Jean-Nickolaus Tretter's Night Rivers audiocassette collection, 1988-1998

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Summary

Creators:
Tretter, Jean-Nickolaus
Abstract:
This collection comprises audio recordings of Night Rivers, 1988-1998, a weekly gay and lesbian classical music radio program in Minnesota, produced and hosted by Jean-Nickolaus Tretter.
Extent:
4 Linear Feet 205 audiocassettes, 1 folder.
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Item number] Jean-Nickolaus Tretter's Night Rivers Audiocassette Collection, Coll2012-169, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Background

Scope and content:

This collection comprises 205 audiocassette recordings of Night Rivers, 1993-1998, a weekly gay and lesbian classical music radio program on KFAI Fresh Air Radio in the Minneapolis/St.Paul area, produced and hosted by Jean-Nickolaus Tretter. Also included are weather report forms for the Twin Cities area, dated from 1988-1993.

Biographical / historical:

Jean-Nickolaus Tretter, born in 1946, is a gay activist and archivist who founded the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) Studies housed at the University of Minnesota. Tretter was also the 16-year host and producer of Night Rivers, a program on KFAI described as "the only regularly broadcast gay and lesbian classical music show in America."

Tretter grew up in Little Falls, Minnesota. By 1972, Tretter came out as a gay man and left the Navy, where he had served during Vietnam as a linguist. Tretter returned to the Twin Cities and co-organized the first Twin Cities commemoration of the Stonewall Riots in June 1972. Around that same time, Tretter began to collect gay and lesbian materials. He went on to study social and cultural anthropology at the University of Minnesota in 1973, but dropped out in 1976 and began working as a counselor at a residence for youths with multiple disabilities. Meanwhile, he continued to collect GLBT materials, advocate for GLBT causes and conduct research on GLBT history. In 2000, the Tretter Collection was donated to the University of Minnesota.

Source:

"Jean-Nickolaus Tretter," Special Collections, Rare Books, & Manuscripts, University of Minnesota, https://www.lib.umn.edu/scrbm/tretter/jean-nickolaus-tretter (last accessed December 11, 2012).

Acquisition information:
Donor and date of collection unknown.
Processing information:

Collection processed by Monica Ramsy and Jay Chang, December 2012.

Arrangement:

This collection is arranged chronologically.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open to researchers. There are no access restrictions.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the ONE Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at USC Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Preferred citation:

[Item number] Jean-Nickolaus Tretter's Night Rivers Audiocassette Collection, Coll2012-169, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Location of this collection:
909 West Adams Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90007, US
Contact:
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