Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Douglass, Harry.

Description

1. .2 lin. ft. (1/2 archival box)

Summary

1. The Samuel Carroll Buchanan Collection contains letters, sheet music, programs, and research materials relating to quartet singers. There are two letters from Harry Douglass, a leader in the famous quartet the Deep River Boys, which began in 1936 at Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) and a score by Douglass, "Come Rain or Shine". Additionally, there are two programs in the collection, the United in Group Harmony Association's "20th Anniversary Weekend Celebration" (1996) and the Blues and Rhythm Jubilee's "Whisky, Women, and ..." (1982). The research materials consist of photocopies of correspondence mainly from and to George F. Ketchum of Hampton Institute, detailing various opportunities involving the Hampton Quartette.

Subject

1. African Americans > Music
2. Selah Jubilee Singers
3. Douglass, Harry
4. Rhythm & Blues Jubilee
5. Vocal quartets > United States
6. Sheet music
7. Black author
8. African American musicians
9. Deep River Boys
10. Buchanan, Samuel Carroll
11. Programs
12. African Americans in the performing arts
13. United in Group Harmony Association (Clifton, N.J.)

Genre/Form

1. Programs.
2. Sheet music.

Call number

1. Sc MG 863

Note

1. Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.
2. DVDs and Audio Cassettes transferred to Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
3. Book transferred to General Research and Reference Division.

Source (note)

1. Buchanan, Carol

Biography (note)

1. Samuel Carroll Buchanan received his Ph.D. from New York University in 1987 with a dissertation on Black quartets in the United States. He also sung with several groups, including the Charioteers, the Carr-Hill Singers, and the Gulf Coast Community Choir. Buchanan taught music in the New York City school system as well as at Five Towns College in Seaford, New York. Additionally, he worked as an administrator in the Peace Corps, serving in Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya.

Author

1. Buchanan, Samuel Carroll.

Title

1. Samuel Carroll Buchanan collection, 1929-1997.

Biography

1. Samuel Carroll Buchanan received his Ph.D. from New York University in 1987 with a dissertation on Black quartets in the United States. He also sung with several groups, including the Charioteers, the Carr-Hill Singers, and the Gulf Coast Community Choir. Buchanan taught music in the New York City school system as well as at Five Towns College in Seaford, New York. Additionally, he worked as an administrator in the Peace Corps, serving in Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya.

Connect to:

1. Finding Aid

Local subject

1. Black author.

Added author

1. Douglass, Harry.

Research call number

1. Sc MG 863