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Scope and content: Sheet music, songbooks and a photograph from the personal collection of jazz violinist Carolyn Gold document a slice of 20th century American popular music, and constitute a useful supplement to the massive Kenneth A. Kanter Collection of American Music and Theater.
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Community Life - Special Collections Topics
Local Business - Special Collections Topics
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Scope and Content: This collection includes 35 audio-recorded interviews created in 2015 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in partnership with the Music Industry Coalition and the Nashville Public Library. The time periods covered within the interviews range from the 1940s to 2015. Each interview has a transcript, and most have indexes.
Primary topics addressed in the interviews include: individuals' stories of how they got started...
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Abstract: Scrapbooks, photographs, news clippings and audio recordings documenting the lives of African-Americans Thomas W. Southall, especially his career in the army, particularly his service in Germany in the 1950s, building radio sites; and his wife, Myrtle Forcey-Southall, who performed under the name, Myrtle Wilson, as a contortionist and dancer, and under her later stage name, Joyce Jackson, as a jazz singer. She performed in jazz clubs on...