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The Legacy of Willis Conover in Hungary: Jazz Behind the Iron Curtain

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Presentation on the legacy of Voice of America broadcaster Willis Conover's interaction with and propagation of Hungarian jazz.
Date: May 24, 2017
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Music with Friends: The Role of Voice of America's Willis Conover in the Global Reach of Polish Jazz [Presentation Notes]

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Notes accompanying a presentation on Voice of America broadcaster Willis Conover's long association with Polish jazz, given at the meeting of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML) Congress held in Kraków, Poland July 14-19, 2019.
Date: July 18, 2019
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Past Sure Is Tense: Revisiting Rock History Narratives with the John Gilliland Pop Chronicles Interviews [Presentation]

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Presentation on the interviews present in the John Gilliland Collection, and how they can inform rock music historiography. It was presented at the joint Texas Chapter of the Music Library Association and the Southwest Chapter of the American Musicology Society meeting held on September 24-26, 2020.
Date: September 26, 2020
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Willis Conover’s Music USA: A Continuation of East-West Jazz Connections [Presentation]

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Presentation on the historical context of Willis Conover's long-running jazz program, Music USA, on the Voice of America, for the conference Music and the Nation III: Music in Postwar Transitions at the Université de Montréal held on October 18-20, 2018 in Montreal, Canada.
Date: October 19, 2018
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Preservation Strategies for Sound Recordings Supplemental Images]

This document holds supplemental images/figures for David Huff's article, "Preservation Strategies for Sound Recordings."
Date: August 2022
Creator: Huff, David
Object Type: Image
System: The UNT Digital Library
“Liberated from Serfdom”: Willis Conover and the Tallinn Jazz Festival of 1967 (open access)

“Liberated from Serfdom”: Willis Conover and the Tallinn Jazz Festival of 1967

This book chapter presents the Charles Lloyd Quartet’s performance at the 1967 Tallinn Jazz Festival, which broke the “stagecraft” of prior jazz diplomacy with the Soviet Union, and proceeded despite numerous official attempts to derail it, as a case study in the effectiveness of Willis Conover’s approach over the twelve years since his Voice of America program began in 1955.
Date: 2018
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Research Excursion of a Lifetime: How Serge Jaroff's Choir of Don Cossack Refugees Burnished My Reference Arsenal (open access)

Research Excursion of a Lifetime: How Serge Jaroff's Choir of Don Cossack Refugees Burnished My Reference Arsenal

Presentation script for a talk given at the Texas Chapter of the Music Library Association's (TMLA) annual fall meeting held in 2022. The presentation focuses on the speaker's exhaustive research into Serge Jaroff's Choir of Don Cossack Refugees and how it has helped her serve her patrons better.
Date: November 4, 2022
Creator: Arnold, Donna M.
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Music Library Picture Show: Creating a "Third Place" for Denton Students: Final Report (open access)

The Music Library Picture Show: Creating a "Third Place" for Denton Students: Final Report

Report states that the aim of the Music Library Picture Show demonstration was to learn about how event programming affects student attitudes about the library and to position the library as a viable "third place" for UNT students and visiting high school students. The project members promoted the events with the assistance of UNT Libraries Communications and Marketing which includes posters, small flyers, lawn signs, etc. Their results discuss the outcome of various events put on by the library, and how users felt about the events.
Date: October 6, 2023
Creator: Sprabary, Meghan & Wolski, Kristin A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library