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ARCHIVES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC AND CULTURE liner notesNO. 22 / 2017-2018 featuring Bootsy Collins & Dr. Scot Brown aaamc mission From the Desk of the Director The AAAMC is devoted to the collection, preservation, and dissemination of materials for Greetings, repository recognized and utilized the purpose of research and by multiple constituencies within the study of African American When I began my new role as Director university and beyond. Much gratitude is music and culture. of the AAAMC on January 1, 2018, it owed to these two prestigious scholars in aaamc.indiana.edu was evident to me that the past directors, Black music who carried the torch as past Drs. Portia Maultsby and Mellonee directors. Burnim, established a firm foundation As current Director of the AAAMC, Table of Contents and legacy for me to extend upon. Dr. my vision is to increase our collection Maultsby founded AAAMC in 1991 acquisitions and visibility in ways that From the Desk of working tirelessly for over two decades foster unique interactions amongst and the Director .........................2 while collecting a treasure trove of vital between the academy, industry and information representing our current community sectors. With this broad In the Vault: holdings on Black music and culture, vision in mind, I have initiated a few Recent Donations .................3 which include both published and strategies for success. First, during unpublished materials in a variety of spring 2018, I developed a new forum formats: A/V time-based media, paper, series called “Groovin’ Black” where Bootsy Collins Comes photographs, memorabilia (wood, metal, students, premiere scholars, acclaimed to Campus ...........................4 plastic, cloth, etc.). More specifically, this featured performers, music producers, content includes over 25,000 audio and supportive instrumentalists and vocalists, Funkology: A Conversation video field and commercial recordings, engineers and industry executives, Featuring Bootsy Collins & over 6,000 photographs, ethnographies among others, will participate in special Dr. Scot Brown.....................6 and oral histories, printed and manuscript programming, which features them in scores and sheet music, radio programs, dialogues about selected genres within media and museum production materials, the Black music continuum. In March, One on One Interview: personal papers and manuscripts, posters, the AAAMC initiated “Groovin’ Black” Michael Nixon ....................14 and other artifacts and ephemera. Clearly, by hosting a program called “Funkology: Dr. Maultsby was a true visionary. A Conversation with Bootsy Collins Featured Collection: Under Dr. Burnim’s leadership from and UCLA’s Dr. Scot Brown.” During From D.C. to Bali – 2014-2016, AAAMC made major strides “Funkology,” Collins and Brown were The Gertrude Rivers in attracting significant collections, positioned center-stage at the IU Cinema Robinson Collection ............22 most recently in the area of gospel to discuss, in front of a packed house music, through acquisitions from such and overflow room, the historical origins Dr. Mellonee V. Burnim distinguished industry leaders as Dr. of funk music as well as the former’s Retirement ........................25 Deborah Smith Pollard (2015), well- innovative role in the genre for several known Detroit gospel music announcer decades. The IU Soul Revue, directed by and scholar; Jacquie Gales Webb (2015), Mr. James Strong, served as the opening Sound Bytes: an award-winning producer and on-air performance before Collins and Brown Digital Initiatives ................26 gospel radio personality in Washington, entered the stage, thus contributing to D.C., who has written and produced our goal to bring our collections alive radio documentary segments for National through performances representing Public Radio and the Library of Congress; music genres housed at the AAAMC On the Cover: and Dr. Teresa Hairston, publisher of and featured in program events. During ARCHIVES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC AND CULTURE Gospel Today, Gospel Industry Today, their campus visit, Collins and Brown and founder of the Gospel Heritage also interacted, in a closed-forum, with liner notesNO. 22 / 2017-2018 Foundation, which gathers annually to numerous undergraduate students from celebrate trailblazers in gospel music the IU Soul Revue and the Jacobs School and to promote excellence in the field. of Music’s Jazz Department as well as featuring Bootsy Collins & Due to the profound efforts of Maultsby graduate students enrolled in my course, Dr. Scot Brown and Burnim, the AAAMC has made “African American Music: A Socio- significant contributions to the research, cultural Perspective,” thus providing teaching and service missions of Indiana aspiring performers, industry insiders and University through the collection, researchers with access and rare insight documentation, contextualization and from celebrated experts. Needless to say, dissemination of music and associated “Funkology” was a hit on campus and Bootsy Collins on stage at the cultural practices of people of African beyond, as the AAAMC continues to IU Cinema for “Funkology” descent in the United States. Even more, receive numerous responses of affirmation the AAAMC has evolved into a valued from researchers, students, performers 2 and music enthusiasts throughout the partnerships among other definitive as we work to preserve, document nation. Even more, this event sparked components that shape our specific and and affirm the valuable experiences the development of new relationships broad aims. We are also reconstituting and legacies of creative people who between the Archives and potential our national advisory board and research have enriched the world through their collection donors who desire to preserve associates to ensure that AAAMC expressive voices. I look forward to their unique life-stories and experiences sustains meaningful engagement and seeing you soon at Indiana University’s in Black music at the AAAMC; a vital import within academic, industry and Archives of African American Music and space that can affirm and disseminate community settings. These are but a Culture. their legacies globally. I am also excited few of our initiatives that will assist us to note that “Funkology” was the with bringing our collections alive and All the best, result of a collaborative effort, with the galvanizing diverse partnerships around following entities on campus serving as tangible efforts to preserve and transmit co-sponsors, providing specific resources the legacy of Black music and culture and expertise for the success of the widely. event: Office of the Provost; Office of It is my pleasure to serve as the the Vice President for Diversity, Equity, director of the AAAMC. However, as and Multicultural Affairs; IU Cinema; we move towards the future, it is going Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center; to take all of our efforts to maintain the Department of African American and Archives as a relevant groundbreaking African Diaspora Studies; and the source on Black music and culture. I African American Arts Institute. ask that you consider supporting this Along with special programming noble cause through your presence at associated with our “Groovin’ Black” our many events, ongoing use of our forum, AAAMC is developing a three collections and other resources in person to five year strategic plan focusing on and online, and financial gifts to the collection development, programming, AAAMC as well as material donations. I Tyron Cooper, Ph.D. and funding as well as on and off campus do hope you will join us at the AAAMC Director of AAAMC In the Vault: Recent Donations CD/DVD/Book Donors: ACT Music DL Media Mack Ave. Records Shorefire Media AfroPop Doreen Da Agostino Manifesto Records Silva Screen Albany Records Dust to Digital Mark Pucci Media Simple Complex All Eyes Media Ebony Hillbillies Mascot Label Group Smithsonian Folkways Atom Splitter PR ECM Records Michael Woods Sony Legacy Basin Street Records Engine Entertainment Minor Music Records Stax Records Bear Family Records Fat Beats Missing Piece Group Stones Throw Bellamy Group Fat Possum Motema Strange Music Big Hassle FLO Management MVD Ent. Group Studio Rockers Blind Raccoon Gearshifter Blues New World Records Sunyata Records Blue Engine Records Girlie Action Media Numero Group Terri Hinte Blues Images Glass Onyon PR One Root Music Tiny Human Braithwaite & Katz Gospel Friend Orleans Records Tom Estey PR Brooks Long Great Scott Prod. Paraclete Press Tyscot Records Calabro Music Media Ground Up Music PIAS Univ. Chicago Press Capitol Christian Hearth Music Plaid Room Records Univ. Florida Press Capitol Entertainment Howlin’ Wuelf Media Press Junkie PR Univ. Illinois Press Cedille Records I.M. Records Rat Pack Records Verve Label Group Chris Daniels Imaginator Records Reach Records Very Special Rec. Chris Thomas King International Anthem Record Kicks VP Records Cleopatra Records JAG Entertainment Reggie Young Warner Music Compunctio Records Jazz Promo Services Resonance Records Wax Poetics Concord Music Group JDI Records Rhino Entertainment WindingWay Records Conqueroo Kato Hammond Rock Paper Scissors Wolf Records Culture Power 45 Kayos Productions Ropeadope Records Woodstock Sessions Darryl Yokley Louisiana Red Hot Secret Stash Delmark Records Lydia Liebman Secretly Canadian Dennis Laffoon M.C. Records Shanachie Ent. The AAAMC welcomes donations of photographs, film, video, sound recordings, music, magazines, personal papers, and other research