Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Daniels, Douglas
- 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.
- Extent:
- 2.8 Linear Feet; (2 carton and 34 audiocassettes)
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of Item], Douglas Daniels Papers, UArch FacP 54. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Background
- Scope and content:
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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.
- Biographical / historical:
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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.
- Acquisition information:
- Donated from Douglas Daniels in October 2019.
- Arrangement:
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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
- Physical location:
- Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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The collection is open for research
- Terms of access:
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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.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of Item], Douglas Daniels Papers, UArch FacP 54. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Location of this collection:
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UC Santa Barbara LibrarySanta Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
- Contact:
- (805) 893-3062