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Ira Jeffries audio and moving image collection : 9 items.
- Title
- Ira Jeffries audio and moving image collection : 9 items.
- Author
- Jeffries, Ira, 1932-2010
- Publication
- [2000]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Spoken word recording | Use in library | Sc MIRS Jeffries 2013-30 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Dunye, Cheryl.
- Description
- 8 audiocassettes
- 1 videocassette
- Summary
- The collection consists of 8 audio recordings and 1 moving image recording. The moving image recording is a short clip from the film The Watermelon Woman, directed by Cheryl Dunye. The audio recordings include audio diaries by Ira Jeffries about herself, and some commercial recordings from her personal collection.
- Uniform Title
- Watermelon woman.
- Subjects
- Video recordings
- Sound recordings
- Lesbians' writings, American
- Women in the theater > United States
- American drama > 20th century
- Dramatists, American > 20th century
- African American theater
- African American actresses
- African Americans in the performing arts
- African American women dramatists
- African American women authors
- Jeffries, Ira, 1932-2010
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings.
- Video recordings.
- Biography (note)
- Ira L. Jeffries (1932-2010), author, playwright and journalist, had a productive career in New York City's off-off Broadway Theater and African American communities. The author of almost two dozen plays, as well as short stories, poems, essays and articles, Jeffries also tried her hand at producing plays. As a journalist, Jeffries wrote articles for several African American and lesbian publications.
- Call Number
- Sc MIRS Jeffries 2013-30
- OCLC
- 1319537666
- Author
- Jeffries, Ira, 1932-2010, creator.
- Title
- Ira Jeffries audio and moving image collection : 9 items.
- Publisher
- [2000]
- Type of Content
- spoken word
- Type of Medium
- audio
- Type of Carrier
- audiocassette
- Biography
- Ira L. Jeffries (1932-2010), author, playwright and journalist, had a productive career in New York City's off-off Broadway Theater and African American communities. The author of almost two dozen plays, as well as short stories, poems, essays and articles, Jeffries also tried her hand at producing plays. As a journalist, Jeffries wrote articles for several African American and lesbian publications.
- Local Note
- Forms part of the Ira Jeffries archive. Papers can be found in the Manuscript, Archives & Rare Books Division: Ira L. Jeffries papers, 1950-2000. (Sc MG 794).
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Dunye, Cheryl.
- Added Title
- Watermelon woman.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MIRS Jeffries 2013-30