

description

This oral history collection consists of transcripts, cassette tapes, project working files and background organizational records of the interviews conducted during the African American Jazz Preservation Society of Pittsburgh (AAJPSP) Oral History Project (1995-1999). The project documents individual African American Jazz Musicians in Pittsburgh as well as their efforts to organize. The content of the interviews span from 1904 to 1999.

creator or project

African American Jazz Preservation Society of Pittsburgh (AAJPSP)

type

Repository

purpose

Research

audience

researchers

scholars

amateurs

task or research field

ethnography

history

technical features

Provides interfaces for browsing contents

example resource

https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A31735065784799

type of collected resources

Audio

scope of the collection

Temporal

Geographical

temporal scope of data

20th century

geographical scope of data

Pittsburgh

music genre in scope

jazz

category of data collected

Media

collection size

>1M

data formats

video

data license

Not specified

data size

~Gb


URI

https://w3id.org/musow/1638796438-4034164