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Wedding purse

Description: Uzbekistan Wedding bag/purse of black cotton cloth. Rectangular, opens at narrow end, with triangular flap. Edge with white beading. Three compartments, one full-length and two half-length. All-over embroidery in lengthwise bands of green lines, red, orange, blue and green curves. Lined in black linen. 4" wide x 9 ½long with flap open. No labels or tags.
Date: 1950/2010
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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[Beah Richards dialogue at the Clarence Muse Café Theatre]

Description: Audio cassette from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during a session with Beah Richards at the Clarence Muse Café Theatre. The tape includes one track of well recorded audio of Richards engaging with an audience on the topic of education. The 2nd half of the track includes audio of a man singing.
Date: unknown
Duration: 6 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Richards, Beah
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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["Blackbird Revisited by C.B Jackson]

Description: Audio cassette from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their a concert that featured an orchestra/band that was accompanied by a male singer. The tape includes one track of well recorded audio that allows the voice and instruments to be well balanced.
Date: unknown
Duration: 36 minutes 50 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Church hymns and sermon]

Description: Audio cassette from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during a church service including a choir singing hymns and a sermon. The tape includes two tracks of generally distorted audio. The first track records music and the second a women speaking.
Date: unknown
Duration: 42 minutes 23 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Concert with a gospel choir]

Description: Audio cassette from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their a concert featuring a large gospel choir. The tape includes two tracks of very similar audio that lacks presence and is generally intelligible.
Date: unknown
Duration: 49 minutes 11 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Covers of classic songs such as "Over the Rainbow" and "What a Wonderful World"]

Description: Audio cassette from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during an event with male singers singing classic hit songs such as "Over the Rainbow" and "What A Wonderful World". The tape includes two track of well recorded audio of various male singers accompanied by musicians. The tape is labeled "From Daddy with Love".
Date: unknown
Duration: 40 minutes 48 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Dr. Roger Buffalohead from the University of Minnesota dialogue]

Description: Audio tape from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during a dialogue with Ponca tribe member and director of the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Minnesota Dr. Roger Buffalohead. The tape includes on track of audio that is well recorded. Bufflohead speaks in narrative anecdotes for half the tape paired with a guitarist performing intermitly.
Date: unknown
Duration: 20 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Buffalohead, Doctor Roger
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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["Drama Literature, Side 5 and Side 6"]

Description: Audio cassette from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during a theatre performance at an unknown date. The performance opens with clapping and the actresses introducing their characters. The tape includes two sides of audio that are both poorly recorded with the voices being heard but words being difficult to be understood.
Date: unknown
Duration: 1 hour 33 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Ensemble - Nubian Traditional Ensemble

Description: Nubian Ensemble. A) Jirjara robe (Nubian-style young woman's galabeya) of sheer black machine made lace with floral pattern woven into the lace. Full-length, with rounded neckline. Wide rounded, almost boat-neckline edged with row of large, spaced golden discs. A second row of gold discs runs slightly lower across upper chest. Long sleeves with slight cuffs. Dropped waist with wide horizontal pin-tucks. Skirt gathered into sewn band just below bottom pin-tuck. B) Under-dress of blue … more
Date: 1970/2010
Creator: Nubian Peoples
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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["Feet Don't Fail Me Now" jazz demo]

Description: Audio cassette from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during a demo recording of "Feet Don't Fail Me Now". The tape includes two tracks of well recorded audio of a jazz band performing various numbers with no vocalist.
Date: unknown
Duration: 59 minutes 09 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Female gospel singer performing with a choir audio tape]

Description: Audio cassette from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during a concert featuring a female gospel singer accompanied by a keyboard and a large choir. The tape includes one track of audio that is well recorded. The tape concludes with clapping and applauses.
Date: unknown
Duration: 12 minutes 22 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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["God is Good All the Time" mastered song track]

Description: Audio cassette from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded at Top Line Entertainment by Stan Sanders of "God is Good All the Time". The track is performed and written Rodney McCarty and O.T. Williams. The tape includes two tracks of audio that are duplicates of each other.
Date: [1970..2010]
Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Sanders, Stan; Top of Line Entertainment; McCarty, Rodney & Williams, O.T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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["How to Use the Library: An Introduction" educational video]

Description: Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded for the Wilson Video Resource Collection as educational content on how to use the library and introduction. The footage shows a research librarian assisting students with various projects by directing them to the best resources for their information along with narration.
Date: unknown
Duration: 19 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: H.W. Wilson Company
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Jazz band concert tape with song names]

Description: Audio tape from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during a live jazz band concert held at an unknown date. The tape includes one track of well recorded audio. The tape is labeled with "War Song/ Shingo/ Stone Soul/Viviatararo/Head and Tails/Traces/Hang em High/Stagolee/Soul Limbo/Jukebox Love Song."
Date: unknown
Duration: 16 minutes 52 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Jazz singer Letta Mbulu song tracks]

Description: Audio cassette from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during a session with South African jazz singer Letta Mbulu. The tape includes two tracks of well recorded audio of four song tracks from the same album released in 1978. Track 1 includes "Open Up Your Heart" "Buza" and "I Need You/ Baile Baneso". Track two includes "I Can Depend on You/Hareje/Mamani".
Date: unknown
Duration: 32 minutes 07 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[JBAAL drummers, gospel and theatre performance]

Description: Audio tape from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their a live variety performance inlcuding a traditional drumming group with vocalists, a gospel choir and a black theatre concert piece. The tape includes one track of well recorded audio. The identifiable audio includes the drummers repeating the word "Shango" the gospel choir singing "Oh Lord, Come Here", "Old Landmark", and "You'll Never Walk Alone".
Date: unknown
Duration: 31 minutes 16 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[JBAAL flutist performing Amazing Grace]

Description: Audio tape from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their a concert event with gospel singers and musicians. Most notably is a solo flutist performing a rendition of Amazing Grace around the 14:45 minute mark. The tape includes one track of well recorded audio. The tape is labeled "Prologue/ Wholly Holy/Forced March/Christo Redentor...., 1 of 3".
Date: unknown
Duration: 25 minutes 02 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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