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Tretter (Jean-Nickolaus) Night Rivers audiocassette collection
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Title: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter's Night Rivers audiocassette collection
creator:
Tretter, Jean-Nickolaus
Identifier/Call Number: Coll2012-169
Physical Description:
4 Linear Feet
205 audiocassettes, 1 folder.
Date (inclusive): 1988-1998
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.
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).
The collection is open to researchers. There are no access restrictions.
Donor and date of collection unknown.
[Item number] Jean-Nickolaus Tretter's
Night Rivers Audiocassette Collection, Coll2012-169, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Collection processed by Monica Ramsy and Jay Chang, December 2012.
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.
This collection is arranged chronologically.
Recorded episodes of
This Way Out (call numbers #AC1518, #AC1519, #AC1520, #AC1521, #AC1522) from 1996 have been separated from the collection and cataloged
into the ONE Archives audio collection.
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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Audiotapes
Classical music radio programs
Homosexuality on radio
Tretter, Jean-Nickolaus