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ARCHIVES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC AND CULTURE liner notesNO. 23 / 2018-2019 The Calloways: A Family Affair in Music and Entrepreneurship aaamc mission From the Desk of the Director The AAAMC is devoted to the collection, preservation, and dissemination of materials for Greetings, Jacobs School of Music, and 2019 elected the purpose of research and As Director of AAAMC, I am excited Fellow of the American Academy of Arts study of African American to report that our premiere repository and Sciences. Simpson’s collection extends music and culture. for Black music and culture at Indiana our holdings on African American aaamc.indiana.edu University has experienced an increase performers of Western European classical in collection acquisitions and visibility music. It also documents the dualistic in ways that foster connections between character of her creative output, as she Table of Contents academy, industry and community successfully participates in two distinct sectors. To date our holdings include musical worlds—African American and From the Desk of 168 distinct special collections, graphic European performance traditions. the Director .........................2 material inclusive of 180 posters and over Along with new acquisitions, we 10,000 photographs, approximately 2,500 have increased accessibility by “bringing In the Vault: moving image materials in 14 different our collections alive,” AAAMC’s motto, Recent Donations .................3 formats, 22,000 sound recordings in 12 offering eclectic programs featuring different formats, 420 books and 4907 exhibits, talks, and performances by born digital files. Among these cultural groundbreaking artists and scholars who One-On-One Interview: materials are two major new special shed light on the content of our diverse The Calloways - collections, donated during the 2018-19 holdings. One of our most highly praised A Family Affair in Music academic year: the Calloway Collection artistic events was “The Archives of and Entrepreneurship ............4 and the Marietta Simpson Collection. African American Music and Culture The Calloway Collection includes press presents Marietta Simpson: Live in Featured Collection: clippings, photographs, correspondence, Concert,” in WTIU’s Studio 6 on February Introducing the Calloway Collection .............11 audio and video recordings, performance 17, 2019. This occasion was prompted by contracts, tour itineraries and other Simpson’s solo debut studio recording, One-On-One Interview intriguing documents that chronicle Crooked Stick: Songs in a Strange Land. with Marietta Simpson ........12 the close kinship, music production, The album, which I produced and businesses, and community engagement released on my own recording label Featured Collection: of Reggie, Vincent, and Gregory Calloway, Art Salad Productions, consists of eight Introducing the Marietta along with their mother and longtime arrangements of Negro spirituals and Simpson Collection .............20 manager Gloria Calloway Larson. One three spoken word originals penned browse through this collection and the by Simpson, who performed them in Crooked Stick: viewer will quickly realize how this unique vernacular dialect. Songs in a Strange Land ......21 family profoundly impacted the careers Upon completion of the project, I of artists at the highest echelon of the invited Simpson to perform songs from AAAMC Community popular music industry, from electro- Crooked Stick in front of a live audience. Engagement.......................24 funk pioneers Midnight Star (founded by Simpson mesmerized audience members Reggie), to pop duo sensation Calloway through her vocal interpretations Sound Bytes: (featuring Reggie and Vincent), to The embodying the tradition and spirit Digital Initiatives ................26 Deele (with famed artists/producers of Black folk expression couched in a Kenneth “Baby Face” Edmonds and contemporary eight-piece instrumental Antonio “L.A.” Reid), to hitmakers Teddy accompaniment, which riffed on blues, On the Cover: Pendergrass, Gladys Knight, and LeVert. jazz, gospel and Latin music styles. This ARCHIVES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC AND CULTURE Gloria (affectionately called “mom” by event continues to be touted by attendees numerous industry insiders and me) who praise the performance as meaningful liner notesNO. 23 / 2018-2019 was the catalyst for the totality of the art centering the consciousness, voice The Calloways: A Family Affair in Music and Entrepreneurship Calloways’ endeavors in music, business and creative enterprise of the African and service to their home community, American community. Filmed by WTIU Cincinnati. for television, the concert is projected to The Marietta Simpson Collection air on PBS in February 2020. Simpson’s consists of programs, press clippings, studio album, along with audio and video photographs, scrapbooks, awards, footage from rehearsals, will be added correspondence, memorabilia, posters, to the Marietta Simpson Collection. costumes, and audio and video recordings For more details, see Jamaal Baptiste’s spanning from early childhood to the descriptive summary of the concert event Vincent and Reggie Calloway, 2005. professional career of Marietta Simpson, in this issue. an internationally acclaimed mezzo- Another notable AAAMC event soprano, IU Rudy Professor of Voice in the highlighted the paintings of Bloomington- 2 based African American visual artist document a cast of unsung creators and we are to be impactful in this endeavor, Joel Washington. “Music and Art with industry executives who shape iconic it will require the strength and resources the Archives of African American Music sounds and perceptions of African of the entire “village” as we preserve and and Culture and Joel Washington” American featured artists. We are disseminate Black music and culture at was presented as part of IU Arts & also working to increase support for Indiana University’s Archives of African Humanities Council’s First Thursdays, collection development, accessibility, American Music and Culture. I look a monthly festival “showcasing the publication and programming. forward to seeing you soon, and wish diversity of arts and humanities Additionally, the reformulation of our you the very best. on campus and throughout the national advisory board and research Bloomington community.” “Music and associates is progressing toward Yours, Art” encompassed multiple platforms completion this year, which will serve in the engagement of African American AAAMC’s goal to sustain meaningful artistic expression. Mirroring AAAMC engagement and relevance within holdings, Washington’s paintings academic, industry and community included iconic Black musicians circles. These collective efforts, along associated with blues, gospel, soul, with others not mentioned here, reflect and rock. Listening stations, music the fact that there remains much work to scavenger hunts, coloring tables and do in accomplishing AAAMC’s vision to live performances featuring IU students “bring inspiration and innovation to the provided other means by which the documentation, exploration and sharing public experienced Black art represented of Black music and culture.” Please in our collections. consider supporting this novel cause Along with inspiring public through your presence at our public programming, AAAMC continues to events, use of our resources in person build new relationships reflecting a and online, as well as donations of Tyron Cooper, Ph.D. more extensive preservation agenda to cultural materials and financial gifts. If Director of AAAMC In the Vault: Recent Donations In addition to the new collections featured in this issue, the following individuals and companies also generously donated CDs, DVDs, music, books and other materials over the past year. Many of these items were submitted for review in Black Grooves (www.blackgrooves.org), the AAAMC’s online music review site. All Eyes Media Cindy Byram PR JDI Records Naxos Secretly Canadian Alligator Records Concord Music Group Jennifer Cowling Now-Again Records Shanachie Ent. Archeophone Records Conqueroo Kris Gillespie Numero Group Shorefire Media Audio Preservation De’caf Records L. Elnaggar Orlando Watson Single Lock Records Fund Dennis Laffoon L. Sabini OWL Music+Media Smithsonian Folkways Ballantyne DL Media Lightyear Ent. Per Notini Sony Legacy Communications Doreen D’Agostino Louis Rosen Peter McDowell Arts Swiftpost Basin Street Records Dust-to-Digital Louisiana Red Hot PIAS Terri Hinte Bear Family Records Elizabeth Mitchell Lydia Liebman PR Portia K. Maultsby Tiny Human Blind Raccoon eOne Music Lynn Carratt PR Press Junkie PR TJ Jones Productions Blue Engine Records Fat Possum M.C. Records Proud Papa PR Tosin Aribisala Blue Note Forced Exposure Mack Ave. Records Provident Label Group Two Sheps That Pass Blues Images Fully Altered Media Marietta Simpson Real World Records Tyscot Records Bob Frank Ent. Glass Onyon PR Mark Pucci Media Resonance Records Universal Music Bootsy Collins GMWA Detroit Mascot Label Group Rhyme & Reason Verve Label Group Braithwaite & Katz Great Scott PR Mason Jar Media Records W. J. Laws Jr. Camilla George Harbinger Records Merlis For Hire Rock Paper Scissors William Vanden Dries Capitol Entertainment Integrity Music Michael Nixon Ronald Lewis WindingWay Records Carol Spindel International Anthem Michael Woods Roni Music Wolf Records CEC Management JAG Entertainment Motema Ropeadope Records Woodward Avenue Cedille Records Jared Nickerson MRI Assoc. Labels S-Curve Records Records Chase Music Group