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Interview with Katherine Dunham and Ben Sommers

Title: Interview with Katherine Dunham and Ben Sommers [sound recording]
Publication: 1964.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Audio	Use in library	*MGZTC 3-22	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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1 sound cassette (25 min.) : analog, mono.

Summary

Summary: Katherine Dunham discusses her background in social anthropology and its relevance today; dance as an index to society; Haiti; her school and her company. Ben Sommers, president of Capezio, inc., discusses the Capezio award presentation; past award recipients, the selection committee, criteria for the award. He also talks about his firm, Capezio, inc.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Marian Horosko. Oral History Archive.
National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.

Uniform Title

Profiles (Radio program)

Subject

Note

Host: Marian Horosko. Recorded 1964 at the Russian Tea Room, New York City and broadcast by radio station WNCN, New York, on its series, Profiles.

Call Number

*MGZTC 3-22

OCLC

NYPY737041347-R

Title

Interview with Katherine Dunham and Ben Sommers [sound recording]

Imprint

1964.

Local Note

Preservation funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance (NIPAD)

Archival original: *MGZTO 5-22. 3 3/4 in. per sec.; 5 in. reel; acetate, dual track.

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 10-22. 7 1/2 in. per sec.; 10 in. reel; polyester, dual track.

Local Subject

Audiotapes -- Dunham, K.

Audiotapes -- Sommers, B.

Added Author

Horosko, Marian. Interviewer

Dunham, Katherine. Interviewee

Sommers, Ben, 1906-1985. Interviewee

Added Title

Profiles (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*MGZTC 3-22

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