Photo by Carl Fleischhauer. Dorothy Sara Lee Speaks During Presentation of Wax Cylinder Recordings. United States Nebraska Macy, 1983. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/omhbib000607/. African American, Archives, Folklore, Ethnomusicology Dorothy Sara Lee (1951-2005) Dorothy Sara Lee was an African American folklorist, ethnomusicologist, archivist, and consummate scholar and ethnographer of Native American and Fijian musics and cultures. Born in …
Photo from University of California Press via Columbia College African American, Music, Archives Samuel A. Floyd, PhD (1937-2016) A music educator, archivist, and historian, Samuel A. Floyd Jr’s goal was to document and preserve the spectrum of Black music in written and performed forms to express African Diasporic cultures across genre, time period, geographic region, …
Photo courtesy of Chinese Historical Society of America Historian, Master Archivist, “Dean of Chinese American Studies” Him Mark Lai (1925-2009) Born in San Francisco Chinatown in 1925, Him Mark Lai was a pioneering self-taught scholar, whose extensive research and archives have been a taproot for generations of students and researchers of Chinese American history. With …