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Notes for notes.(Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut Libraries; and grant for Center for American Music of the University Library System )
The Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut Libraries has recently made the finding aid for the Samuel and Ann Charters Archives of Blues and Vernacular African American Musical Culture available online. Samuel Charters began field recording for Folkways Records in 1954. A prolific writer and poet, Charters has, over the years, published many books about blues and jazz and accounts of the lives of musicians. In the field, he often collaborated with his wife Ann, who is a writer, literary scholar, photographer and pianist in her own right. Their quest to document African American music has taken them to St. Louis, Memphis, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, Louisiana, the Caribbean, and as far as Africa. In these places, the Charters have tried to record music that they believed was going to be lost. Their efforts to preserve and share the songs that they heard on their travels have culminated in a working archive that provides researchers with a complete experience of African American vernacular music. The archive was donated to the University of Connecticut by Samuel and Ann Charters in 2000 and has been added to significantly each year since then. The finding aid was prepared and fully annotated by Samuel Charters and reflects fifty years of discovering and documenting African American music. The finding aid is fully word searchable and is available at http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/research/speclib/ASC/findaids/charters/MSS20000105.html (accessed 19 November 2008).
For more information about the Samuel and Ann Charters Archives of Blues and Vernacular African American Musical Culture please visit: http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/research/speclib/ASC/collections/CharatersArchives_brochure.pdf (accessed 19 November 2008), or contact Kristin Eshelman, curator of multimedia collections, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries, 405 Babbidge Rd. U-1205, Storrs, CT 06269-1205; e-mail: kristin.eshelman@uconn.edu.
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