Tulane University, Hogan Jazz Archive
Hogan Jazz Archive
Special Collections, Jones Hall
Howard-Tilton Memorial Library
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118
Telephone number: (504) 865-5688
Email: raeburn@tulane.edu
Website: http://specialcollections.tulane.edu
Contact person: Bruce Boyd Raeburn
Access privileges: Open to the public, subject to certain restrictions
Hours: Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m.-4:45 p.m. and Saturday, 9.00 a.m.-11.00 a.m. (hours change during academic holidays)
Repository Information: The Hogan Jazz Archive is a renowned resource for New Orleans Jazz research. Women are widely represented in the Archive's recorded sound materials, photographic and film holdings, sheet music and orchestrations, manuscripts, files of clippings, oral histories and bibliographic materials. In addition to vintage and contemporary books and periodicals, the Jazz Archive's reference shelf includes discographies and encyclopedias in our patron area.
The Hogan Jazz Archive contains vertical files on individual women as well as two broader files: Women in Music (local) and Women in Music (general). Researchers may also be interested in the extensive information about male artists and music organizations, such as the Musician's Union File--AFM 174-496, as many of these files contain information relating to women. The material within the Jazz Archives is a valuable resource not only for research relating directly to music and individual people in the music world, but also for anyone doing cultural-historical research, especially research related to New Orleans heritage and African-American history. Current planning includes proposals to explore the digitisation of oral history materials to provide a web site with audio facilities and a searchable database of transcripts.
Highlights: While the Archive's strengths lie in the breadth of its collections, many notable female jazz artists are represented including Lovie Austin, Lizzie Miles, Billy Pierce, Mahalia Jackson and the Boswell Sisters.
Facilities: Multi-media consultation; reprographic services, and power sockets for laptops available. Group visits by arrangement.
Finding aids: Inventories and indexes available in reading room; some finding aids available online.
COLLECTIONS:
1. Vertical files: Women in Music (general)
1912 - present
2 folders
This file contains news clippings, pamphlets, catalogues, advertisements, reviews, scholarly articles, and other printed material relating to individual female artists and women's musical groups from a variety of genres, including jazz, ragtime, punk, techno, classical, gospel, hip hop, and many others. Collection is arranged chronologically.
2. Vertical files: Women in Music (local)
1954 - present
1 folder
Contains information relating to women in New Orleans and surrounding areas. See content description above.
3. Vertical files: Persons- miscellaneous
(size varies: typically 1-3 folders plus recordings)
The vertical files on individual people include information on the lives and careers of singers, songwriters, musicians, and other people of importance to jazz history. The files contain correspondence, newspaper clippings, press releases, articles, music criticism, and other printed material arranged chronologically. Additionally, many files include photographs, and most include music recordings (phonograph records, tape reels, recording discs, compact discs, video footage, etc.). Although no single finding aid on women artists exists, the Jazz Archives house over 200 vertical files on individual women. For more detailed information about available resources that relate to any of the following people, contact the archives directly:
Armstrong, Lillian Hardin
Barrett, Sweet Emma
Bijou, Esther
Busch, Yvonne
Cook, Ann
Davis, G.
Holiday, Billie
LeGon, Geni
Pierce, Billie - see also, Goodson Sisters
Smith, Bessie
Thomas, Blanche
Williams, Mary Lou
4. Oral histories: Oral History interviews with women
Audio recordings
Dolly Douroux Adams (4-18-1962)
Lilian Hardin Armstrong (7-1-1959)
Lovie Austin (4-25-1959)
Thelma Baker (3-11-1989)
Blu Lu Barker (fall 1988)
Connee Boswell (2-14-1975)
Vet Boswell (1982/1987)
Charlotte Botney (10-16-1960)
Carrie Boute (5-25-1959/9-3-1960)
Esther Dupuy Breckenridge (5-14-1958)
Baby Brousse (2-16-1961/2-20-1961)
Agnes Brown (10-14-1960)
Rev Pearly Brown (6-12-1959)
Carolyn Buck (3-25-1969)
Mabel Carter (8-13-1961)
Mrs Cozzy Cary (10-27-1960/8-9-1961)
Lilie Delk Christian (4-25-1961)
Mary Collins (9-29-1974)
Bella Cornish (1-13-1959)
Lillian de Pass (6-20-1960)
Mrs Laurena Diggs (5-25-1960/9-3-1960)
Charlotte Hillyer Dupuy (5-6-1958)
Loretta Rowland Evans (8-25-1960/6-1-1967)
Ida Goodson (5-6-1961)
Sadie Goodson (9-7-1983/12-12-1984)
Betty Lee Hanson (11-25-1961)
Mary Hoffman (2-5-1976)
Mrs Robert Hoffman (1-25-1975)
Mahalia Jackson (6-1954/7-26-1955/6-1-1958/5-2-1962/5-2-1966)
Sandra Jaffa (10-2-1965)
Mrs Maude Johnson (1-6-1959)
Edna Kelly (12-15-1969)
Jeanette Kimball (2-10-1962/6-16-1969)
Mamie Klein (8-21-1989)
Carolyn Kolb (1-18-1968)
Mrs Blanche Laine (2-7-1959/5-23-1960)
Shirley Lewis (3-25-1969)
Mrs Ted Lewis (Ada Baker) (6-6-1977)
Mildred Major (3-28-1969)
Mary McBride (Mack & Mack)(7-1-1959)
Bertha Jones McCullum (10-16-1960)
Mrs Arnold Metoyer (10-19-1960)
Lizzie Miles (1-18-1951)
Denise Morel (5-7-1965)
Evelyn Sinclair Moyer (5-6-1958)
Mary L. Hamel O'Kelly (5-4-1958)
Frances Mouton Oliver (5-10-1969)
Mrs Stella Oliver (4-22-1959)
Bernice Phillips (9-3-1960)
Billie Pierce (4-12-1959/10-7-1959)
Diana Rose (fall 1988)
Marge Ryter (6-23-1989)
Morel S. Sinclair (5-6-1958)
Kay Starr (6-19-1989)
Mrs A. C. Synigal (5-17-1962)
Dorothy Tait (12-21-1968)
Hilda Taylor (10-16-1960)
Sister Idell Williams (12-10-1961)
Alice Zeno (11-14-1958/12-10-1958)
5. Oral histories: Video recordings
Barker, Blue Lu
Black, Claire
Boswell Sisters (Connie, Martha, Vet)
Cook, Olivia Charlot
Fasnacht, Dixie
Goodson Sisters (Ida Goodson, Sadie Goodson, Billie Pierce)
Kimball, Jeanette Salvant
Miles, Lizzie
Tio, Rose Wynn
Zeno, Alice