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A biographical study of the lives and contributions of two selected contemporary Black male dance artists - Arthur Mitchell and Alvin Ailey - in the idioms of ballet and modern dance, respectively.

Microform

Denton, Tex., 1973.

1973

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc Micro R-2027Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference
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Remembering Josephine Baker / by Stephen Papich.

Book/Text

Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, [c1976.]

1976

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc F 78-86Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Destination freedom : dance anthropologist. (Radio program.)

Spoken word recording

Chicago : WMAQ, 1950.

1950

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatSpoken word recordingCall numberSc Audio C-407 Side 1Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
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Les mémoires de Joséphine Baker/ recueillis et adaptés par Marcel Sauvage; avec 30 dessins inédits de Paul Colin.

Book/Text

Paris: Kra, 1927.

1927

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc B-Baker, J. (Baker, J. Memoires de Josephine Baker)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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[Duke Ellington] [sound recording] / Bunny Briggs.

Spoken word recording

[New York : Duke Ellington Society, New York Chapter, 1967]

1967

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatSpoken word recordingCall numberSc Audio C-490 Side 1 Black dancerItem locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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A biographical study of the lives and contributions of two selected contemporary Black male dance artists - Arthur Mitchell and Alvin Ailey - in the idioms of ballet and modern dance, respectively / by Jacqueline Quinn Moore Latham.

Book/Text

1973.

1973-1974

4 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall number*MGY 87-2500Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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FormatBook/TextCall number*MGY 87-2500Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc F 85-187 Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Dancing in the dark [microform] : the life and times of Margot Webb in Aframerican vaudeville of the swing era / by

Microform

1981.

1981

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc Micro R-4904Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Les mémoires de Joséphine Baker [microform] / recueillis et adaptés par Marcel Sauvage ; avec 30 dessins inédits de Paul Colin.

Microform

Paris : Kra ; 1927.

1927-1949

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMicroformCall number*ZBD-457Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Sara Lou Harris portrait collection [graphic].

Picture

<1947?-1960?>

1947-1960

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Harris, Sara LouItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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An Interview with Carmencita Romero.

DVD

New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1983.

1983

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMoving imageCall numberSc Visual DVD-225 pt. 3Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMoving imageCall numberSc Visual DVD-225 pt. 2Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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Black choreographers moving : a national dialogue / compiled by Halifu Osumare ; edited by Julinda Lewis-Ferguson.

Book/Text

Berkeley, CA : Expansion Arts Services, c1991.

1991

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall number*MGS (U.S.) 92-489Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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The dance [microform] : research studies / compiled by workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in New York City, for "Negroes of New York".

Microform

[New York, 1936-1940]

1936-1940

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc Micro R-6544 r. 2Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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George A. and Maudelle Weston papers, 1919-1979.

Archival Mix

1919-1979

1 item

Available online

Finding Aid
FormatCall numberItem location
FormatArchival MixCall numberSc MG 188 Box 1Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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Fredi Washington papers, 1922-1981, 1922-1941 (bulk) [microform]

Microform

1922-1981

3 items

Collection information

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FormatMixed materialCall numberSc Micro R-5002 r. 3Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatMixed materialCall numberSc Micro R-5002 r. 2Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatMixed materialCall numberSc Micro R-5002 r. 1Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The Guinness who's who of rap, dance & techno / general editor, Colin Larkin.

Book/Text

Enfield, Middlesex, England : Guinness, c1994.

1994

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberML3531 .H87 1994Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music - Reference

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FormatBook/TextCall number*LE 95-1736Item locationOffsite
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Black women in America / edited by Kim Marie Vaz.

Book/Text

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1995.

1994

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc F 95-57Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall number*MGTB (U.S.) 12-5864Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Interview with Margot Webb , 1978

Spoken word recording

1978

1978-417

1 resource

Interview with Lavinia Williams-Yarborough [sound recording].

Spoken word recording

1976.

1976

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatSpoken word recordingCall number*MGZTL 4-415 discs 1-6Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Interview with Raven Wilkinson, 1977

Spoken word recording

1977.

1977-705

1 resource

Jim Crow.

Picture

[London] pub'd by Orlando Hodgsen [?] 111 Fleet Street, 1836.

1836

1 resource

Interview with Lavinia Williams-Yarborough.

Manuscript

1976.

1976

5 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatManuscriptCall number*MGZMT 5-415 v. 5Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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FormatCall numberItem location
FormatManuscriptCall number*MGZMT 5-415 v. 4Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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FormatCall numberItem location
FormatManuscriptCall number*MGZMT 5-415 v. 3Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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On the brink: DTH men in crisis.

Book/Text

1990

0 resources

The Negro dance under European eyes.

Book/Text

1927

0 resources

Cultural diversity in dance.

Book/Text

1995

0 resources

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Asadata Dafora papers, 1933-1963.

Archival Mix

1933-1963

1 item

Collection information

Finding aid

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FormatArchival MixCall numberSc MG 48 Box 1Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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Oral history interview with Donna Wood.

DVD

1992-625

8 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMoving imageCall numberSc Visual VRA-7a-bItem locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMoving imageCall numberSc Visual DVD-1521 Disc 7Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMoving imageCall numberSc Visual DVD-1521 Disc 6Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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The power of the drum.

Book/Text

1995

0 resources

Black troupe's triumphs.

Book/Text

1975

0 resources

Donald Eno Washington papers, 1968-2015

Archival Mix

1968-1993

9 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMixed materialCall numberSc MG 495 oversized folder 1Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMixed materialCall numberSc MG 495 Box 8Item locationOffsite

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FormatMixed materialCall numberSc MG 495 Box 7Item locationOffsite

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Alvin Ailey : an American visionary / issue editor, Muriel Topaz.

Book/Text

Amsterdam : Harwood Academic Publishers, 1996.

1996

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 04-239Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Swingin' at the Savoy : the memoir of a jazz dancer / Norma Miller with Evette Jensen.

Book/Text

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1996.

1996

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall number*MGYB (Miller) 96-14715Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Florence Mills : remembering 'The little blackbird', part 1.

Book/Text

Aranda, Australia : B. Egan, c1997.

1996

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc F 98-1216Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Dancing towards the light : a survival technique at Vassar College.

Book/Text

1994

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall number*MGZR (1990-1999)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Interview with Louis Johnson [sound recording]

Spoken word recording

[1968]

1968

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatSpoken word recordingCall number*MGZTC 3-1906Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Interview with Arthur Hall [sound recording]

Spoken word recording

[196-?]

196

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatSpoken word recordingCall number*MGZTC 3-1896Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Classic Black (Exhibition : 1996) [clippings]

Book/Text

1996-

1996-present

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall number*MGZRItem locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Bell, Arthur [clippings]

Book/Text

1998-present

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall number*MGZRItem locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Hudgins, Johnny [clippings]

Book/Text

[1926?]-

unknown-present

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall number*MGZRItem locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Plenty of Good Women Dancers : African American Women Hoofers from Philadelphia (Exhibition) [clippings]

Book/Text

1996.

1996

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall number*MGZRItem locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Josephine Baker and La Revue nègre : Paul Colin's lithographs of Le tumulte noir in Paris, 1927 / [new text] with an introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Karen C.C. Dalton.

Book/Text

New York : H.N. Abrams, 1998.

1998

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc+ G 98-126Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall number*MGYB+ (Baker) 98-12430Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance
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Interview with Arthur Bell [sound recording]

Spoken word recording

1998.

1998

3 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatSpoken word recordingCall number*MGZTC 3-2140 [sound cassette] reel 2Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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FormatCall numberItem location
FormatSpoken word recordingCall number*MGZTC 3-2140 (sound cassette) reel 1Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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FormatCall numberItem location
FormatSpoken word recordingCall number*MGZMT 3-2140 (transcript)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Albert Evans : refined zest.

Book/Text

1998

0 resources