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Gordon Spencer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0385

Scope and Contents

Consists of audio recordings of Spencer's unpublished interviews and oral histories of prominent jazz and contemporary classical artists. The interviewees include Ravi Shankar, Leopold Stokowski, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Billy Holiday, Moondog, Philip Glass, Tony Scott, and many others, reflecting upon music, life experiences, relationships, and societal issues. They will prove useful to the fields of history, musical performance, music education, musicology, sociology, anthropology, and communication studies. The collection also holds broadcast recordings of Gordon's radio voicework and several recordings he made while travelling.

Dates

  • 1955 - 2004

Creator

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright status unknown

Extent

4 Linear Feet (Marr: 58 open reel audiotapes, 91 compact cassettes, 9 DATs, 8 CD-Rs)

Language of Materials

English

Title
Gordon Spencer Collection
Author
Marr: Rebekah Green, Andrew Hansbrough
Date
2020
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Special Collections and Archives Repository