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Helen Armstead-Johnson audio and moving image collection : 691 items.
- Title
- Helen Armstead-Johnson audio and moving image collection : 691 items.
- Author
- Johnson, Helen A.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MIRS Armstead-Johnson 1996-38 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
- Summary
- The collection consists of 673 audio recordings and 18 moving image recordings.
- Subjects
- Musicals
- Music publishing
- African American dance
- African American theater
- American drama > African American authors
- Authors, Black
- Choreographers
- African American dancers
- African Americans in the performing arts
- African American women entertainers
- African American singers
- African American poets
- African American musicians
- African American dramatists
- African American composers
- African American comedians
- African American choral conductors
- African American artists
- African American actors
- African American authors
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings.
- Video recordings.
- Source (note)
- Helen Armstead-Johnson;
- Biography (note)
- Helen Armstead-Johnson began conducting research into African-American theater following a chance meeting in 1966 with Noble Sissle (1889-1975), musician, band conductor and show business partner of composer Eubie Blake. As a result of her interest in black theater, she established The Armstead-Johnson Foundation for Theater Research in February 1974 for the purpose of collecting, preserving, documenting and exhibiting the history of black contributions to the American stage. As the Foundation's director her research and other activities for the Foundation took her across the United States, Europe, Africa, South America and Australia enabling her to acquire materials.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms parts of the Helen Armstead-Johnson Theater Collection archive. Papers can be found in the Manuscript and Rare Books Division (Sc MG 599).
- Call Number
- Sc MIRS Armstead-Johnson 1996-38
- OCLC
- 1192487062
- 1192487062
- Author
- Johnson, Helen A.
- Title
- Helen Armstead-Johnson audio and moving image collection : 691 items.
- Biography
- Helen Armstead-Johnson began conducting research into African-American theater following a chance meeting in 1966 with Noble Sissle (1889-1975), musician, band conductor and show business partner of composer Eubie Blake. As a result of her interest in black theater, she established The Armstead-Johnson Foundation for Theater Research in February 1974 for the purpose of collecting, preserving, documenting and exhibiting the history of black contributions to the American stage. As the Foundation's director her research and other activities for the Foundation took her across the United States, Europe, Africa, South America and Australia enabling her to acquire materials.
- Linking Entry
- Forms parts of the Helen Armstead-Johnson Theater Collection archive. Papers can be found in the Manuscript and Rare Books Division (Sc MG 599).
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MIRS Armstead-Johnson 1996-38