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Title: Douglas Daniels papers
Identifier/Call Number: UArch FacP 54
Language of Material:
English
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Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Physical Description:
2.8 Linear Feet;
(2 carton and 34 audiocassettes)
Creator:
Daniels, Douglas
Date (inclusive): 1933-2008
Date (bulk): 1981-2008
Abstract: The collection contains recorded and transcribed interviews conducted by Douglas Daniels regarding the life and career of
musician Lester Young in preparation for his book,
Lester Leaps In: The Life and Times of Lester 'Pres' Young, and also regarding the history of the Santa Barbara Blues Society.
Physical Location: Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
The materials have been arranged into three series by topic and material type.
- Series 1: Lester Young manuscript materials
- Series 2: Santa Barbara Blues Society materials
- Series 3: Audiovisual materials
Douglas Daniels is a Professor Emeritus of both the Department of Black Studies and the Department of History at the University
of California, Santa Barbara. He received his BA in Political Science from the University of Chicago, and M.A. and Ph. D.
in History from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include African American history, the history
of jazz, African popular music, and the use of oral history and photography in the study of culture.
Dr. Daniels research and contributions have been recognized by a variety of organizations. He has received the San Francisco
African American Historical and Cultural Society Keynote Speaker Award in 2005 for
Pioneer Urbanites, a Fulbright Fellow African Regional Research Program grant for research in Kenya and Tanzania, and a Fulbright Fellowship
for teaching African American History and the History of Jazz in Japan. He also works as a consultant for the National Endowment
for the Humanities, the National Museum of African American Music, and for Carnegie Hall.
The collection is open for research
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Donated from Douglas Daniels in October 2019.
[Identification of Item], Douglas Daniels Papers, UArch FacP 54. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara
Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
The collection contains recorded and transcribed interviews from family, close friends, and musicians that played with Lester
Young. Interviews range from the beginning of Lester Young's career to the end with the decline of his health, from the perspective
of those that knew him. Some printed transcriptions have marked notes made by Douglas Daniels.
Shirley Kennedy papers. UArch FacP 67. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Santa Barbara Jazz Society collection. PA Mss 71. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University
of California, Santa Barbara.