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Kirk Franklin, “king” of urban Gospel music, joins greats in the oral history collection

April 30, 2025
The Oral History of American Music (OHAM) collection adds a video interview with acclaimed artist, songwriter, and producer Kirk Franklin to the growing collection.
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Pianist-composer Abdullah Ibrahim joins OHAM’s collection of major figures in American music

November 13, 2024
Acclaimed musician Abdullah Ibrahim is among the 1,700 greats whose interview is in OHAM‘s Major Figures in American Music collection.

Library adds three more gospel legends to its collection of oral history interviews

May 13, 2024
Oral history interviews with gospel stars Lady Tramaine Hawkins, Richard Smallwood, and BeBe Winans join 3,000 others in Gilmore Music Library collection.
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Yale Library acquires historic video interviews with leading musicians

April 1, 2024
More than 250 interviews recorded for NewMusicBox between 1999 and 2020 will be digitized and made freely avaialable to researchers
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From 80 to 54,000: Streaming access skyrockets visits to the OHAM collection

September 6, 2023
In the past year, online visitors have streamed the library’s OHAM materials at the rate of approximately1,500 streams each month.
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Clark Sisters add their stories to library’s collection of interviews with gospel greats

April 14, 2023
The First Ladies of Gospel add their voices to the Oral History of American Music Collection and the interdisciplinary program Music and the Black Church.
Colorized photograph of two men looking at camera. One on left wears blue satin suit with white shirt and blue satin tie sitting on a simple white couch with one arm draped across the back support and the other hand at his chin. He has dark short curly hair and a goatee. The other has short cropped hair, plastic rimmed glasses and green shirt with brown shoulder patches. He rests his chin on both hands. There's a silver linked bracelet on his right wrist.

New voices added to Yale Library's collection of music oral histories

November 8, 2022
Two gospel artists—Donald Lawrence and Vincent Bohanan—will be filmed in interviews this month.
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