Open for research: New Orleans Music and Entertainment Association records and Thomas A. Sancton collection of New Orleans jazz oral histories
Tulane University Special Collections (TUSC) is pleased to announce the processing and finding aid publication of the following collections of the Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz:
New Orleans Music and Entertainment Association records (HJA-024):
This collection contains organization records and business papers of the New Orleans Music and Entertainment Association. Materials span 1988-1993 and include committee lists, meeting minutes, correspondence, business papers, ephemera, and promotional items such as buttons and bumper stickers.
Established in 1986, the NOM&E (association) was formed to represent “all aspects of the music and entertainment industry to further the growth and recognition of New Orleans as a total center for music and entertainment." The organization is no longer in operation.
Thomas A. Sancton collection of New Orleans jazz oral histories (HJA-097):
This collection includes audio cassette and micro-cassette recordings, and some transcripts, of interviews with traditional New Orleans jazz musicians and participants in 1982, 1990, and 1991. The interviews were conducted in New Orleans for TIME magazine by Thomas A. Sancton, New Orleans-born journalist, author, educator, clarinetist, and former Paris bureau chief for TIME.
The recorded interviews are with Alvin Alcorn, Danny Barker, Chef Gerhard Brill, George “Kid Sheik” Colar, Harold Dejan, Percy Humphrey, Allan Jaffe, Waldren “Frog” Joseph, James Edward “Sing” Miller, Bill Russell, “Kid Thomas” Valentine, and Chester Zardis.
Because the Sancton collection consists of audiovisual materials that require reformatting prior to access, users interested in listening to one or several interviews may request digitization via the TUSC AV Digitization Form. More information about AV digitization requests is available on the “Duplication, AV Digitization & Permissions” page of the TUSC website.
For more information, contact Melissa A. Weber at mweber3@tulane.edu or 504-247-1807. To learn more about Tulane University Special Collections, visit the TUSC website at library.tulane.edu/tusc, email specialcollections@tulane.edu, and follow them on Facebook and Instagram.
Published: June 5, 2024
Photo caption: Materials from the New Orleans Music and Entertainment Association records include organization newsletters and promotional ephemera, HJA-024, Tulane University Special Collections.
