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Home page for the Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, where Chicago Jazz Archive materials are housed and used. Email Special Collections
Pulls together some contemporary accounts that can be difficult to find. Different structure and focus from Keeping Time, below. Chapters on Jazz and Myth, and Jazz and Literature.
John Steiner grew up with Chicago jazz; his vast collection is in the Chicago Jazz Archive, Special Collections Research Center. See SCRC links in left column of this LibGuide tab.
Chicago was one of the cities that had segregated musicians' unions. Charles Walton was a member of Chicago's Local 208; Local 208 together with members of Local 10 fought for an integrated Chicago Federation of Musicians, now known as Local 10-208.
There are several dissertations on the AACM and free jazz.
Includes citations for materials from the first U.S. dissertation (1861) to those accepted as recently as last semester. Starting in 1997 full-text is often available. If full-text is not available information about ordering the document is provided.