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Interview with Genevieve Oswald

Title
Interview with Genevieve Oswald [sound recording] / conducted by Susan Kraft.
Author
Oswald, Genevieve.
Publication
2000.

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Disc 2AudioUse in library *MGZTL 4-2337 Disc 2Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
Disc 1AudioUse in library *MGZTL 4-2337 Disc 1Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
TranscriptAudioSupervised use *MGZMT 3-2337 TranscriptPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Additional Authors
Kraft, Susan, 1961-
Description
2 sound discs : digital (ca. 75 min.); 4 3/4 in. +
Summary
  • Disc 1 (ca. 45 min.): Miss Oswald discusses her educational and family background; the beginning of her working life; her early years in the New York Public Library Music Division and her colleagues there including Carlton Sprague Smith. She describes her early efforts to develop dance materials and advance cataloging methods; seeking support and advice from dance critics John Martin and Walter Terry; meeting Lincoln Kirstein; receiving his collections and Kirstein's subsequent support of the Dance Collection.
  • Disc 2 (ca. 31 min.) Miss Oswald describes her efforts to begin the library's collecting in American ballet and modern dance; working with Ted Shawn to identify photographs in his scrapbook; her impressions of Shawn and Ruth St. Denis; requesting materials from Hanya Holm and Charles Weidman; seeking material on Isadora Duncan; seeking money to process and house the materials as the collection expanded; activities she developed to bring attention to the Dance Collection; her philosophy of collecting.
Alternative Title
  • Dance Oral History Project.
  • Dance Audio Archive.
Subject
  • Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996
  • Shawn, Ted, 1891-1972
  • New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
  • New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Dance Collection
  • New York Public Library. Dance Collection
  • New York Public Library. Music Division
  • Dance libraries > United States
  • Collection development (Libraries)
  • Collection management (Libraries)
Note
  • Recorded on Jan. 15, 2000.
  • For transcript see: *MGZMT 3-2337.
Access (note)
  • Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
Call Number
*MGZMT 3-2337
OCLC
NYPY02-R4
Author
Oswald, Genevieve. Interviewee
Title
Interview with Genevieve Oswald [sound recording] / conducted by Susan Kraft.
Imprint
2000.
Restricted Access
Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
Added Author
Kraft, Susan, 1961- Interviewer
Research Call Number
*MGZMT 3-2337
*MGZTL 4-2337
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