[Dixielandjazz] Re: Who(m) to leave my recordings to?

[Dan Augustine]

Rebecca and others--
    Good idea about the Tulane Jazz Museum.  But what about donating my recordings (etc.) to either the Library of Congress or the Smithsonian?  Do they accept donations like that?  They'd (eventually) make the materials accessible to the public, wouldn't they?  Would they accept everything, or pick and choose?

    Dan
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>From: "Rebecca Thompson" <res0a3qw@verizon.net>
>To: "'Dan Augustine'" <ds.augustine@mail.utexas.edu>,
>	"DJML" <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
>Subject: RE: [Dixielandjazz] Who to leave my recordings to?
>Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 07:40:58 -0600
>
>I have wondered about the recordings that Jim and I have collected.  Our
>kids, although they say they like it, would probably just throw them
>out, or give to Goodwill, who in turn, would probably throw them out!  I
>will be interested in the comments from the list.
>WHAT A GREAT IDEA OF A "TRADITIONAL MUSIC LIBRARY"!  (Dixieland is a
>location).  Perhaps the City of New Orleans' French Quarter would be a
>place to start since they are a National Park! The Jazz Museum there is
>moving to a larger location in Louis Armstrong Park.  They might be
>interested in expanding their collection to include books, recordings,
>etc. 
>OR Tulane University already has a large collection of oral, written and
>recorded history.  They might accept the donation.
>Thanks Dan, for your late-night pondering.
>Rebecca Thompson
>-----Original Message-----
>Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 11:26 PM
>Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Who to leave my recordings to?
>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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