The collection is arranged alphabetically into 13 series; each series is broken into item level descriptions for each album.
Series I. Classical (CAL)
Series II. Country (CON)
Series III. Early Parlor Songs (EPS)
Series IV. Eastern European (EUR)
Series V. Folk (FLK)
Series VI. Foster (FOS)
Series VII. Gospel (GOS)
Series VIII. Jazz (JAZ)
Series IX. Popular (POP)
Series X. Radio (RAD)
Series XI. Ragtime (RAG)
Series XII. Soundtracks (SDT)
Series XIII. Soul (SOL)
This collection was gifted to The Center for American Music Stephen Foster Hall Archives by Dr. Charles Hamm in 2005.
Dr. Charles Edward Hamm was born in Charlottesville, Va., on April 21, 1925. In 1947, he graduated from the University of Virginia with a BA in music. Dr. Hamm went on to earn his MFA in 1950 and his PhD in musicology from Princeton University in 1960. He taught at Princeton, the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Tulane University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Dartmouth College. Dr. Hamm was also president of the American Musicological Society from 1972-1974. He retired professionally in 1989.
Reflected in the scope of his sound recording collection, Dr. Hamm focused his studies on twentieth century popular American music, publishing many journal articles and books on the subject. His writings later in his career delved more deeply into the growing use of mass media in late-twentieth century musical styles and rituals, and the intercultural reception of music.
The Charles Hamm Recordings are housed in individual record sleeves. Most of the sleeves are the original record album covers. The records are housed standing vertically on the shelf space so as to reduce wear and warping of the LPs. Each series in this collection consists of individual LPs with various artists. The records are arranged into thirteen series.
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Charles Hamm Recordings, 1857-1999, HAMM.2005, Center for American Music, University of Pittsburgh.
This collection was previously processed by Tim Smolko in 2005 at an item level due to the nature of sound recordings. The collection was entered into Archivists' Toolkit by Melanie Root in May of 2010.
While the University of Pittsburgh owns the physical items in this collection, the recordings are all under the copyright of their respective Music Labels. Their are no recordings in the public domain. All rights to use and distribution are reserved by the recordings' respective Music Labels.
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