[Dixielandjazz] Who to leave my recordings to?

[Dan Augustine]

Folks--
     Intimations of mortality: just wondering what i'm going to do 
with all my recordings when i die (hopefully not for a couple of 
decades yet).  I don't have very many, compared with some/most of 
you, but still. Guess i could just will them to my brother's kids 
(i'm single), but they don't know anything about this kind of music, 
probably don't like it.
     The other option is to give them to a university music school--in 
my case, either University of Nevada at Reno, or here at UT Austin.
     But wouldn't it be nice with there were other options?  What 
about giving my collection to an American Dixieland Library (not yet 
created), along with other folks' collections, so that a great 
incredible history of recorded OKOM would be available for fans, 
kids, scholars, musicians.  Digitize them for posterity.
     Or, if that's not possible, how about donating them somewhere, 
but then creating a world-wide database of dixieland collections at 
libraries and such from all over the world.  That might be even 
better.
     I just hate to see libraries and music schools get these great 
recordings and not care about them and not use them and make them 
available, nor have any way for fans and scholars to know they're 
available.
     Just pre-midnight lucubrations and nattering on....

Dan
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**  Dan Augustine     Austin, Texas     ds.augustine@mail.utexas.edu  **
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