Master Digital Audio Tapes of Interviews
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution
label: Collection Creator
content: National Public Radio
label: Collection Creator
content: Reagon, Bernice Johnson, 1942-2024
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content: Wade in the Water Radio Series Collection
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content: Wade in the Water Radio Series Collection / 2.4: Reference Audio Cassette Tapes of Edited Programs, 1993
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1992-1993
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0516, Subseries 2.2
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content: Archival materials
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content: Include oral interviews with historians, composers, arrangers, ethnomusicologists, music educators, archivists, producers, musicians, vocalists, and authors identified by Dr. Reagon as the foremost authorities to speak about the influence of religion on African American sacred and secular music styles. Such individuals include Sylvia Olden Lee (June 29, 1917-April 10, 2004), Leon C. Roberts (March 21, 1950-January 22, 1999), Mavis Staples (July 10, 1939-), Dr. Horace Clarence Boyer (July 28, 1935-July 21, 2009), Isaac "Dickie" Freeman (June 20, 1928-October 16, 2012), Roland Marvin Carter (May 4, 1942-), Pharoah Sanders (October 13, 1940-September 24, 2022), Priscilla Marie "CeCe" Winans (October 8, 1964-), Reverend Donald Raymond Vails, Jr. (December 25, 1948-September 10, 1997), Lena Mae McLin (September 5, 1928-October 3, 2023), Clarence Fountain (November 28, 1929-June 3, 2018), Beth Irene Madison Howse (September 24, 1943-September 26, 2012), Matthew Washington Kennedy (March 10, 1921-June 5, 2014), Margaret "Babe" Allison (September 25, 1921-July 30, 2008), Louis "Lou" Allen Rawls (December 1, 1933-January 6, 2006), Lawrence William Levine (February 27, 1933-October 23, 2006), Portia Katrenia Maultsby (June 11, 1947-), Albert John McNeil (February 14, 1920-November 29, 2022), Dorothy Rudd Moore (June 4, 1940-March 30, 2022), Noel Pointer (December 26, 1954-December 19, 1994), Ricky R. Grundy (January 30, 1959-July 27, 2015), Vernard Johnson (September 6, 1948-), Dr. Augustus Japheth Pearson Jr. (February 8, 1944-October 10, 1995), Edwin Reuben Hawkins (August 19, 1943-January 15, 2018), Rawn Wadell Spearman Sr. (February 4, 1920-September 13, 2009), Louis "Studs" Terkel (May 16, 1912-October 31, 2008), Wyatt Tee Walker (August 16, 1928-January 23, 2018), William Caesar Warfield (January 22, 1920-August 25, 2002), Jacqueline Diana "Jacquie" Gales Webb (June 30, 1955-), Randolph Edward "Randy" Weston (April 6, 1926-September 1, 2018), Jessye Mae Norman (September 15, 1945-September 30, 2019), Hubert Laws (November 10, 1939-), Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II (December 9, 1932-February 4, 2013), Roebuck "Pops" Staples (December 28, 1914-December 19, 2000), Roebuck "Pop" Staples (December 28, 1914-December 19, 2000), and P. Sterling Stuckey (March 2, 1932-August 15, 2018).