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World War II Pearl Harbor Survivors Oral History Project
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Texas Community History Oral History Project
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World War II Prisoners of War Oral History Project
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Civilian Conservation Corps History Oral History Project
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UNT and TWU Library and Library School History Oral History Project
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Business Archives Project
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World War II Pacific Theater Oral History Project
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World War II Pacific Theater (Submarine Service) Oral History Project
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Dallas LGBT Oral History Project
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Texas Community Oral History Project
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Oral History Interview with Merrill Ellis, July 1-2, 1981
Interview with Merrill Ellis, a composer and music professor at the University of North Texas, regarding his education, career in music, compositions, and the developments he spearheaded in the field of electronic compostion.
Date:
July 2, 1981
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E.; Mailman, Martin S. & Ellis, Merrill, 1916-1981
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with John Murphy, April 6 and 13, 2021
Video recording of interview with John Murphy, UNT professor of jazz studies. Murphy discusses his youth in Baltimore, Maryland, during the 1960s and 1970s including his music education at Baltimore County Public Schools, and the musical influence of the Left Bank Jazz Society; His experience as a UNT student in the jazz studies and music theory programs (1981-1986); playing saxophone in the One O’clock Lab Band and at venues around Denton; His research as an ethnomusicologist studying Cuban and Brazilian music and work as a professor at Western Illinois University (1992-2001) then the University of North Texas (2001-2020) where he served in faculty and administrative roles to further develop the jazz studies program and help preserve the program’s history.
Date:
{2021-04-06,2021-04-13}
Creator:
Noel, Heather & Murphy, John P. (John Patrick)
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Walter H. Hodgson, November 17, 1978
Interview with Walter Hodgson, a retired university professor-administrator and former dean of the North Texas State University School of Music, concerning his experiences as dean of NTSU School of Music. Hodgson discusses his early years at NTSU, the development of the jazz program, and his appointment as dean. He also comments on the following people: Silvio Scionti, Mary McCormic, George Morey, Frank McKinley, Wilfred Bain, Lloyd Hibberd, Helen Hewitt, Harry Parshall, Frank Mainous, Maurice McAdow, Ralph Daniel, Walter Robert, Floyd Graham, and John Haynie.
Date:
November 17, 1978
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E.; Myers, Marceau & Hodgson, W. H. (Walter H.)
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Wilfred Bain, December 12, 1978
Interview with Wilfred Bain, dean of the North Texas State University School of Music from 1938-1947, concerning his experiences in the establishment of the NTSU School of Music as one of national prominence. Bain discusses his education and musical background, his appointment as chairman of the Department of Music, the establishment of the NTSU School of Music and his appointment as dean, the establishment of the jazz program, and his appointment as dean of the School of Music at Indiana University. He also comments on President W. Joseph McConnell, Silvio Scionti, Floyd Graham, Mary McCormic, Helen Hewitt, Walter Robert, Ralph Daniel, and the "Aces of Collegeland."
Date:
December 12, 1978
Creator:
Myers, Marceau & Bain, Wilfred C. (Wilfred Conwell), 1908-1997
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with David McGuire, April 2, 1990
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Interview with David McGuire, a college professor from Waldo, Kansas, regarding his education and music background, career in music education at the University of North Texas, the development of the College of Music, and band history.
Date:
April 2, 1990
Creator:
Spencer, David & McGuire, David C.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Marla Bullard, December 14, 2003
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Interview with salesperson Marla Bullard. The interview includes Bullard's personal experiences about the Texas International Pop Festival. Bullard talks about her Mexican-American family values, her use of drugs and alcohol in high school, her attitudes toward the Vietnam War, hippie activities at Allen's Landing in Houston, Texas, conflicts between rednecks and hippies, her attraction to the musical groups of the Sixties, the importance of lyrics in Sixties music, her decision to attend the festival, drug use at the festival, Janis Joplin's performance, and the influence of the festival on her life.
Date:
December 14, 2003
Creator:
Tittle, Dennis & Bullard, Marla
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Randell Fields, December 4, 2003
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Interview with Randell Fields. The interview includes Fields' personal experiences about attending the Texas International Pop Festival in Lewisville, Texas, early youth in rural Texas, and transferring high schools. Fields also talks about attendance at the "Big D Jamboree," the effects of his parent's divorce and influence of his young stepmother's interest in current music, student challenges to authority at North Texas Mesquite High School, rock 'n roll music of the Sixties, the influence of the radio station KZEW, attending the festival accompanied by his brother, sister, and father, observing the festival from outside the grounds, and the significance of the festival.
Date:
December 4, 2003
Creator:
Tittle, Dennis & Fields, Randell
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Joe Cole, January 20, 2004
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Interview with photojournalist and artist Joe Cole. The interview includes Cole's personal experiences about the Texas International Pop Festival. Cole talks about his parents' reaction to changes in the Sixties, his introduction to marijuana, his attraction to the music of the Beatles, his initial introduction to the Fort Worth hippie culture, his views towards the Vietnam war, obtaining an agricultural exemption from his local draft board, Sixties music and its message, his comments about the Chicago Transit Authority, Canned Heat, and Led Zeppelin, activities of the Hog Farm, drug usage at the festival, festival security personnel, "bad trip" tents, skinny-dipping in Lake Dallas, and the lasting influence of the festival on his life.
Date:
January 20, 2004
Creator:
Tittle, Dennis & Cole, Joe
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Harold Corey, November 19, 2003
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Interview with businessman Harold Corey. The interview includes Corey's personal experiences about the Texas International Pop Festival. Corey talks about his parents' reaction to the social, political, and cultural changes of the Sixties, his early interest in popular music, protests against the Vietnam War, conflicts with the redneck culture, the influence of the Beatles on the music of the Sixties, the influence of the "British Invasion," meeting the Grand Funk Railroad at the festival, Hog Farm, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, the sale and use of drugs, the trip tent, festival security, activities at the campgrounds, comments about Ten Years After, and the lasting effects of the festival on his life. The interview includes an appendix with a campground map and festival advertisement.
Date:
November 19, 2003
Creator:
Tittle, Dennis & Corey, Harold
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with John Haynie, May 4, 1990
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Interview with John Haynie, professor of trumpet at the University of North Texas from Ralls, Texas, regarding his career at the College of Music at UNT, the growth and development of the school, his colleagues, students, and family.
Date:
May 4, 1990
Creator:
Spencer, David & Haynie, John
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with "Zeke" Campbell, September 14, 1996
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Interview with William M. "Zeke" Campbell, musician, concerning his experiences as a member of the "Light Crust Doughboys" western swing band, 1935-42. Campbell also discusses his early radio career, appearances in the movies of Gene Autry, and his musical influences. Includes a photocopy of a newspaper article from the Fort Worth Star Telegram dated June 17-18, 1981 written by Mike H. Price. Article is titled, "He may not be crusty but he's still in the swing" [1] page.
Date:
September 14, 1996
Creator:
Daniels, John D.; Schotte, Will & Campbell, William M.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Johnny Cox, February 14, 2004
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Interview with printer Johnny Cox. The interview includes Cox's personal experiences about attending the Texas International Pop Festival in Lewisville, Texas, enrolling in Texas Tech University, and playing in bands while at Texas Tech. Cox talks about generational conflicts with his parents, taking guitar lessons as a teenager, the appeal of the Beatles and their music, his high school friends and activities, changing clothing styles in the Sixties, meeting his first wife, his opposition to the Vietnam War, his decision to attend the Texas International Pop Festival, drug use at the festival, his first personal use of LSD, how LSD put the music in a different perspective for him, the "free stage," and the Texas International Pop Festival as a turning point in his life. He also comments on Janis Joplin's performance, Canned Heat and B.B. King, the performances of Led Zeppelin and Spirit, and crowd behavior at the festival.
Date:
February 14, 2004
Creator:
Tittle, Dennis & Cox, Johnny
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Frank McKinley, April 16, 1990
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Interview with Frank McKinley concerning his career in music at the University of North Texas, where he was director of choral music at the School of music at North Texas State College and North Texas State University, which became UNT. McKinley discusses his educational background, musical training, and his colleagues.
Date:
April 16, 1990
Creator:
Spencer, David & McKinley, Frank
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Walter H. Hodgson, March 10, 1977
Interview with Walter Hodgson, a retired university professor-administrator, concerning his recollections of the formation of the jazz program at North Texas State College while dean of the School of Music.
Date:
March 10, 1977
Creator:
Wysocki, Kathy & Hodgson, Walter H.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Gene Hall, February 1991
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Interviews with Morris E. ("Gene") Hall, a musician and college professor, concerning his reflections and personal role in establishing the jazz studies program in the College of Music at North Texas State College.
Date:
February 1991
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E.; Cogswell, Michael & Hall, Gene (Conductor)
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Joe Frank Ferguson, November 9, 1996
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Interview with Joe Frank Ferguson, musician and vocalist, concerning his experiences as a musician/vocalist with Bob Will's "Texas playboys" and the "Light Crust Doughboys" western swing bands, 1936-42; comments about Bob Willis and band members Marvin Montgomery, Kenneth Pitts, Al Stricklin, "Smokey" Dacus, "Knocky" Parker, Leon McAuliffe, Eldon Shamblin; forming his own groups and playing the Fort Worth, Texas, night club circuit, 1950-70; comments about western swing, big band, and pop music.
Date:
November 9, 1996
Creator:
Daniels, John D.; Schotte, Will & Ferguson, Joe Frank
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with A. W. Dupree Jr., 1990
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Interview with A. W. Dupree Jr., a musician and longtime resident of Hamilton Park from Dallas, Texas. Dupree discusses growing up in Old North Dallas, his initial interest in music, different jobs, joining the Army and working as a mechanic with the Tuskegee Airmen in WWII, forming a band, performing solo at nightclubs, his marriage and family, moving to Hamilton Park, church life, neighborhood developments, and the Civic League.
Date:
1990-07/1990-08
Creator:
Wilson, William H. & Dupree, A. W., Jr.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Kim Phillips, March 20, 2013
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Interview with Kim Phillips, vice-president of the Denton Conventions and Visitors Bureau from Longview, Texas. Phillips discusses her love of Denton, her childhood and education, the music scene, the sense of community,, the CVB's work, local history, Quakertown, the Chamber of Commerce, the black and Hispanic communities, and the Confederate memorial. In appendix is a picture of Denton County Courthouse and the County Confederate Memorial.
Date:
March 20, 2013
Creator:
Stallings, Chelsea & Phillips, Kim
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Jack Mahan, October 17, 1980
Audio interview with Jack Mahan, a teacher, musician, and former student of Colonel Earl D. Irons, regarding his memories of studying under the bandmaster at the University of Texas at Arlington. Mahan discusses his own recollections as well as Colonel's involvement with the American Bandmasters Association and other musical organizations.
Date:
October 17, 1980
Creator:
Barrow, Gary & Mahan, Jack
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Leon Brown, September 29, 1982
Interview with Leon Brown, professor of Trombone at the School of Music at North Texas State University. Brown discusses his work with Bob Makovsky, former band director and music department head at Oklahoma A&M College.
Date:
September 29, 1982
Creator:
Dugger, Rick & Brown, Leon
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Maurice McAdow, October 17, 1982
Interview with Maurice McAdow, former band director of North Texas State University. The interview includes McAdow's personal experiences about his early career as a musician, being appointment to faculty at North Texas, and the development of the North Texas band program.
Date:
October 17, 1982
Creator:
Paul, Steve & McAdow, Maurice
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Ana R. Alonso-Minutti, October 21, 2009
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Interview with assistant professor of music history at UNT Ana R. Alonso-Minutti, Mexican-born immigrant to Dallas, as part of the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. The interview includes Alonso-Minutti's personal experiences of childhood and education in Mexico, attending college at Universidad de las Americas, discovering music history as a discipline of study, a one-year course of study in theology in Dallas, choir direction at a church in England, attending graduate school, and accepting a job offer from UNT. Additionally, Alonso-Minutti discusses family history, her grandparents' migration from Spain and Italy, her first impressions of the U.S., the decision to study musicology in the U.S. or Great Britain, the citizenship process, and the contrast of life in Mexico, England, California, and Texas.
Date:
October 21, 2009
Creator:
Onspaugh, Patrick & Alonso-Minutti, Ana R.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Robert Stewart, March 27, 2003
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Interview with jazz musician Robert "Bob" Stewart. In the interview, Steward speaks about his early interest in music, his first drum set, first professional job with the Shorty Clements Band, attending college, his employment as a disk jockey, his definition of jazz, playing with the Charles Scott Band in fort Worth, after-hours clubs in Fort Worth, jazz's role in bringing together black and white musicians, various jazz clubs and venues in Fort Worth, musicians unions, the lack of full-time employment opportunities for jazz musicians in Fort Worth, the Fort Worth jazz scene, and peculiarities of Texas jazz and the "Texas Sound." The interview includes an appendix with photographs.
Date:
March 27, 2003
Creator:
Brown, Peggy Brandt & Stewart, Robert
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Johnny Case, March 5, 2003
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Interview with jazz pianist Johnny Case. In the interview, Case talks about his family's acquaintance with Ernest Tubb, his early interest in rhythm and blues, how his parents, Elvis Presley, and local radio stations influenced his musical career, learning to play the piano and his interest in jazz, early gigs in Oklahoma and northeast Texas, his family's move from Paris, Texas to Dallas and his playing gigs at several clubs there, moving to Fort Worth, his collaboration with Tom Morrell in producing the 'How the West Was Swung' albums, his comments about the demise of western swings, gigs and clubs in Fort Worth, his transition from playing western swing to jazz, various jazz artists, okaying for African-American audiences, avant-garde jazz and its promoters, difficulties in making a full-time living as a jazz artist in Fort Worth, his employment at Sardine's Italian Restaurant in Fort Worth, the Caravan of Dreams and the resurgence of jazz in Fort Worth, his relationship with the local musicians union, Texas jazz, and the evolution of jazz in Fort Worth. The interview includes an appendix with an article, Case's discography, and Case's notes on various jazz musicians and venues.
Date:
March 5, 2003
Creator:
Brown, Peggy Brandt & Case, Johnny
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library