Speaking of Music, and Other Things event recordings
Abstract
Speaking of Music, and Other Things was a public interview series held at The New School, consisting of conversations between concert promoter Danny Kapilian and popular musician guests. The collection consists of sound recordings of these interviews.
Dates
- 1990 September 25-1991 March 5
Creator
- Baker, LaVern (19291111-19970310) (Speaker, Person)
- Bennett, Tony (Anthony Dominick), 1926-2023 (Speaker, Person)
- Byrne, David, 1952- (Speaker, Person)
- Faithfull, Marianne (19461229) (Speaker, Person)
- Kapilian, Danny (Interviewer, Person)
- New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y. : 1919-1997) (Host institution, Organization)
- Schneider, Fred (Frederick W.), 1951- (Speaker, Person)
- Vega, Suzanne (Suzanne Nadine) (1959-07-11) (Speaker, Person)
Extent
12 1/4 inch Audio Cassette
Language of Materials
English
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of audio recordings of public interviews conducted by New School guest instructor Danny Kapilian from the Fall 1990 and Spring 1991 semesters for his non-credit course, Speaking of Music, and Other Things. There is no known video of the events. The New School Archives has no recordings of the advertised Fall 1991 interviews. The New School Archives staff do not know if those interviews were not recorded, were recorded and subsequently lost, or if they were never held.
Not all conversations advertised in the New School 1990 and 1991 course catalogs are present in the collection.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use. Please contact archivist@newschool.edu for appointment.
Conditions Governing Use
To publish material from this collection, permission must be obtained in writing from the New School Archives and Special Collections. Please contact: archivist@newschool.edu.
Historical note
Speaking of Music, and Other Things was a special lecture series held at The New School in the Fall 1990, Spring 1991 and Fall 1991 semesters. The events consisted of conversations between concert promoter and technician Daniel "Danny" Kapilian and a series of musicians, and also included a screening of a recorded live performance by the guest and a short question-and-answer session. Advertised musical guests included David Byrne, Marianne Faithful, Lou Reed, Suzanne Vega, Miles Davis, and the band Living Colour. Kapilian had earlier taught a small number of music history classes at The New School, focused on the history of rock music.
Sources:
The New School (1990). New School Bulletin 1990 Fall Vol. 48 No. 2 [course catalog]. New School Course Catalog Collection. New School Archives and Special Collections. https://digital.archives.newschool.edu/index.php/Detail/objects/NS050101_ns1990fa
The New School (1991). New School Bulletin 1991 Spring Vol. 48 No. 5 [course catalog]. New School Course Catalog Collection. New School Archives and Special Collections. https://digital.archives.newschool.edu/index.php/Detail/objects/NS050101_ns1991sp
The New School (1991). New School Bulletin 1991 Fall Vol. 49 No. 2 [course catalog]. New School Course Catalog Collection. New School Archives and Special Collections. https://digital.archives.newschool.edu/index.php/Detail/objects/NS050101_ns1991fa
Danny Kapilian. Danny Kapilian Presents. Accessed July 9, 2024. http://kapilian.com/complete3.html
Arrangement
Arranged in chronological order.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The staff of The New School Archives and Special Collections assembled this collection from a larger set of legacy recordings transferred from The New School's Raymond Fogelman Library following the establishment of The New School Archives, circa 2012.
Processing Information
New School Archives staff based all description in this finding aid on course catalog text and audiocassette container inscriptions. Staff did not listen to the tapes to verify content.
- Audiocassettes (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Interviews (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Musicians (Occupation) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Musicians -- United States -- Interviews (Subject) (Places) (Type of Material) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Popular music (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
- Sound recordings (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Title
- Guide to the Speaking of Music, and Other Things event recordings
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Jack Wells, Jason Adamo and Jenny Swadosh
- Date
- January 3, 2025
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin